This is a free flooring estimate template with a full floor replacement already itemized: permits, tear-out, subfloor prep and leveling, underlayment and moisture barrier, material and install, then trim, transitions, and cleanup. Load it in the builder, delete what the job doesn't need, and put your rates on what's left. The rates ship blank on purpose: they're yours, and they change by market anyway.
A flooring installation estimate rarely dies on the material line. It dies under it: the self-leveling compound nobody measured for, the toilet that has to come off and go back on, the tack strips that take longer to pull than the carpet did. This template carries a line for each of those, plus a note to order material with a waste allowance, so the surprise happens while you're estimating instead of while you're invoicing.
Every section below loads into the builder exactly as listed. This is the actual checklist, not a preview of one. Delete what your job doesn’t need and price the rest.
Building permit, inspection fees, and mobilization: the lines that exist before the first board comes up.
Tear-out of the old floor, underlayment, baseboard, and tack strips, plus the toilet that has to come off and the furniture that has to go somewhere.
Inspection, repair by the sheet, re-screwing, self-leveling compound, grinding high spots, and a moisture test before anything gets glued down.
Vapor barrier, foam or cork underlayment, cement board, crack isolation membrane, and the seam tape that holds the system together.
Material by the square foot with a waste allowance, install labor, layout and pattern set, and the cuts around everything that isn't a rectangle.
Material and install quoted by finished floor area; order material with a waste/overage allowance.
Baseboard, shoe molding, transition strips, stair nosing, thresholds, and resetting the toilet on a fresh wax ring.
Haul-off, debris removal by the cubic yard, final clean and vacuum, furniture move-back, and site protection.
General conditions, a contingency allowance for whatever the subfloor is hiding, and supervision by the day.
Every phase of a full floor replacement is already in place: demolition, subfloor prep, underlayment, install, trim and transitions, cleanup. Delete what the job doesn't need, down to the stair nosing. Nothing gets forgotten because nothing was left to memory.
Put in your rates and what each line actually costs you. The live P&L updates as you type, so you know your margin before demo day, not after the subfloor gets an opinion.
Export a clean client estimate: prices, quantities, one total. The client copy is built without your costs, margins, or notes. Not hidden. Absent.
The full guide (units, tax math, deposits, exports) lives on the Help page. It’s genuinely thorough. We’re as surprised as you.
For the longer answer, there’s a guide: How to Write a Construction Estimate.
Eight sections that follow the job in order: permits and fees, demolition and removal, subfloor prep and leveling, underlayment and moisture barrier, flooring material and installation, trim and transitions, cleanup and disposal, and contingency and allowances. Inside them are the lines that quietly eat a day: detaching and resetting the toilet, the moisture test, pulling tack strips and staples. You delete what doesn't apply, which beats remembering what does.
Line by line, and the math is the same everywhere: rate times quantity, with a multiplier when you need one. Material and install labor go by the square foot, baseboard and shoe molding by the linear foot, transitions and thresholds each, mobilization and layout flat. What actually moves your number is usually under the finish floor: subfloor repair, leveling, and moisture work. Price those as their own lines and your margin stops depending on the subfloor's mood.
Both. The template ships with a contingency allowance line under contingency and allowances, plus a subfloor inspection and moisture test up front, so the allowance is a plan instead of an apology. At the document level you can add an overhead and profit fee as a percentage of the subtotal, a discount, and an informational deposit line. What you do about tax is between you and your accountant.
Yes. The whole builder works without an account, and every export works on the free plan: client PDF, Excel, CSV, and an internal budget export for your own records. Read-only share links carry a client-safe copy inside the link. A free account adds one cloud-saved estimate. Pro is a one-time purchase, not a subscription: your name and logo on client exports, no Estimatery footer, unlimited saves, and a Saved Items catalog for the line items you price on every job.
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