Turn door schedules and PDF floor plans into detailed door estimates — counts, kinds, sizes, materials, hardware, installation labor, and replacement scope — editable on the plan, start to finish.
AI-assisted schedule extraction, door counts, kinds, materials, hardware, installation labor, and replacement scope — connected in one door estimating workflow.
ROOM TAKEOFF
Vega reads the door schedule when one is available, organizes doors by kind and material, applies product pricing, counts hardware and installation materials, calculates crew labor, and produces a reviewable estimate.
Upload the plans
Start with the plan set — floor plans carry door markers, and a door schedule page lists every opening with its mark, size, material, and hardware.
Read the schedule
Vega reads the door schedule when one is available — marks, counts, sizes, materials, cores, fire ratings, and hardware notes — the richest source on the plan set.
Organize by spec
Each door is resolved to a spec — kind, material, core, face, size, glazing, rating — and grouped with identical doors so the estimate buys each kind once.
Apply product pricing
Vega matches each door to a product — a generic baseline row or a manufacturer-specific SKU — so the unit price is a real product, not a multiplier.
Calculate hardware & materials
Hinges, locksets, deadbolts, closers, thresholds, weatherstrip, sill pans, flashing, shims, and fasteners are counted off each opening. Hardware is priced per door, not bundled.
Calculate crew labor
Installation labor is driven by door count, kind, size, prehung vs slab, and install method — priced at the crew's actual hourly rate, not a flat per-door dollar.
Produce the estimate
Reviewed quantities carry into a material and labor estimate and a client proposal — editable line by line, with overrides saved and defaults preserved.
AI-assisted extraction — the estimator reviews and edits every door on the canvas before pricing. Not a one-click automatic takeoff.
The door schedule is the richest source on the plan set. When Vega finds one, it reads the fields the schedule provides — and flags the ones it does not. Not every field exists on every plan.
Each door carries a unique mark (e.g. D1, D2) that keys it to the floor-plan marker.
The schedule lists every opening, so it is the count — not a sample or an estimate.
Width and height callouts — the rough opening or the nominal unit size — drive product matching and flashing.
Entry, swing, patio slider, bifold, pocket, barn, Dutch, accordion — the operation type sets the base labor.
Fiberglass, steel, wood, hollow or solid core — the material and core set the price class.
None, partial, or full glass — and tempered, decorative, divided-lite, or obscure where called out.
20, 45, 60, or 90-minute ratings — including the garage-to-house door, which is 20-minute self-closing per IRC R302.5.1.
Hinge type, lock function, closer, panic, kickplate — the schedule's own hardware annotations.
Vega uses what the schedule provides. Missing fields are flagged — not guessed. The estimator reviews and fills the gaps on the canvas.
Vega prioritizes the door schedule when one is available. When a usable schedule is not present, floor-plan door markers provide the fallback — each marker typed by kind and sized by width.
Schedule-first
The primary source
When a door schedule is read, every scheduled door is priced — with its stated size, kind, material, core, fire rating, and hardware. The schedule is the count, so it is the authority.
Floor-plan fallback
When no schedule is available
Without a schedule, each floor-plan marker is a door — typed by kind from the marker, sized by its width. The material, core, and face are the survey\'s assumptions, priced on a step of their own.
The two sources are not merged. When both exist and the counts differ, the schedule is priced and the difference is flagged for the estimator to resolve.
A bifold installs in a fraction of the time a patio slider takes. Vega distinguishes the door kinds a plan set calls out — and prices each as its own product, not a multiplier on a single base.
Entry
A single exterior entry door — fiberglass, steel, or wood.
Double Entry
A pair of exterior hinged doors — an active and an inactive leaf.
Interior Swing
The standard interior door — hollow or solid core, panel or flush.
Double Swing
A pair of interior hinged doors — double closet or French interior.
Patio Hinged
A full-glass exterior hinged pair — French patio doors.
Patio Slider
A sliding glass door — two offset panels on a track.
A door that slides into a wall pocket — frame kit and track included.
Bifold
A folding door on a track — single or double (48"+) wide.
Bypass
Two sliding panels on a track — closet doors, mirrored or plain.
Barn
A surface-mounted sliding door on exposed track and hardware.
