A misc metals takeoff is slow for a reason. A stair isn't one line on a bid. It's stringers by flight, landings, pans, guardrail, handrail and connections, each with a size, a count, a cut length and a weight. Built Correct Steel does that work for you, assembly by assembly, fast and accurate, with every item clouded where it's drawn.

A week of counting, in an hour and a half

On one real 288-page drawing set, Steel delivered the full takeoff in about an hour and a half. By hand, a takeoff that size normally gets a week. That's where the time comes back.

Stair by stair

Here is Steel on a 26-sheet public bid package for a university building. It took the set off in about 23 minutes: 12 items and 14,361 lb, from the east and west stairs and a roof-access ship's ladder to elevator pit ladders and sump grating, screen-wall framing, embeds, and site stair rails and guards.

Steel's takeoff of a public bid set: each stair, ladder and elevator item with its pieces and weight, beside the stair drawing it came from, clouded where each item is drawn
The takeoff beside the stair sheet, A7.01: every item with its pieces and weight, clouded where it's drawn.

Item #1 is the east stair from the lower level to level 2: a 56-riser steel stair with 9 feet of guardrail and 140 feet of handrail, 4,839 lb in 31 pieces plus a buy-out. Open it and every piece is there, each stringer by flight with its size, count, cut length and weight.

Clouded where it's drawn

Every item is numbered and clouded on its sheets, on the plans and in the sections, so you see exactly what was taken off.

A stair plan with the east stair clouded and numbered #1
Plan, east stair, level 1: item #1 clouded on the sheet.

A buy list, not just a weight

Each size's pieces are nested into the stock lengths you buy, with the drop worked out. On this job that's 17,229 lb to buy for 14,361 lb of cut steel. Change a stock length and the buy weight follows. The Excel sheet has the same list.

The buy list: each size's pieces nested into stock lengths, with bars, buy weight and drop
The buy list: 17,229 lb in stock lengths, 14,361 lb cut and 2,868 lb drop.

Price it your way

Stairs come back as one assembly with everything on them, rails by the foot, bolts and anchors counted and priced, and grating as a buy-out. Change anything, then download the Excel price sheet with your own shop's rates, laid out the way a misc metals bid goes together.

Built by a steel estimator. Accuracy guaranteed.

Steel was built on real bids with an ironworker turned steel estimator who has more than 20 years in the trade. It's fast, it's accurate, and we guarantee its accuracy.

Come try it with us

Your first takeoff is a free demo with our team. Pick a time on our calendar, bring one of your bids, and see it for yourself on the call.

Built with perspective.
The Built Correct team.

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