Plumbing, electrical, and HVAC takeoffs,
right on the plan.

Count fixtures and devices, measure pipe, conduit, and duct, and hand a bid-ready takeoff to your pricing app. Nothing to install, works offline, even on a tablet or phone in the field.

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CountTooling in use: a plumbing takeoff on a restaurant plan, the fixtures counted and the cold and hot water traced over the sheet's own lines, with the tallies and hanger rows in the sidebar.

Your trade, in the app

Plumbing, surface by surface

Six things the app does for a plumbing estimator, shown on the restaurant sheet.

A fixture in three picks, spelled the same every time.Size, type, material. The name, the symbol and the colour follow the picks, so the count exports clean and matches across sheets.
Hangers count themselves, cited to the code.Name a pipe run and the rulebook offers the hanger rule: copper, horizontal, 2 in, one per 10 ft, IPC 308.5. Accept it once and every run carries its hangers.
The riser is in the footage.Give a run its rise or drop at either end and the vertical is added to the feet. Here, 3 ft down to the meter, so the take-off matches what gets installed.
Prove the scale before you count.Click both ends of a printed dimension and type it. Here 31'-8" reads within 0.1%; a mis-scaled sheet is caught before it costs a bid.
A bid check that fills itself in.Hangers on every supported run is computed from the runs and cites IPC 308.5. The rest is your shop's checklist, kept with the drawing.
One click into PipeTooling.Copy for PipeTooling puts the counts and the feet on the clipboard as columns, 7 counts and 2 line types here, with a view link once the project is saved.

Electrical, surface by surface

Six things the app does for an electrical estimator, shown on the office sheet.

Devices arrive with their mount height.A duplex receptacle at 18 in AFF is a profile default, so the drop to every box is in the run before you draw it.
Chain device to device; the run draws itself.Pick a counter and a line type, then click device to device. Every click writes its drop and the EMT footage grows with it.
List the wire once; every run carries it.3/4 in EMT with 2 #12 THHN + 1 #12 THHN ground on the line type, one 120 V circuit. Three conductors ride every run, and a homerun toggle marks the run to the panel.
Wire that cannot drift from the conduit.#12 THHN is derived from the runs, not marked separately: circuit 11's 5 lines and 59.49 ft of EMT become 118.98 ft of wire plus 59.49 ft of green, every time.
Conduit fill and voltage drop, checked on the plan.NEC Chapter 9 fill (7.5%) and NEC 210.19 voltage drop to the farthest device on each circuit (1.3%, 1.5% and 0.3% at 120 V) compute from the runs. Devices no run reaches are flagged, not hidden.
Open in TakeoffTooling for assemblies and pricing.One click carries the counts and conduit into the estimate, 14 rows here, and an open Bid Check item travels with it so nothing is priced unchecked.

HVAC, surface by surface

Six things the app does for a sheet-metal estimator, shown on the office sheet.

A diffuser that carries its CFM.A 12×12 supply diffuser at 150 CFM. The air is on the count, so the rooms and the mains can be checked against it.
Box a room; get the air it needs.The plan names the room, you give the ceiling height, and it answers with 251 ft², 2,256 ft³ and a target of 376 CFM from the room type.
Trace the main and see the air still to serve.Each segment shows the CFM downstream, 2,400 here, and the size the friction rate suggests, 22 in round or 26×16, as you draw.
Press S; the size is one tap.Suggested round or rectangular, step-downs a click away, custom if the engineer said so. Weight per foot follows the size.
Straight duct by size and gauge; one bid weight.Gauge from a simplified SMACNA schedule, lb/ft cited to ASTM A653, the fittings you did not count, seam and waste. 244 ft of straight duct is 1,082 lb on this floor, on the way to one number for the bid.
Every room served, the system within capacity.Six rooms served, RTU-1 at 2,400 of 3,000 CFM, 19 flex drops within 6 ft, the deepest duct clearing a 36 in plenum. Computed from the take-off, cited by rule.

Three trades, one takeoff

Built for the way each trade reads a plan

The same counters, lines, and scale underneath. On top, the vocabulary and the math each trade actually bids with.

Plumbing

Fixtures, pipe, and the rows a bid needs.

  • Counters with real fixture symbols, 91 bundled or upload your own
  • Runs with rise and fall at each end, so risers are in the footage
  • Hangers offered from the rulebook by material and size
  • One click to PipeTooling with a view link back to the plan

Five-minute walkthroughGuide

Electrical

Devices, conduit, and homeruns with the code math done.

  • Devices with mount heights; chain a run device to device in one click each
  • Wire and cable derived from the raceway, never counted by hand
  • Circuits tagged to a real panel; NEC fill and voltage drop checked
  • Open in TakeoffTooling for assemblies, labor units, and pricing

Five-minute walkthroughGuide

HVAC

Rooms to airflow to duct to pounds.

  • Plan-and-spec or design-build: sizes read off the sheet's callouts, or from the rooms' CFM
  • Room boxes give ft² and ft³ with CFM by room type; diffusers and equipment carry theirs
  • Trace duct with size steps; elbows, transitions, and taps count themselves
  • Gauge from a simplified SMACNA schedule, cited by rule, and one Bid weight on the Duct Schedule

Five-minute walkthroughGuide

Numbers you can defend

Every figure shows its work

A wrong scale or a guessed code value ruins a bid.
Both are checked on the plan, in front of you.

