Plans travel. Crews don’t.
Residential drafting services, wherever you’re building
We draw permit-ready residential sets for people whose houses we’ll never stand in front of. You send the measurements and the photographs; we send back the drawings. The part that’s genuinely local isn’t the drafting — it’s the desk your set has to clear.
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Before anyone draws a line
Five things, and none of them is a site visit.
A drawing is only as good as what it was measured from, and on a house we can’t walk through, that means you. This is the whole list. It’s shorter than people expect, and the last one decides more than the first four put together.
Measurements
Or an existing set of drawings, if one survives. Yours, or a surveyor’s, or a measuring service’s — we will tell you what the drawing needs before anybody starts.
Photographs
Room by room, plus the outside. They are how we catch the things a tape measure does not record — a beam, a soffit, a floor that steps down where nobody expected it.
The survey, if you have one
It is the only document that settles where the house actually sits on the lot, which matters the moment anything is being added.
A clear brief
How you want to live in the space, and what has to stay. Nothing in a set is harder to fix late than a brief nobody ever really settled.
The city it’s going to
The one input that changes what gets drawn rather than what gets drawn of. Two towns an hour apart ask for different sheets, notes and details before they will issue a permit.
And there is no required way to do it
We don’t have a form for you to fill out or an app to download. Send us what you have and we’ll tell you what’s still missing. What we do not do is come out and measure it ourselves — that is the honest trade for being able to work anywhere.
Not sure what you already have is enough?
Send it over and askThe one question to ask first
The drafter can be anywhere.
The plan examiner can’t.
Drafting is not site-bound and it never was. What is site-bound is the submittal — the list of sheets, notes and details one particular city wants before it will issue a permit. Two towns an hour apart will ask for different things. That is the real reason a remotely-drawn set sometimes comes back, and it has nothing to do with where the drawing was made.
Tell us up front which city the set is going to, because the submittal requirements are the first thing we need to know and the last thing anyone wants to discover late.
Asked at the start, it is a line in a brief. Asked after the drawings are done, it is a revision. We would rather spend the first conversation on it than the last one.
The part nobody promises
Your city decides what it accepts. So we draw to your city’s list, and we ask which city before we start.
Why our sets read the way they do
We draw them. Then somebody here has to build one.
Most people drawing residential plans never find out what happened next. Our drafting team works in-house, alongside the crew that has to build what they draw — so a detail that’s clever on paper and miserable on site comes back to us, and the drawings carry what we learned. That’s why a set of ours has the notes it has.
It’s also why we’ll sell you the drawings and nothing else. Plenty of what we draw gets built by somebody else’s crew, including other builders’ and investors’.
Who seals what, and when you hear about it
Structural engineering is partnered out to licensed engineers, and the useful part is the timing: we flag the elements that will need a seal while the set is being drawn, not after a reviewer finds them. And if your project is one of the ones that genuinely wants an architect, we’ll say so — the honest case for hiring one is written out on its own page.
The number, before you ask twice
Sets run $2,000 to $16,000.
There’s no flat rate, no per-square-foot price, and no separate figure for working remotely — a set drawn for a house two thousand miles away is priced exactly like one down the road. Four things move it, and you get the number before we start drawing.
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What the project will cost to build — the drawing fee scales with it.
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How much house is being drawn, and how much of it is changing.
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Whether the set has to be permit-ready or is for design and pricing only.
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Whether an as-built has to be drawn first, because no usable drawings survive.
How long
8 weeks to 6 months, and which end you land on is the same question as the price. A smaller project is two or three design conversations; a larger one is six or more. Working remotely doesn’t change that band either — you get a real timeline at the start, not an average.
Level one, from one of our permit sets
The sheet-by-sheet inventory of what arrives — plans, elevations, renderings, the technical documentation — is laid out on the floor plans page.
How far this actually goes
Anywhere. Not anywhere within an hour of us.
People assume a design-build company draws only inside the radius its trucks cover. Ours doesn’t, and it never has. We’ve taken drafting and design work as far as New Orleans.
What travels is the drawing and the judgment behind it. What doesn’t travel is us standing in your kitchen — which is why the measurements come from you, and why we ask which city the set is going to before anything else.
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Straight answers
What people ask when the drafter isn’t local.
How do I get an as-built if you are not the one measuring my house? Getting started
You measure it, or you hire someone near you to. Plenty of people do it themselves with a tape and a phone; plenty hire a local measuring service or a surveyor. We do not have a required one — tell us what you have and we'll tell you what's still missing before anybody starts drawing. An older house has almost always been changed at least once without anyone drawing it, which is why this step exists at all.
Will the set be accepted by my city? Permits
We draw permit-ready construction sets to the requirements of the city they are going to, which is why we ask which city before we start. What nobody can promise is the permit itself — your plan examiner decides, and a drafting company that tells you otherwise is describing a power it does not have. If your city asks for something we have not seen before, we would rather find that out from you in week one than from a reviewer in week ten.
Which states will you draw permit-ready plans for? Where we work
There isn't a list, and there isn't a state line. The willingness isn't geographic, because the drawing is what travels rather than us — and we have drawn outside Texas. What we need is the name of the city, early, so the set goes to the right submittal list the first time rather than the second.
What is not included? What we do not do
Three things. We don't stamp structural work — engineering is partnered out to licensed engineers. We don't come measure your house. And we don't promise you a permit. Everything else on a residential set, we draw: plans, elevations, as-builts, the construction documents.
It ends up being a house either way
Send us what you’ve got. We’ll tell you what’s missing.
Measurements, photographs, a rough idea and the name of the city it’s going to. That’s enough for us to price the set and tell you how long it will take, before you’ve committed to anything.