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Check a fitted wardrobe quote

Paste the quote you were given and enter your measurements. Every line is read against the job: what the quote leaves out, what it adds, which quantities sit outside the computed range, and what to ask. Quantities only — never prices.
  • 3Lines the job needs
  • 7Measurements
  • QuestionsNever a verdict

How the quote is read

Each line of a fitted wardrobe quote is matched to the line of the job it names, or marked as something the Fitted wardrobe takeoff does not measure — labour, removal, hire, fees, or anything else. Work the takeoff lists as part of the job but gives no quantity for is read as that work, not as something the quote adds.

The job’s own figures come from 7 measurements — floor protected, width of the wardrobe, floor to ceiling where it stands, doors or sliding panels painted on site, width of one door or panel, height of the doors, skirting refitted round it — run through the same calculators as the takeoff, so the two give the same figure for the same job.

Reading a fitted wardrobe quote

A fitted wardrobe quote prices joinery made for one wall, so the drawing it was priced from is worth having in writing: the overall width and height, how many sections and what is in each, the doors by kind, hinged, sliding or bifold, and what the carcasses, doors and shelves are made of and finished in. Worth asking who measured the room, whether the price changes once the walls and floor are found out of true, and whose cost it is if a carcass arrives and will not stand where the drawing put it.

The finishing lines are where two wardrobe quotes for the same alcove part company. Worth seeing named: the scribes and fillers against uneven walls and a sloping ceiling, the plinth and the cornice or top filler, the handles, the hinges or the sliding gear by make, mirror doors where they are wanted, and whether the doors and trims come painted or are painted after fitting. Worth confirming too whether the inside is fitted out with its rails, shelves and drawers or left as empty boxes, and whether the old cupboard or wardrobe is taken out and taken away.

Two things on the wall behind are worth settling before the carcasses go up. A socket or switch the wardrobe would cover, or lights wanted inside it, is an electrician's work with its own certificate: worth asking whether that is in the price or left to the householder to arrange, and who books it so the cable is run before the boxes are fixed. And where the skirting or the coving has to come off, worth asking whether it is put back, renewed or simply left cut short against the new joinery.

Three steps

  1. Give your measurements. The page opens on a typical job so it has something to show.
  2. Paste the quote's lines as they came, or add them one at a time. Leave the prices in — they are taken out, never read.
  3. Read the report: what is left out, what is added, what sits outside the range, and one list of questions to send.

Your quote

The fitted wardrobe quote you were given

Paste from an email, or open or drop a PDF, Excel, CSV or text file, or a photo of the quote. Amounts of money are taken out before anything is read — this page compares quantities, never prices.

Nothing you paste or open leaves this device.

or one the job needs:

The reading

What the quote says, against the job

Fitted wardrobe · Floor protected 130 sq ft · Width of the wardrobe 8 ft · Floor to ceiling where it stands 8 ft · Doors or sliding panels painted on site 4 · Width of one door or panel 2 ft · Height of the doors 7 ft · Skirting refitted round it 4 ftFloor protected 12 m² · Width of the wardrobe 2.4 m · Floor to ceiling where it stands 2.4 m · Doors or sliding panels painted on site 4 · Width of one door or panel 0.6 m · Height of the doors 2.2 m · Skirting refitted round it 1.2 m

  • What it leaves out

    Every line the job needs that nothing on the quote reads as, with the quantity your measurements produce.

  • What it adds

    Lines this job's takeoff does not measure — labour, removal, hire, fees, anything else — each named for what it is.

  • What sits outside the range

    Quantities above or below the computed range, by how much, in the quote's unit or converted and shown.

  • What to ask

    One list of questions, in the quote's order, ready to copy and send. Questions, never a verdict.

Paste the quote above, or add its lines one at a time. The reading appears here as each line is read.

Outside what this takeoff measures

6

Nothing in the reading measures these. Whether the quote covers each is worth asking in its own right: a scope missing from a quote tends to become a cost after work has started. Why each is left out is on the takeoff.

