Dimensions in. A defensible bid out.

Most estimating templates are a list of cost categories with a sum at the bottom — fine until someone asks where the number came from. This workbook is the other kind: a quantities-first estimate in the shape estimators actually defend. Six takeoff sheets turn plan dimensions into material quantities through formulas you can read out loud: footing LF × section ÷ 27 = CY, with your waste factor and a half-yard round-up; wall LF × 12 ÷ your stud spacing, plus the corner and opening studs you count yourself; drywall SF to sheets, mud, tape and screws at your coverages; plan area × pitch factor to squares and bundles; flooring and paint the same way. The Materials Summary prices every quantity at unit costs you enter, labor runs at your crew hours and burdened rates, and the Bid Recap stacks materials + labor + subs, then contingency, overhead and profit markup — your percentages — into a bid price, cost per conditioned SF, and the margin-on-price the markup actually produces. Change stud spacing from 16" to 24" o.c. and every stud count, the framing materials, the direct cost and the bid re-price while you watch. And the honest part, stated everywhere it matters: this ships with NO cost data. Every waste factor, coverage, spacing, rate and unit cost is a labeled green reference cell holding a clearly-marked example — your local numbers replace them, and your professional judgment governs.