01
Take-off
Leaders, tags, scale, storey height. Count the symbol, not the label. Every quantity still tied to a sheet.
Take-off for UK MEP contractors
Upload the set.
Get a checked take-off,
a BoM, and a price.
Every quantity still tied to a sheet. Your rates, not a pasted lump. Excel out the door — because that is still what the QS opens at eleven.
Talk to us
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02
Bill of materials
Stable item IDs across floors. Pipe, tray, terminals — exploded with waste, hangers, lagging and expendables.
03
Price
Your rate book. Your labour hours. Yellow cells you own. Floors look them up and return a live estimate — materials, labour, job total. Nothing pasted.
04
Ask the drawings
Type a question against this job. Where is condensate priced? Why is that AHU zero? What changed on the revision? The answer cites the sheet.
How a bid night runs
Count from the drawing. Price from your rate book. Issue a workbook the QS already knows how to open.
The take-off is not a lump. Every line has an ID, a quantity, a unit and how it was measured. Change a yellow cell on the rate book and every floor — and the job total — moves with it. That is the company: one inventory, one rate book, nothing pasted.
1
Upload the drawings
The PDF set and the spec, from Drive. Title block wins over the filename. Scale, paper size, revision, what the sheet is actually for.
2
Review the leaders
Every call-out is boxed on the sheet with a confidence score. You accept, split or reject. Tag gaps stay as allowances.
3
Apply your rates
One material book, one labour book. Item IDs join by formula — nothing pasted. Change a yellow cell, the money moves.
4
Read the estimate
Each floor totals materials and labour. The job total sits at the bottom. Average and premium sit side by side so you can see the spread.
5
Issue the pack
Workbook they would send a supplier, with the price on it. PDF of the headlines. Email back into the same thread.
- A leader is not a pipe. Typical-detail labels are not extra units.
- Sheet title is the filter. An AHU on a cooling drawing is visible, not priced.
- Passing risers are counted once for the building. Floors do not each buy the stack.
What leaves the door
A floor tab that already looks like your inventory.
Hotel H&C · second floor · 1:50 @ A1
| Item ID | Description | Qty | Unit | Measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HC-FCU-WALL | Wall VRF indoor units | 31 | no. | Printed tags |
| HC-HBC | HBC boxes this storey | 2 | no. | Printed |
| HC-REF-B01 | Refrigerant, HBC to rooms | 875 | m | Geometry |
| HC-TRAY-400 | 400 mm containment tray | 60 | m | Scaled spine |
| HC-COND-D01 | FCU condensate (not drawn) | 155 | m | Specified |
| HC-LAG-CU | Class O lagging, copper only | 1050 | m | By diameter |
Measurement type is required: printed, scaled, geometry, vertical, or specified-not-drawn. Condensate that is not on the HVAC sheet stays amber until drainage confirms it. Those quantities then join the rate book — each floor gets a materials total, a labour total, and a job total. Rates are not typed into this table.
The estimate
Your rates. Your rules. A number you can defend at the table.
Riser does not publish a price list for itself. The estimate is the job: this drawing set, this spec, this rate book. Custom because your labour is not the next contractor’s, and because a hotel VRF package is not a generic take-off.
Your rules
- Material rates in one book, labour hours in another. Yellow cells you own — change a rate, every floor moves.
- Waste, hanger centres, lagging by diameter, storey height: written once, applied everywhere. Not re-guessed on the ninth floor.
- The sheet title is a rule. A cooling drawing does not price the AHU. Passing risers are bought once for the building.
- If it is not on the drawing and not in the spec, it stays an allowance — amber — until you say otherwise.
What you issue
- Every inventory line extended from the rate book by item ID. No pasted money.
- Floor totals: materials, labour, that storey.
- Job total at the bottom. Average and premium side by side so the spread is visible before the meeting.
- The same workbook the QS already knows how to open. That is the estimate you issue, not a screenshot.
Built for
- UK mechanical / AC contractors bidding Stage 3–4 packages
- Specialist estimators who still live in Drive and a workbook
- Hotel, residential and commercial VRF / HBC jobs
Not first
- Architects, BIM coordinators, main-contractor planners
- National desks already locked into Ensign or Luckins
- Anyone who wants a copilot instead of a checked BoM
Get in touch
Send a live tender set. We will tell you what Riser would count — and what it would refuse to invent.
Opening with UK mechanical estimators. The product app is next. Until then, the inbox is the door.