Plumbing takeoff from your plan PDF
Portravo reads the plumbing sheets and risers in your plan set, and the floor plans and fixture schedules beside them. Fixture counts are read two ways and compared before they reach you.
Plumbing takeoff runs on its own: it starts as soon as you pay.
On the upload page, pick Plumbing from the trade list.
- One trade
- $75 one project
- Whole job
- $149 every trade, one project
- Plans
- from $199 a month
What it reads off the drawings
- Plumbing sheets and the water, sanitary and gas risers.
- Pipe sizes and segment lengths printed on the diagrams, and printed total lengths.
- Floor plans, as a second count of the fixtures on each level.
- Fixture and equipment schedules: tankless or tank water heaters, washers and dishwashers.
What you get back
A list of lines. Each line has the item, the quantity and unit, the count on each sheet, and where on the sheet it was found. A Check these list comes with it: where the readings disagreed, what was not found on the plans, and what a price assumes.
Confirm a line and it is priced, with local material prices where your area has them and the source and date on each price. Add your own labor rates, then export Excel for you and a clean PDF for the customer.
Fixtureseach
Toilets, lavatories, kitchen sinks, tubs, showers, laundry sinks, washer boxes, hose bibbs, floor drains
Appliance hookupseach
Water heater, dishwasher, ice maker box, sump pump
Watereach and linear feet
Service entry, meter, treatment equipment, and water pipe by printed size
Drain, waste and venteach and linear feet
Cleanouts, roof vents, and DWV pipe by printed size
Fuel gaseach and linear feet
Gas meter, appliance connections, shutoff valves, and gas pipe by printed size
Sample output
No public plumbing sample is posted yet. The lines above are the kinds of lines this takeoff delivers, not results from a real plan.
To see what a finished takeoff looks like, the electrical sample shows a real, openly licensed house plan with every count marked on the drawing, the Check these list and the priced estimate. Every trade comes back as the same kind of line list, with its own Check these list.
What you check
There is no published accuracy figure for plumbing takeoff yet. Every line comes to you open for review, and nothing is priced until you confirm it.
- Where the floor plan and the riser disagree on a fixture count, the floor plan count is used and the riser count is shown for you to decide.
- Check that pipe lengths per size add up to the total printed on the riser.
- Look at any pipe size label the line marks as unclear.
What it does not do
- Pipe is not measured off a diagram drawn not to scale. Without printed lengths or a scaled plan, that pipe is listed as not found for you to fill in.
- No waste allowance is added to pipe. The length is the printed length.
- Lines with no safe price match stay unpriced until you price them.
Price and timing
- $75 for one trade on one project, or $149 for the whole job, every trade on one project. Two or more trades never cost more than the whole job.
- Monthly plans start at $199 for 5 takeoffs.
- Plumbing takeoff runs on its own: it starts as soon as you pay.
- If a run cannot finish, our team finishes it by hand or refunds you in full.
- Your first takeoff has a 14-day money-back guarantee. Terms