Drywall Estimate & Takeoff Template

Drywall takeoffs die by a thousand small quantities. The sheet count is easy; the screws, mud, and tape get guessed, the waste gets forgotten, and hang and finish labor get lumped into one rate even though they run at very different speeds. The result is a bid that looks fine on paper and loses on the finish.

This workbook does the quantity work for you on one Estimate sheet. Enter wall and ceiling square footage and a waste percentage (default 10%), choose your sheet size (32 square feet for 4x8, 48 for 4x12), and it rounds up to whole sheets. From board area it auto-fills the consumables with standard rules of thumb: screws at about one pound per two sheets, joint compound at one box per 450 square feet, and tape at one roll per 1,500 square feet. Corner bead is a count you enter, misc items (mesh, sandpaper, adhesive) are a lump sum, and sales tax is applied to the materials subtotal. Labor is split the way the trade works: a hang rate (default 150 square feet per hour) and a finish rate to level 4 (default 100 square feet per hour), each producing hours that are multiplied by your burdened labor rate. The pricing block applies your markup (default 20%) to total direct cost and reports bid price, gross profit, and gross margin. A Price Book sheet lists 12 drywall line items (hang 1/2 inch and 5/8 inch fire-rated, finish to level 4 and level 5, ceilings, patch and repair, corner bead, knockdown and orange peel texture, soundproofing board, access panels, haul and dispose) with blank unit-price cells, and a Read Me sheet covers the four steps. 22 formulas across 3 sheets, the most complete of the three KlipPack trade templates, no macros.

First 15 minutes: enter the board area from your last job, pick your sheet size, and compare the sheet, screw, mud, and tape counts with what you actually bought. Then set your hang and finish rates from that job's hours and the bid will reflect your crew, not a textbook.