How to do a doors, frames and hardware takeoff

Read the spec first

Read 08 11 13 Hollow Metal Doors and Frames and 08 14 16 Flush Wood Doors. Read 08 71 00 Door Hardware. Note the gauges, the cores, the veneers and the finishes. The hardware sets are often at the back of 08 71 00. Each set lists every item for one kind of opening.

Sheets and schedules that carry the count

• The door schedule. It lists each opening: size, door type, frame type, rating and hardware set.
• The door and frame type elevations. They show lites, louvers, sidelights and transoms.
• The floor plans. They show each door number, the swing and the wall type.
• The frame details: head, jamb and sill.
• The life safety plan. It shows the rated walls.
• The hardware sets in the spec.

Steps in order

1. Count the rows on the door schedule.
2. Find each door number on the floor plans. Note any number on only one of them.
3. Group the doors by type, size, material and rating.
4. Group the frames by type, size and wall thickness.
5. Work out the hand of each door from the plan.
6. Assign a hardware set to each opening. Count the items in each set.
7. Count pairs as two leaves. Check the hardware for the inactive leaf.
8. Measure the glass lites if the glass is yours.

Count, length, area or volume

• Count: doors, frames, leaves and every hardware item.
• Length: weatherstrip, thresholds and astragals, if you price them by length.
• Area: glass lites and sidelights.
• Volume: none.

Conflicts to find, and what to exclude

• The floor plan shows a door that the schedule omits.
• The schedule lists a hardware set number that the spec does not contain.
• The life safety plan rates a wall. The schedule shows no rating for its door.
• The frame depth on the schedule does not fit the wall type on the plan.
• The schedule shows electrified hardware. No sheet shows power or a card reader.

State if you supply only or supply and install. Exclude aluminum entrance doors, overhead doors and access doors unless the schedule gives them to you. Qualify low voltage wiring, power supplies and field finishing. State who supplies the glass in the doors.

Trade takeoffs · Updated 11 Nov 2026