Residential electrical estimating · Plans – Panel – Price
Residential electrical estimating software
Housewire builds your bid from the plan instead of a spreadsheet. Import the PDF plans, lay out the devices and circuits, and every device, box, plate, breaker, foot of NM-B and staple is counted and priced from your own price list, with your labor units, crew rates, overhead, markup and fees. Change the layout and the bid changes with it.
Bid from the plan
Counts come from what you drew, so nothing gets missed or counted twice.
Your prices
Import your supplier's price list as a CSV or type in your own costs once.
Your labor
Labor units per item, blended crew rates, monthly and percentage overhead.
By phase
Temp, rough-in, trim and service, per unit and combined for duplexes.
Wire you can trust
Wire lengths from routed homeruns, with drops to box height, slack and waste.
Proposals
Your logo and terms on a proposal, plus the material list for ordering.
Questions
More answers on the Housewire home page.
How does Housewire price a residential electrical bid?
It counts everything on your layout and prices it from your own price list, imported from a supplier CSV or entered by hand, then adds your labor units, crew rates, overhead, markup, tax and fees, broken out by temp, rough-in, trim and service.
Does it work for duplexes?
Yes. Each unit gets its own takeoff, panel, circuits and load calc, and the bid is shown per unit and combined for the building.
Start your free trial
Plans start at $99 a month for one user, with every feature in every plan and a 14-day free trial. Cancel any time.