The Set Scale dialog checking a preset against a printed 25-foot dimension and reporting the error in plain words.

Verify the scale before you trust it

Click a preset, then click both ends of any printed dimension. The check reads the error in plain words and repairs the scale with the measurement you just made. Scale zones handle the detail drawn at a different scale on the same sheet.

Bid Checkthis project · IPC 2021
Hangers, 2" copper, 1 per 10 ft§ IPC 308.5 · 17
Hangers, 1-1/4" copper hot, 1 per 6 ft§ IPC 308.5 · 28
Scale checked on the 31'-8" string✓ exact
Bid Checkthis project · NEC 2023
Voltage drop on the longest branch§ 210.19 FPN · 2.4%
Conduit fill, 3/4" EMT, 6 × #12§ Ch. 9 Tbl. 1 · 31%
Circuits on plan vs the panel schedule, LP-1✓ 7 of 42 poles
Bid Checkthis project · SMACNA
Every room served, 3 rooms boxed✓ 508 of 508 CFM
Systems within capacity, RTU-1✓ 600 of 2,000 CFM
Bid weight, 24×12 main stepping to 12×8§ gauge schedule · 174 lb

Rules cited by section, not by memory

Thirteen public trade rules from the NEC, IPC and UPC, and SMACNA, applied exactly as the app applies them and pinned to the code so a value cannot drift. Every derived row wears its citation; counts you clicked never do. Read the rulebook

Everything the takeoff needs, on the plan

Counts, lengths, scale, and reports, all on top of your PDF.

Count anything

Custom counters with your own icons, colors, and groups; live tallies as you click; child counts that add the fittings for you.

Measure runs

Straight lines, polylines, arcs, duct with size steps, and drops at either end, all read off the page scale in feet.

Big sets and repeats

Trim a 200-sheet set to the sheets you bid, multiply a typical floor by ten, and keep trades on separate layers per sheet.

Mark up and annotate

Highlights, notes, RFI flags, and a legend that prints with the sheet.

Report and export

Show Report, Export PDFs with markup and report bundled, and a Duct Schedule or summary you can paste anywhere.

Share and audit

One editor at a time, email-gated view links for a GC or inspector, and an access log you can read.

Estimating that doesn't need a desktop install

The established takeoff tools are heavy Windows software. CountTooling runs in the browser, at your desk or on a tablet in the field, and hands the takeoff to the pricing app your trade already uses.

No install

Runs in any modern browser; add it to the home screen if you like.

Works offline

Once a set is loaded, count and measure with no signal. Auto-saved every five seconds.

Works on a tablet

Pinch, pan, long-press, and an aim loupe for a fingertip.

Exports to pricing

Copy to PipeTooling, open in TakeoffTooling, or a summary for email.

For the shop, not the seat

See every estimator's takeoff, without touching it

An owner or a senior reviewer signs in and every bid in the company is on one board. Open any of them; change nothing. The rules that keep a team's work honest are already in the app.

The All Bids board: every bid in the company as a card, with search and an estimator filter, one click to open any of them read-only.

Every bid, one board

The Overseer role sees every bid in the company, newest first, with who made it, how much takeoff is on it, and when it was last touched. One click opens the takeoff exactly as the estimator left it, and nothing an overseer clicks can change it; that is enforced on the server, not just hidden in the interface. How the Overseer role works

Four rules a shop can run on

  • One editor at a time. A bid is checked out to edit and turned in when done; two people never overwrite each other's counts.
  • View links for a GC or an inspector, gated by email, that show the plan and the takeoff and never the workbench.
  • An access log you can read: who opened which bid, from where, and when.
  • Works on the tablet in the field and syncs when it reconnects, so the office sees what the field counted.

Guides for every role

What estimators say

"I needed less than 10min of training to be able to use every feature, and was able to generate 90% of takeoffs without having to call architects for clarifications."

Wendi Electrical

"I like how once I've drawn over a set of plans, with one click I can export them to my pricing app. I am really fast at generating takeoffs now."

William Plumbing

"It is so simple and does the job other $400/month software does. I look back and wonder why everyone is not using it."

Bryan, Master Electrician Electrical

"I am able to trust my team did not leave anything behind when they share plans with me and I can view and audit their counts."

Malachi, Plumbing Master Plumbing

Frequently asked questions

What trades is it for?

Plumbing, electrical, and HVAC. Counting fixtures, devices, diffusers, and equipment; measuring pipe, conduit, and duct; and the trade math on top: hangers, conductors and voltage drop, room airflow and duct weight.

Do I need to install anything?

No. CountTooling runs in any modern web browser, with nothing to download or update. You can optionally install it as an app for a home-screen icon.

Does it work offline?

Yes. Once a takeoff is loaded you can keep counting, measuring, and marking up with no connection. It auto-saves with local backups and syncs back up when you reconnect.

Can I export to my pricing software?

Yes. Copy a plumbing or HVAC takeoff straight into PipeTooling, open an electrical takeoff in TakeoffTooling, copy a summary for email, or export a marked-up PDF with the report included.

Does it work on a tablet?

Yes. Single-finger pan, pinch to zoom, long-press for the menu, and an aim loupe for precise placement with a finger.

How is it different from desktop estimating software?

It runs in the browser with nothing to install, works on any device and even offline, and exports into your pricing workflow, versus heavy Windows-only desktop tools.

How do I get access?

Accounts are set up for you. Call (512) 360-0599 and we'll get you started.

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