How do you estimate a wire run without having been on site?

From your own rules, read off your past quotes: the run you usually apply for adding a circuit in a bungalow is not a guess, it is a habit nobody had written down. When the request does not settle it, the quote flags it instead of choosing.

Permit and inspection change from one municipality to the next.

Those are grid rules like any other: by municipality, by type of work. You give them once, and they stop being forgotten on a Friday night.

Are journeyman and apprentice rates kept separate?

Yes, separately, because mixing the two is what makes a margin drift without anybody seeing where. Hours are split by category in the quote handed back.

What if I also do plumbing or HVAC?

Several grids by type of work, from tier 2 on. Whether you also do plumbing or HVAC, each trade keeps its own items, rates and rules, so an electrical quote never reaches for another trade's price.

Trade · electrical

Counting circuits should not take your whole evening.

An electrical quote is built circuit by circuit: the gauge, the run, the boxes, the fixtures, then the permit and the inspection. It is strict arithmetic, which makes it arithmetic you can hand off.

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Who this page is for, and who it is not for.

Yes, if

You price renovations and circuit additions several times a week.
Your journeyman and apprentice rates are known, and your material prices follow a steady supplier.
Your quotes look alike from one file to the next, give or take a run of wire.
You want the permit and the inspection to stop going missing from the total.

No, if

You do industrial work off scaled drawings: those quantities get read on the drawing, not in the request.
You only do service calls: a fault gets diagnosed on site, it does not get priced in advance.
Your material prices move every week and nobody keeps the list current.

What an electrical quote holds, item by item

The panel and the distribution
Panel capacity, breakers to add, grounding. This is the item that decides whether the rest of the file holds: adding circuits to a full panel changes the nature of the quote.
The circuits and the wire
Gauge per circuit, estimated run, boxes, outlets, switches, fixtures, conduit and supports. It is the most repetitive arithmetic in the trade, and the longest to type.
Labour, permit, inspection
Hours by journeyman and apprentice, travel, permit, inspection and certificate. Those items follow your fixed rules, and they are also the ones most often forgotten when the quote gets typed late.

What Le Métreur hands back on an electrical quote

06 deliverables

The circuits listedGauge, estimated run and destination, one per line.
The material countedBoxes, outlets, switches, fixtures, conduit, at your grid's quantities.
The panel assessedWhat gets added, and a flag when the capacity no longer covers it.
Hours split outJourneyman and apprentice separately, at the rates you really apply.
Permit and inspection carriedWritten into the quote when your grid covers them, rather than forgotten.
The draft replyWritten in your voice, sitting in your outbox.

A price that follows the volume, not the seat count

The question is not what a piece of software costs. It is what the person you would have to hire to do the estimating costs. In Quebec, a junior estimator runs close to $5,000 CAD a month once payroll costs are in.

Setup, one time$2,997

In Canadian dollars. Reading your price grid, connecting your inbox and your CRM, calibrating on the quotes you have already sent.

Tier 1
$697CAD per month
Up to 40 priced quotes a month.
- Detailed quote, draft reply and PDF
- CRM record
- Grid kept current
Tier 2recommended
$1,197CAD per month
Up to 120 priced quotes a month.
- Everything in tier 1
- Monthly variance report on the pricing
- Several grids, one per type of work
Tier 3
$1,897CAD per month
Past 120 priced quotes a month.
- Everything in tier 2
- Several inboxes
- Split across several estimators

Prices in Canadian dollars, taxes extra. We bill the volume handled, never a number of seats. The subscription can be cancelled at any time.

What electricians ask us

How do you estimate a wire run without having been on site?: From your own rules, read off your past quotes: the run you usually apply for adding a circuit in a bungalow is not a guess, it is a habit nobody had written down. When the request does not settle it, the quote flags it instead of choosing.
Permit and inspection change from one municipality to the next.: Those are grid rules like any other: by municipality, by type of work. You give them once, and they stop being forgotten on a Friday night.
Are journeyman and apprentice rates kept separate?: Yes, separately, because mixing the two is what makes a margin drift without anybody seeing where. Hours are split by category in the quote handed back.
What if I also do plumbing or HVAC?: Several grids by type of work, from tier 2 on. Whether you also do plumbing or HVAC, each trade keeps its own items, rates and rules, so an electrical quote never reaches for another trade's price.

Bring three electrical quotes you have already sent. We show you the gap.

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Twenty minutes, no commitment. You leave with the measured gap between your pricing and its own, even if we never work together.