You just got off the phone with a general contractor. There's a 40,000-square-foot commercial office buildout going to bid in four days. It's exactly the kind of work you've been chasing. But your estimator is buried in two residential projects, your project manager is juggling punch lists, and you don't have the bandwidth to put together a tight drywall estimating services package in time. So you pass. Again. That's not a capacity problem. That's a systems problem and it's costing you jobs. Contractors across the country are discovering that outsourcing drywall takeoff services in the USA isn't a shortcut. It's a smarter way to run a bidding operation. At Remarkable Estimating Services, we're a California-based estimating firm helping contractors in all 50 states win more bids by delivering fast, accurate, location-specific drywall estimates without adding headcount to your payroll. Here's what that actually looks like in practice, and why it changes everything about how you grow your business.
Drywall sounds simple until you're standing in front of a set of plans with a complex ceiling grid, multiple fire-rated assemblies, ACT transitions, and 14 different wall types across four floors. Suddenly "just count the square footage" doesn't cut it. Accurate drywall takeoff services require:
Miss any of these layers and you're either leaving money on the table or buying your way onto the job. A drywall estimator in California working on a high-rise in Los Angeles faces entirely different material and labor pricing than a contractor bidding a medical clinic in Houston or a school renovation in Chicago. Generic pricing doesn't win bids. Localized, defensible numbers do.
When you send your plans to Remarkable Estimating Services, here's what comes back not a ballpark, not a guess, but a fully itemized, review-ready estimate:
• Single-family and multifamily drywall scopes • Board and texture specifications by room type • Moisture-resistant assemblies for baths and utility rooms • Fire-rated assemblies at garages and between units • Level 4 and Level 5 finish specifications
• Full tenant improvement and core-and-shell scopes • Ceiling grid and suspension system takeoffs • Fire-rated corridor and shaft wall assemblies • ACT and drywall ceiling transitions • Specialty rooms: server rooms, clean rooms, medical suites
• Warehouse and distribution center office buildouts • High-humidity and chemical-resistant assembly specifications • Impact-resistant and abuse-resistant board applications • Blast-resistant and demising partition scopes • Large-footprint projects with repetitive bay structures
Let's be straight about the math. A mid-level drywall estimator in 2026 costs $70,000–$110,000 in salary alone. Add benefits (25–30% of salary), software licenses for PlanSwift or takeoff platforms ($1,500–$3,500/year), RSMeans subscriptions ($1,400+/year), and overhead allocation, and you're looking at $95,000–$145,000 annually before they produce a single takeoff.And here's the part that never shows up on a spreadsheet: what happens when they're backed up? You miss bids. You rush estimates. You submit numbers with errors that either lose you the job or win you a money-losing project both of which are expensive outcomes. For contractors bidding 80 to 250 projects a year, outsourcing typically delivers:• 50–65% reduction in estimating costs compared to fully-loaded in-house staff • 24–48 hour turnarounds on standard project scopes • Zero downtime cost you pay per project, not per hour they're waiting for plans • Scalability bid 3 projects this week and 12 next week without hiring anyone.
Remarkable Estimating Services operates out of California one of the most complex, code-intensive, and cost-variable construction markets in the country. California projects demand precision: strict fire-rating compliance, high labor costs, seismic considerations, and GCs who review every line item closely. That environment built our team's discipline. When you work in a market that doesn't tolerate sloppy estimates, you develop processes that produce accurate takeoffs regardless of project type or location. We apply that same rigor to projects in Texas, Florida, New York, Illinois, Arizona, the Pacific Northwest, the Southeast, and everywhere in between. Our estimators research local labor rates, material pricing, and code requirements for each project location so a contractor in Atlanta gets the same quality and precision as a contractor in Los Angeles. We've processed drywall takeoffs for:• Ground-up multifamily in Denver and Phoenix • Medical office tenant improvements in Chicago and Miami • Industrial buildouts in Houston and the Ohio River Valley • School and institutional work across the Southeast • High-end residential in New York and Southern California
If you've been passing on jobs because your estimating capacity can't keep up with your ambition, that ends now. Remarkable Estimating Services delivers drywall takeoff services in the USA built for contractors who want to bid more, win more, and grow without the overhead of a full-time estimating department. First-time clients receive 15% off their first three drywall takeoffs. Send us your plans today and see your estimate in 48 hours accurate, detailed, and ready to bid. Whether you're a drywall subcontractor, a general contractor self-performing interior work, or a developer managing multiple scopes, we're the team that makes your bidding operation faster, tighter, and more profitable.
Upload your plans, tell us your location and scope, and we'll have your numbers ready before your competition finishes reading the specs. Because the next opportunity that lands in your inbox shouldn't be the one you had to pass on
Phone: (424) 441-4101Email: Info@remarkableestimating.com