Two services: a takeoff you price yourself, or an estimate priced from your supplier multipliers. Done by working Division 08 estimators, with flat pricing by opening count. Your first job is free up to 25 openings.
Choose a takeoff if you price the job yourself, or an estimate if you want it priced. Introductory pricing, and you know the cost before we start.
Every opening counted, detailed and grouped by hardware set, with the questions the documents leave open. List prices where we hold the price book. Your multipliers are not applied.
The takeoff, priced from your supplier multipliers, with a hardware schedule and a draft proposal for your letterhead.
First job free. A company's first job is on us, up to 25 openings, so you can check the work against your own before you pay for any.
What an estimate needs. Your supplier multipliers or price sheets. Without them we can count and group the job, but not price it, so we deliver a takeoff.
Over 150 openings. Send the set and we will quote a fixed price the same business day.
Four steps, and nothing starts until you have agreed to the price and the date.
Fill in the form below, choose a takeoff or an estimate, and upload the drawings and specifications or paste a link. For an estimate, add your supplier multipliers.
We reply by email with the opening count, the price and the delivery date, usually the same business day.
Payment is by an emailed link, card or bank transfer, before work starts. The free first job skips this step.
Typically within 48 hours of confirmation: every opening counted and grouped by hardware set and, for an estimate, the pricing and a proposal ready for your letterhead.
Who we are. Astragal is built and run by the estimators at Quantum Entry Systems, a Division 08 supplier in Texas. We never bid a project a client sends us. If we are already bidding it, we will tell you and decline the job.
Your documents stay yours. Drawings, multipliers, pricing and proposals are kept confidential and are not shared with anyone.
One workbook, organized in tabs, so your estimator can check it against the drawings and price it without re-counting.
Openings. Every opening by door number, with size, type, material, rating, handing and the hardware set it belongs to.
Doors. Hollow metal and wood doors with what a detailer looks for: gauge or species, core, face, fire rating, lite and louver cutouts, hardware preps and handing.
Frames. Grouped by profile, gauge, jamb depth, anchor type, rating and hardware preps, so they can go straight to a quote request.
Hardware sets. Each set listed by door number, with quantities for every item in the set.
Quantities and list prices. One roll-up of every item across the job. Where we hold the manufacturer's current price book, each line carries its catalog number and list price.
RFI log. The questions the documents leave open, each tied to a door number and a sheet or spec section.
Assumptions and exclusions. What we carried where the documents were silent, and what is not in the count.
The things estimators ask before they send the first job.
The drawings and specifications you are bidding from: the door schedule, floor plans, hardware specification and any addenda. Upload PDFs with the form, or paste a link for large sets.
Anything the documents leave out or get wrong: missing or conflicting sizes, ratings that differ between the plan and the schedule, hardware sets that are not assigned, finishes, and keying. It also covers the code items we notice while counting, such as exits scheduled without exit devices, fire-rated openings, accessible clear widths and hardware, and electrified openings with no power shown.
The codes and standards the project documents name. On most United States projects that means the International Building Code, NFPA 80 and NFPA 101, the ADA Standards and ICC A117.1, plus the state or local amendments the documents cite. We flag what looks wrong and write it up as an RFI. The architect and the authority having jurisdiction make the final call.
No. It is an estimator's review of the openings, written so the questions get asked before bid day and not after the frames are set.
A takeoff is the count, detailed and grouped, with list prices where we hold the price book. An estimate is the same takeoff taken to your cost using your supplier multipliers, with a hardware schedule and a draft proposal for your letterhead.
Enough to order from. Each door carries its size, material, gauge or species, core, rating, cutouts, hardware preps and handing. Each frame carries its profile, gauge, jamb depth, anchors and rating. If the documents do not give a detail, it goes on the RFI log with what we carried.
Where we hold the manufacturer's current price book, yes. Each line shows the catalog number and list price, so your number is one multiplier away. If we do not have the book for a line on your job, we will ask you for it or for a link.
Your supplier multipliers or price sheets for the lines on the job. They are used only for your work and are kept confidential. Without them we deliver a takeoff.
Typically within 48 hours of our confirmation. For large sets we give you a delivery date with the price before we start.
Send them with the job or as they arrive. We will tell you whether an addendum changes the count, and whether it changes the price, before we do the work.
No. Astragal is built and run by the estimators at Quantum Entry Systems, a Division 08 supplier in Texas. We never bid a project a client sends us, and if we are already bidding it we will tell you and decline the job.
By an emailed payment link, card or bank transfer, after you approve the price and before work starts. A company's first job is free, up to 25 openings.
Commercial, multifamily and residential projects anywhere in the United States.
Tell us about the project and attach the drawings. For large sets, a Dropbox, BuildingConnected or Procore link works better than an upload.
Prefer email? Send the project name, bid date and a link to the drawings to hello@getastragal.com.