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Send us your drawings. You get back a complete natural-stone package: measured quantities, yield and waste by material, tonnage and container count, ASTM-backed spec sheets, and supplier-ready RFQs. Not a guess from a spreadsheet. A buildable plan from the people who source, fabricate and ship the stone.
Generic estimators measure drawings. We measure them as the supply chain, so every quantity is one you can actually buy.
Why our numbers are different
Every estimating service out there gives you a number. We give you a number you can buy, fabricate and ship, because we live inside the supply chain: we source the blocks, oversee fabrication at the partner workshops, and manage the export ourselves. The hard part of stone is not counting tiles. It is reading what the design actually wants, calling whole block, block slices or slabs and where to buy, and knowing whether the piece can even be made as drawn. That is the part a spreadsheet cannot see.
What you get
Send the drawings once. You get both the calls that move the money, the real stone, the buy decision, what can and cannot be made, and the buildable package behind them, every figure traced to its source and flagged certain or to-confirm.
Deliverable 01
We read the material off your reference photo or spec, because the name on a drawing is often wrong: a quartzite that is really a granite, a travertine that is really a marble. Then we qualify it for where it lives and re-source it if it will not survive outdoors.
Deliverable 02
The buy decision that sets the cost. Custom pieces come off block slices or small slabs at a fraction of a large slab, with almost no waste, and we call the fabrication method that protects the color as well as the budget. We read the yield risk and carry it for you.
Deliverable 03
Net and gross by named material, waste per stone and per vein match, tonnage and 20-ft container count, with port of destination and ocean plus inland freight split out.
Deliverable 04
White-label technical sheets referencing ASTM C97, C170, C99 and C880, ready to drop into your submittal.
Deliverable 05
Anonymous RFQ packs sent to the right Italian and Mediterranean quarries and block-holders, the ones we already buy from.
Deliverable 06
A split-face 12x24 that needs 4 cm to hold the face, a reveal cut deeper than the stone allows, a strip narrower than the pattern runs, plus your drawings reconciled against the BOQ. The problems flagged before they reach your jobsite.
The deliverable, not a description of it
An audit-trailed take-off and a submittal-ready spec sheet. Format samples below, anonymized. Your package carries your real materials and quantities.
| Item | Material | Net | Waste | Gross | Flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Floor tile | Material A | 312.0 | 12% | 349.4 | certain |
| Wall cladding | Material A | 188.5 | 15% | 216.8 | certain |
| Pool coping | Material B | 64 pc | 18% | 76 pc | confirm |
| Stair treads | Material B | 42 pc | 18% | 50 pc | certain |
| Property | Method | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Water absorption | ASTM C97 | 0.18% |
| Bulk density | ASTM C97 | 2,690 kg/m³ |
| Compressive strength | ASTM C170 | 131 MPa |
| Flexural strength | ASTM C880 | 14.2 MPa |
| Modulus of rupture | ASTM C99 | 15.6 MPa |
How it is priced
A fixed fee per package, turned around in 24 to 48 hours. Build with us and it comes back. We do not do it for free: a free number is worth what you paid for it, and you will find that out on site.
When you are ready to build, the same hands run the whole scope: sourcing, fabrication oversight, QC, crating and export. See the execution partnership.
Who it is for
Brokers, fabricators and contractors bidding high-end hospitality and residential in natural stone.
Questions
What the service is, what it costs, and what we need from you.
A stone take-off is a measured count of every stone element in a project, read from the drawings: quantities, dimensions, edges and finishes turned into a material list. Our take-off adds the real material read off the reference, the block-versus-slab buy decision, yield and waste by real material, and tonnage and 20-ft container count, so the numbers are ready to buy and ship, not just to bid.
A fixed fee per package, quoted on the drawings and turned around in 24 to 48 hours. The fee is credited back in full when you source the stone through us.
Typically 24 to 48 hours for a take-off package, depending on the complexity of the drawings.
Your drawings as PDF or CAD, the unit system, any finish or thickness intent, and a reference photo of the look if you have one. Every figure we return is flagged certain or to-confirm, so you know exactly what is measured and what still needs a decision.
Yes. White-label technical spec sheets referencing the relevant ASTM methods (C97, C170, C99, C880), ready to drop into your submittal package.
Yes. Anonymous RFQ packs to the right Italian and Mediterranean quarries and block-holders, because we already buy from them. You get real pricing on material you can actually source.
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