For drywall contractors
Software for drywall contractors
Take board and finish off the plan by the square foot, price corners, texture and specialty board as their own lines, then schedule the hang and invoice it.
Board is measured in bulk and argued about in the details
A drywall bid is one of the largest measurements on a plan set and one of the quickest to get wrong. Walls and ceilings are square feet, corner bead and soffits are feet, access panels are pieces, and then there are the parts that price differently: the Type X garage firewall, the wet-area board, the Level 5 in the entry, the knockdown on the ceilings.
Take it off in bulk and you win the job and lose the finish. Take it off in detail on paper and a bid costs you a day. Neither is a plan for bidding twenty units.
What you get
Built around how this trade actually works
Walls and ceilings by the square foot
Outline a surface, or trace a wall run and give it a height. Openings come off through deductions that are traced on the sheet, and every net quantity shows what came off it.
Specialty board priced as specialty board
Type X garage firewall, moisture-resistant board, cement backer, sound board and Level 5 skim are separate conditions with their own rates, not a percentage added at the end.
Corners, soffits and access panels
Metal corner bead and bullnose trace by the foot, soffits and chases by the foot, access panels and patches by the piece, all in the same estimate as the board.
Texture as its own line
Ceiling knockdown and wall orange peel price per square foot on their own conditions, so a texture change in the spec moves one number instead of every number.
Hang and finish scheduled as a span
Multi-day work draws as a span on the board, capacity is counted per day, and double bookings are flagged rather than blocked. Telling the crew is a button that stamps what plan they were told.
Commercial billing when you need it
For work billed on a schedule of values there is AIA-style progress billing with retainage held separately on work and stored materials: a module you turn on, not a tab you pay for and never open.
How it works
Start to finish
- 1
Switch the drywall catalog on
Drywall conditions are opt-in. One admin turns the trade on and the board, corner, texture and specialty sections appear.
- 2
Measure the set
Walls and ceilings by surface, corners and soffits by the foot, panels by the piece, across every sheet in the set, rolled up per sheet and per project.
- 3
Bid it itemised
From your own rates, as a document the builder can sign online, in one bid or one per condition when they want the phases priced apart.
- 4
Hang, document, invoice
Photos before the paint, changes priced before they are built, and an invoice on the same number the estimate carried.
Repeating the same measurement across twenty units
Multi-unit and light commercial work is where a drywall estimate is won or lost, because the same measurement repeats and any error repeats with it. A takeoff carries as many sheets as the set has, quantities roll up per sheet and across the project, and the estimate compiles into a single bid or one bid per condition when the builder wants each phase or building priced separately.
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The finish is where the money leaks, so it is measured rather than assumed: texture, Level 5, bead and soffit each carry their own quantity and their own rate, and the estimate shows the arithmetic on the line rather than a lump.
If the job bills on a schedule of values instead of one invoice, the progress billing module handles the G702/G703 pair properly: line 7 reads the prior application, retainage on work and materials is held separately, and an application whose schedule does not foot will not submit.
Common questions
- They are deducted deliberately. Deductions are conditions traced on the sheet, and each net quantity carries a note saying what came off it, so a builder asking why the number moved gets an answer instead of a recalculation.
See it on your own jobs.
A 20-minute walkthrough, on your real pipeline. No slide deck, no pressure.