A remodel estimate built from your own drawings
Send us your floor plans. We read the room areas, ceiling heights and schedules off the sheets, show you exactly what we measured, and price the work from that rather than from a typical house of the same size.
Upload your floor plans and schedules and we read the room areas, ceiling heights and fixture counts off the drawings, then price the work from those measurements instead of from a typical house of that size. You confirm what we measured before anything is priced. It takes a couple of minutes.
What is a plan-set estimate? A plan-set estimate is a remodeling budget built from your actual construction drawings. Rather than asking you to guess a square footage, we read what the architect printed on the sheets: room areas, plate heights, and the door, window and fixture schedules. The result is a planning range grounded in your house rather than an average one.
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Send your plans and get a range built from your own drawings
Upload the floor plans and any door, window or finish schedules. We read the room areas and dimensions, show you what we measured, and you correct it before anything is priced.
No contact details needed yet. A large set can take a couple of minutes to read.
Four steps, and you correct us before we price
- Step 1
Send the sheets we price from
Floor plans first, plus any door, window, finish or plumbing fixture schedules. A demolition plan helps on a remodel. You do not need to send the structural details, the foundation sections or the elevations - we do not price from those, and a full permit set is often too heavy to read in one go.
- Step 2
We read the drawings
We pull the room areas where the drafting office printed them, the plate heights where the sections state them, and the counts from the schedules. Every measurement is tagged with where it came from. Anything we could not read comes back empty rather than guessed at.
- Step 3
You confirm what we measured
You see the room list and the total before we price anything. Take out what is not part of the project, and tell us the finished square footage of the home. That number is how we catch a misread, so it is the one thing we always ask for.
- Step 4
You get a planning range
Priced from your measurements at current Treasure Valley costs, with what we used spelled out. If the drawings did not carry enough measurement to price from directly, we say so plainly and build the range from the area you gave us instead.
We use what is printed, and nothing else
What we measure
- Room areas where they are tagged on the floor plans, for example "Kitchen 303 SF"
- Ceiling and plate heights stated on the sections
- Door and window schedules, including the rough opening sizes called out inline
- Plumbing fixture and finish schedules where the set includes them
- Which rooms are existing to remain and which are in the new work, on a remodel
What we will not guess at
- Anything measured against a scale bar. A misread scale produces numbers that look consistent and are completely wrong, and nothing downstream can catch it.
- Room sizes we had to infer from an untagged plan. If the area is not printed, we leave it empty and tell you which rooms they were.
- The overall building dimensions. What is printed is a chain of dimensions rather than an outline, so an area cannot be recovered from it reliably.
A tight number built on a measurement we got wrong is worse than a wide one, because you can plan around a wide range and you cannot recover from a precise figure that is wrong. So a measurement only narrows your price when it was printed on the sheet and we can quote it back to you. Everything else stays as wide as it would have been with no plans at all, and we tell you which is which.
What people ask before sending their plans
Which sheets should I send?
The floor plans and any schedules - door, window, finish, or plumbing fixture. On a remodel, add the demolition plan if you have one. Those are the sheets a price comes off. Structural details, foundation sections and elevations do not change the number and make the file harder to read.
Why do you ask for the total square footage if you are reading my plans?
Because it is how we check ourselves. Adding up the room areas and comparing them against a stated total is what catches a misread tag before it reaches your price. Most residential sets never state a total anywhere, and it cannot be recovered from the dimension strings, so we ask you. You know it, and it is genuinely independent of our read.
What if my drawings do not label room sizes?
Some drafting offices tag every room with its square footage and some tag none. If yours do not, we will tell you which rooms came back empty and price from the total area you give us instead. You still get a planning range, we are just honest that it is not built off the drawings.
My plan set is a large file and it will not upload. What now?
Send the floor plans and schedules on their own rather than the whole set. Large-format drawings are much heavier to process than their file size suggests, so a five-sheet architectural set can be harder to read than a twenty-sheet scan. The sheets we price from are usually only a handful of pages.
Is this a quote?
No. It is a planning range, built from current Treasure Valley costs for a project like yours. Conditions we cannot see from a drawing will move the number: existing wiring and plumbing behind walls, site access, hidden damage, engineering, and what the permit office asks for. You get a firm number after a walkthrough and a defined scope.
Do I need permit-ready drawings, or will schematic plans do?
Schematic design plans are fine, and often read better than a full permit set because they are architectural rather than structural. What matters is that the floor plans are there and readable, not what stage the set is at.
Do you keep my drawings?
They are stored with your enquiry and sent to our estimating team so we can review them by hand alongside the automatic read. We do not share them outside the company.
What does this cost?
Nothing. The estimate and the review are free, and there is no obligation. We ask for contact details only at the last step, after you have seen and corrected what we read.
Send the floor plans and see a real number
Free, no obligation, and no contact details until after you have seen what we read. If you would rather talk it through first, call (208) 477-1169.
Planning ranges are built from current Treasure Valley costs and the measurements on your drawings. They are not quotes. A firm price follows an on-site evaluation and a defined scope of work.
No drawings yet? The online estimator prices from a few questions instead, and the Boise remodeling cost guide covers what projects run in the Treasure Valley. Buying or selling and working from an inspection list instead? That is RE-10 and inspection repairs. For the work itself, see whole-home remodeling and room additions.