Dutch
A hinged upper and lower panel — two pieces, one frame.
Accordion
A multi-panel folding partition — commercial or wide opening.
Overhead and garage doors are not part of this Doors estimating scope — they are not priced in this trade.
Vega estimates the full material and hardware scope — from the door unit to the last fastener — each priced as a real product, not a bundled tier.
Door units
Entry, interior, patio, and specialty doors — priced as real products, not a multiplier on a single base.
Frames
Prehung units include their frame; slab doors take a separate frame. Pocket doors take a frame kit; commercial rated doors take a rated frame.
Hinges
Residential 3.5" butts, commercial ball-bearing, and full-height continuous hinges — per leaf, per door.
Locksets
Passage, privacy, keyed entry, and commercial levers — one per door by function, resolved from the schedule or the room served.
Deadbolts
Single-cylinder, double-cylinder, multi-point, and smart-lock alternatives — on keyed entries.
Closers
Surface-mounted door closers — on rated doors, the garage-to-house door, and where the schedule calls for them.
Panic hardware
Rim and vertical panic exit devices — on commercial doors where the schedule requires them.
Kick plates
Screw-on kick plates — on commercial doors where the schedule calls for them.
Stops
One door stop per hinged leaf — sliding, folding, and pocket doors take none.
Flush bolts
Two manual flush bolts (top and bottom) on the inactive leaf of a pair — or one automatic / constant-latching set.
Thresholds
Standard and ADA thresholds — on exterior slab doors. Prehung exterior units include theirs.
Sweeps
Door-bottom sweeps — one per exterior slab leaf, for weatherseal.
Weatherstrip
One weatherstrip kit per exterior slab door — the first line of defense against air and water.
Sill pans
One sill pan per exterior opening — sliders and patio doors included.
Flashing tape
Self-adhered flashing tape on the sill and both jambs of every exterior opening — measured off each door.
Shims
Packs of shims — one per group of doors, for leveling and squaring the unit in the rough opening.
Foam
Cans of window-and-door foam — for air-sealing the gap between the unit and the rough opening.
Fasteners
Screws per opening set — the fasteners that secure the unit to the framing.
Manufacturer-specific products and product selections
Where matching data exists, the estimator can choose a manufacturer-specific product line — and each door is matched to the nearest-size product in that line. Examples include Masonite, JELD-WEN, Andersen, Schlage, Kwikset, Von Duprin, and LCN.
Product prices come from the supplier workbook — not live supplier quotes or real-time feeds. Confirm prices in the estimate before relying on them.
Door installation labor responds to the door count, the kind of each door, the size, whether it is prehung or slab, the applicable hardware, and the installation method — priced at the crew\'s actual hourly rate, not a flat per-door dollar.
Labor scales linearly with the number of doors — 30 doors take three times the install hours of 10, not three times the building area.
A bifold installs faster than a patio slider. Kind factors range from 1.0× (bifold) to 5.0× (patio hinged) the base hours.
A large patio door takes more handling than a standard interior door. Size factor scales with the square root of leaf area, capped at 2× the base.
A prehung unit arrives hung in its frame; a slab is hung in a separate frame — slab work carries a higher labor factor.
Closers, panic devices, continuous hinges, deadbolts, and kick plates add per-door installation hours — separate from the base install, so they never double-count.
New construction, retrofit insert, and full-frame replacement — the method drives the base install hours. Labor is priced at the crew's actual hourly rate.
Labor is priced at the crew\'s actual hourly rate — the wages you assign. Every labor assumption is editable. No field-verified universal production rates are claimed.
Vega supports the full new-construction and replacement scope — from a new rough opening to a full-frame teardown with removal, disposal, and reframing allowances.
New construction
A new rough opening, framing, flashing, and exterior integration. The heaviest install method — a higher base-labor factor.
Retrofit / replacement
The existing frame stays; the new door goes into the old frame. The baseline install method.
Full-frame installation
The existing frame comes out to the rough opening. Heavier scope — a higher base-labor factor — and the old unit needs removal and disposal.
Existing-door removal
Cutting the sealant, pulling the old door, and cleaning the opening — hours per door, by kind and configuration. Added when the job calls for it.
