Plumbers quoting software is bought by a plumbing contractor who quotes rough-ins, repipes and remodels and wants the count, the price and the document out of one pass. The plumbing material list template is the count: fixtures and trim by the piece, pipe by the foot and size with waste, fittings, valves, hangers, the water heater or the pump, and the consumables. The plumbing bid template is the document a general contractor or a homeowner compares: scope, fixtures by model, exclusions and a total. The estimate template on this site prices the material list with waste, the hours at a loaded rate, subcontractors, overhead and markup, and prints the lines the bid carries.
The material list: counted in the units the supply house sells
Fixtures and trim by the piece and model, pipe by the foot per size and material with a waste allowance for cuts, fittings by the count per run, valves, stops and hangers, the water heater, the sump or the pump as items, and the solder, primer, cement and tape as consumables. The template lists them in the order the counter reads them, so the supply house's quote and the estimate's material line agree and a substitution at the counter is visible.
Hours per fixture and per run, at a loaded rate
Plumbing estimates run on the hours a fixture rough-in, a fixture set, a run or a water heater takes the company's own plumbers in that kind of building, recorded when jobs close. Price them at a loaded rate that carries taxes, insurance, the van and the apprentice; quoting software with a rate built from the wage under-prices every job by the burden. Subcontracted work, excavation or concrete cutting, goes in at the quoted price.
The bid template: scope, exclusions and one total
The plumbing bid template carries the scope by drawing reference or room, the fixture schedule by model, the exclusions numbered, fixtures by others, permits, patching, the total and the terms. It does not show the hours or the markup. Pro on this site keeps every estimate against the customer and the job with the material list it was priced from, so a change order is repriced from the count rather than negotiated from the total.
Questions people ask about plumbers quoting software
What does a plumbing material list template include?
Fixtures and trim, pipe by size and material with waste, fittings, valves, hangers, equipment such as the water heater, and consumables, in the order the supply house reads them.
Can plumbers quoting software price a remodel on site?
If it carries the company's own material prices and hours per fixture and per run; generic assemblies produce a quote that is someone else's and cannot be defended when the walls are open.
What should a plumbing bid exclude?
Whatever the drawings imply but the plumber is not pricing: fixtures supplied by others, permits if the general carries them, patching, excavation, and anything behind a wall nobody has seen.