  • Plaster repairs behind the units, beyond packing them plumb
  • Design drawings and cut lists, which the maker or the joiner draws up
  • A scheme for the lights
  • Safety glazing ratings, which the glass maker gives
  • A radiator moved out of the way, with its pipes
  • Furniture moved out and brought back

The reference

Every line the reading looks for

For Floor protected 130 sq ft · Width of the wardrobe 8 ft · Floor to ceiling where it stands 8 ft · Doors or sliding panels painted on site 4 · Width of one door or panel 2 ft · Height of the doors 7 ft · Skirting refitted round it 4 ftFloor protected 12 m² · Width of the wardrobe 2.4 m · Floor to ceiling where it stands 2.4 m · Doors or sliding panels painted on site 4 · Width of one door or panel 0.6 m · Height of the doors 2.2 m · Skirting refitted round it 1.2 m. Each is the calculator linked under it, run with those measurements; a range is that calculator at both ends of one choice, not a margin for error.

How the ranges are taken

Where the choice is cutting waste, the ends are the site’s own allowances: 5%, the tight buffer of a crew with a planned set-out, and 15%, the wider one a first-timer orders. Where the calculator decides between patterns or materials, the ends are the options it offers. Where it adds nothing for loss, the range runs from the net quantity to 15% over it.

A minimum — the fewest hangers a spacing allows, the least airflow a room needs — has no upper end. A single figure carries an allowance the material itself needs, such as a lap, and names it.

What a reading like this cannot see

  • It does not know your prices, your market, or what the work ought to cost.
  • It does not know the building — the access, the condition of what is there, or what has to happen first.
  • It cannot check a lump sum, because there is no quantity in one.
  • A line it reads as missing may be priced under another name. A quantity outside the range is not evidence of anything. Each is a reason to ask a question.
  • Two quotes are not comparable until their scopes are.
  • It is not advice, and it is no substitute for a second quote.

The full takeoff

Every quantity for this job, with its working

The Fitted wardrobe takeoff runs the same calculators on the same measurements and shows what sits under each line here.

Open the takeoffEvery quote check

  • Base, allowance, order

    Each line's quantity before and after its allowance, and what to buy.

  • Every allowance editable

    Change a waste figure and the order follows, with its source named.

  • Into a project

    Add the whole job to a workspace with your own prices.

Frequently asked questions

What quantities does a fitted wardrobe job need?
It depends on the measurements, so this page asks for yours. At the size it opens on — Floor protected 12 m² · Width of the wardrobe 2.4 m · Floor to ceiling where it stands 2.4 m · Doors or sliding panels painted on site 4 · Width of one door or panel 0.6 m · Height of the doors 2.2 m · Skirting refitted round it 1.2 m — the lines come to: Rails and shelves (shelf board, closet rods, shelving): the interior fit-out, 2.52–2.76 m; Skirting (baseboard), 1.26–1.38 m; Woodwork paint, gloss or eggshell, 2.4–2.76 L. In imperial units — Floor protected 130 sq ft · Width of the wardrobe 8 ft · Floor to ceiling where it stands 8 ft · Doors or sliding panels painted on site 4 · Width of one door or panel 2 ft · Height of the doors 7 ft · Skirting refitted round it 4 ft — they come to: Rails and shelves (shelf board, closet rods, shelving): the interior fit-out, 8.4–9.2 linear ft; Skirting (baseboard), 4.2–4.6 linear ft; Woodwork paint, gloss or eggshell, 0.64–0.74 gal.
Which line on a fitted wardrobe quote varies the most?
The Woodwork paint, gloss or eggshell: 2.4–2.76 L for a job measured Floor protected 12 m² · Width of the wardrobe 2.4 m · Floor to ceiling where it stands 2.4 m · Doors or sliding panels painted on site 4 · Width of one door or panel 0.6 m · Height of the doors 2.2 m · Skirting refitted round it 1.2 m, depending on how much is allowed for loss over the net figure, up to 15%.
What does a fitted wardrobe quote often leave out?
The reading names every line of the job that nothing on the quote reads as — any of the 3 lines the takeoff measures. The takeoff also lists 6 things it does not measure, shown under the reading, and each is worth asking about: a scope missing from a quote tends to become a cost after work has started.
Can I paste the quote exactly as it came?
Yes — from an email, a PDF or a spreadsheet, one item to a line. Amounts of money are taken out before anything is read, headings and totals are skipped, and each line is shown with what it was read as, so a misreading is one correction. Quantities in the other unit system are converted and the conversion is shown; a count of boxes is never compared with a count of tiles.
Does this check the price as well?
No. It reads quantities, never prices, and this site publishes none: an installed price moves with the market, the season, the access and the specification, so a figure for what the work ought to cost would give you confidence in a number nobody can defend. A quantity against your own measurements is checkable, and every figure here links to the calculator that produced it.