Disposal / haul-off
Loading and hauling off the removed doors — hours per door, added alongside removal.
Reframing allowance
A new or widened header needs king studs, jack studs, and rough-opening work — an allowance based on a user-entered opening count. This is an allowance, not a structural framing takeoff.
Reframing is an allowance based on a user-entered opening count — not automatically inferred structural framing. Structural headers and opening framing remain the Framing trade\'s scope.
When the owner or client supplies the door units, Vega removes the door-unit purchase while retaining the installation labor, installation materials, hardware, removal, disposal, and reframing allowance.
Retained on the estimate
Suppressed on the estimate
Particularly useful for custom homes, owner-selected specialty doors, remodels, and high-end residential projects. The installation scope is unaffected — only the door-unit purchase is gated off.
Vega supports fire-rated door estimating across 20, 45, 60, and 90-minute bands — and many commercial door and hardware conditions.
20-minute rated
Up to 20 minutes — including the garage-to-house door, which IRC R302.5.1 requires to be self-closing. Detected from the rooms a door opens between.
45 / 60-minute rated
Rated over 20 and up to 60 minutes — priced per leaf, with rated glass and rated frames where the schedule calls for them.
90-minute rated
Over 60 minutes — priced per leaf, with the frame and hardware bought separately or as a kit where the schedule says so.
Commercial locksets
Commercial levers and mortise locks — on commercial doors that lock or latch, whatever their function.
Closers & panic hardware
Surface closers and rim / vertical panic exit devices — on commercial and rated doors where the schedule requires them.
Continuous hinges
Full-height continuous hinges — on commercial doors where the schedule calls for them, replacing the butt hinges.
Commercial door and hardware estimating — not commercial storefront, curtain-wall, or complete commercial opening systems. Vega does not claim automatic code compliance.
Vega covers the residential door package a plan set calls out — from interior passage doors to patio systems and barn doors.
Interior doors
Hollow and solid core, panel and flush — the standard passage and closet doors.
Entry doors
Fiberglass, steel, and wood exterior entry doors — with or without glass.
Patio doors
Sliding glass and hinged French patio doors — full-glass exterior units.
French / double doors
Exterior and interior hinged pairs — an active and an inactive leaf.
Pocket doors
Doors that slide into a wall pocket — frame kit and track included.
Bifold doors
Folding closet doors on a track — single or double wide.
Bypass doors
Sliding closet doors — mirrored or plain, on a track.
Barn doors
Surface-mounted sliding doors on exposed track and hardware.
Dutch doors
A hinged upper and lower panel — two pieces, one frame.
Storm doors
A secondary door installed outside an entry door — from the schedule or the survey.
A per-square-foot door allowance assumes the building\'s size determines its door labor. It does not. Vega estimates the actual door package instead.
The same floor area can hold ten hollow-core interior doors or thirty solid-core doors with a patio slider, two fire-rated units, and commercial hardware. Vega estimates the actual door package — count, kind, size, material, hardware, and install method — rather than assuming the building\'s square footage determines the door labor.
A door estimate is only as good as the door specs behind it. Vega shows every door on the canvas — and every quantity, price, material, and hardware assignment is editable.
See doors on the plan
Every door marker is visible on the canvas — typed by kind, sized by width — ready for review before pricing.
Edit door specs
Change a door's kind, material, core, face, size, glazing, or rating. The product match and the estimate recompute with every edit.
Pick the product
Choose the generic baseline or a manufacturer-specific product. A product line matches each door to its nearest size.
Set the hardware
Choose hinge type, lock function, closer, panic, and kickplate per door — or let the schedule and the room use resolve them.
Set the install method
New construction, retrofit, or full-frame — the method drives the base install hours and the replacement scope.
Toggle removal, disposal, reframing
Add or remove removal, disposal, and reframing allowances. Set the reframing opening count. Demolition suppression is automatic on a full teardown.
Edit every quantity and price
Override unit costs, labor rates, and quantities. Include or exclude any line. Add custom items. Reset to defaults anytime.
Client-supplied doors
When the owner supplies the door units, exclude the door purchase while retaining installation labor, materials, and hardware.
