About · Daylight Takeoffs
I started on the glass, not behind a desk.
Straight out of school I went to work as a glazier, installing stick-built and unitized curtain wall and storefront. Fifty-plus commercial projects later, most of them measured in months rather than days, I count the same scope I used to hang.
installed in the field
Who I am
I learned this trade from the wall in. Before I ever measured a takeoff, I was setting mullions, glazing lites, and walking punch lists in the field. I've installed stick curtain wall, unitized systems, and storefront, so I know how it's drawn, how it breaks into marks, and where a plan set hides the work that wins or loses a bid.
Why I started Daylight Takeoffs
Every job I installed began as someone's count. When that count was clean, the install went smooth. When it wasn't, we ate the difference in the field. I started Daylight Takeoffs to hand glazing contractors the takeoff I always wanted to receive: every lite, frame, and door counted by mark number, with a scope and exclusions page that states exactly what's in and what's out. No drift into other trades. No surprises.
Fluent in the systems you actually bid: Kawneer Trifab 451/601, 1600 Wall; YKK YES 45/YCW 750; OBE FG-3000/RW-2250; EFCO, Tubelite, CRL-US Aluminum. I read unfamiliar system docs the same way I read the ones I hung.
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