Door Count
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Per kind
Install Method
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New / retrofit
Crew Rate
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Per hour
Illustrative breakdown — quantities and prices shown as placeholders, not actual Vega output.
Vega separates scope between trades to reduce duplicate estimating. Doors owns the unit, the hardware, and the installation; the surrounding scope belongs to the trade that builds it.
On a full teardown, the Demolition trade bills the doors out with the structure — so removal and disposal are suppressed in Doors to avoid double-counting.
Vega is built for the people who price doors — from custom-home builders to door subcontractors and remodelers.
Custom-home builders
Match manufacturer-specific products to the schedule's callouts.
General contractors
Carry doors alongside framing, exteriors, and millwork in one proposal.
Door subcontractors
Estimate installation labor, hardware, removal, and disposal for replacement jobs.
Remodelers
Handle retrofit and full-frame replacement with reframing allowances.
Door installers
Price the crew labor at actual hourly rates — count, kind, size, and method driven.
Estimators
Review, edit, and override every quantity and price before the estimate goes out.
Door estimating software helps contractors turn construction plans into door counts, kinds, sizes, materials, hardware, installation materials, and labor — and then into a priced estimate and a client proposal. Vega is built around that workflow for door installers, general contractors, and estimators.
Yes. When a door schedule is available, Vega prioritizes it over the floor-plan markers. The schedule can carry marks, counts, sizes, kinds, materials, cores, fire ratings, and hardware notes. Not every field exists on every plan — Vega uses what the schedule provides and flags what it does not. This is an AI-assisted, estimator-controlled workflow — not a one-click automatic takeoff.
Yes. Door installation labor is driven by the door count, the kind of each door, the size, whether it is prehung or slab, the applicable hardware, and the installation method — priced at the crew's actual hourly rate. It is not a flat per-door dollar and it is not derived from the building's square footage. New construction, retrofit, and full-frame installation each carry their own base-labor factor. Every labor assumption is editable.
Yes. Vega estimates hinges (residential, commercial ball-bearing, and continuous), locksets (passage, privacy, keyed entry, and commercial levers), deadbolts, door closers, panic hardware, kick plates, stops, flush bolts, thresholds, sweeps, and weatherstrip — each priced as a real product, not a bundled tier. Hardware installation hours are added per door and are separate from the base install, so they never double-count.
Yes. Vega supports new construction, retrofit (the existing frame stays), and full-frame replacement (the frame comes out to the rough opening). Existing-door removal and disposal hours are added when the job calls for them, and a reframing allowance covers new or widened headers. On a full teardown, removal and disposal are suppressed so the Demolition trade is not double-counted.
Yes. When the owner or client supplies the door units, Vega removes the door-unit purchase from the estimate while retaining the installation labor, installation materials (flashing, sill pans, shims, foam, fasteners), contractor-supplied hardware, removal, disposal, and reframing allowance. The door count and the crew labor are unaffected — only the door-unit purchase is suppressed. This is useful for custom homes, owner-selected specialty doors, remodels, and high-end residential projects.
Yes. Vega estimates 20, 45, 60, and 90-minute fire-rated doors — priced per leaf, with rated frames and rated glazing where the schedule calls for them. The garage-to-house door is detected as 20-minute self-closing per IRC R302.5.1 from the rooms it opens between, so it prices correctly on a floor-plan job too. Closers are included on rated doors. Vega does not claim automatic code compliance — confirm ratings and code requirements with your local building code.
Vega supports many commercial door and hardware conditions — commercial locksets, closers, panic hardware, continuous hinges, kick plates, and rated frames. Vega does not estimate commercial storefront, curtain-wall, or complete commercial opening systems. For commercial work, confirm the opening system scope with the project before relying on the estimate.
No. Overhead and garage doors are not currently part of this Doors estimating scope. Vega estimates swing, sliding, folding, and pocket doors — the doors that appear on a floor plan and a door schedule — but not overhead sectional or rolling garage doors.
No. Vega estimates use its configured Item Master product pricing — manufacturer-specific products and product selections seeded from the supplier workbook — rather than representing prices as live supplier quotes. Confirm prices in the estimate before relying on them, especially for custom or specialty doors.
Turn door schedules, opening specifications, hardware and installation requirements into a more complete estimate.