Floor Plan
An existing-conditions plan: every wall weight, door swing, window opening and ceiling height noted. You send tape numbers, we send back one clean sheet.
Order a plan
Remote CAD drafting · As-builts · Poughkeepsie, NY
Got a Notebook Full of Numbers and No Drawings the Town Will Accept?
Send the pencil-smudged notebook page, the phone photos with a yellow tape blade in frame, or a laser scan’s cloud of a million red dots. Back come dimensioned plans and elevations — crisp as a freshly sharpened 2H line — for one flat fee.
Drawing scale one to forty-eight. ¼″ on paper = 1′–0″ of your house.
Per-project pricing
Flat Fees, Written Down Before We Sharpen the Pencil
One price per drawing set, agreed in writing, invoiced after you say yes. The clock never ticks in the background like a taxi meter.
Plan + Four Elevations
The floor plan plus four exterior elevations drawn from your photos, each with a tape in frame for scale.
Order the pairFull As-Built Set
Plans, four elevations, two building sections, a roof plan and a title block that earns a permit reviewer’s nod. Delivered as PDFs at 24×36 and letter size, plus editable DWG.
- Dimension strings you can read from across a room
- North arrow, scale bar, sheet index
- Two rounds of town comments included
Every dimension lands within an eighth of an inch of the number you gave us. If a number looks wrong, we circle it and ask before drawing.
Business days from the afternoon your numbers arrive complete: long enough to check every closure, short enough to keep your permit window open.
Laser-Scan to Drawings
Hand us an .e57, .rcp or .las file and we trace the walls out of the dots — the soffit that dips, the stair that isn’t quite square, the floor that slopes toward the drain.
Send a scanSheets back in 48 hours. Call before 3pm Tue–Fri and the pencil starts moving that same afternoon.
Before you send a single number
Six Things Everyone Asks While Holding the Tape
Is a Tape, a Notebook and a Phone Really Enough?
More than enough. Pull the tape corner to corner, jot each wall, then shoot every room from two corners with the tape’s yellow blade in frame. We send a one-page guide on the order to measure in, so the numbers close like a loop instead of drifting off the page.
Why a Flat Fee and Not an Hourly Rate?
Hourly billing sounds like a meter running in a taxi. You get a price in writing before we open your files and it stays the price. Two rounds of town comments are included; after that it’s $95 a round.
Will the Building Department Take It?
Our sheets carry the things reviewers look for: title block, scale, north arrow, dimension strings, a sheet index. Every town has its quirks, so send us the checklist and we match it. We don’t apply a design-professional seal; if your town requires one, we hand the set to your architect or engineer ready to stamp.
How Soon Is Soon?
Five business days from the afternoon your numbers arrive complete. Need it quicker? Rush is +$140 flat and sheets return in 48 hours.
What Happens When a Number Looks Wrong?
Walls have to meet. When two dimensions disagree by more than a pencil’s width, we circle the spot on a markup and send it back before drawing a line. You re-measure one wall, not the whole house.
What Do I Get Back?
Sheets as PDFs at 24×36 and letter size, plus DWG files your architect, engineer or contractor can open and keep editing. Nothing is locked, nothing expires.
The drafting desk
Hold the tape. We hold the pencil.
We draw what’s actually there — not what the 1974 blueprint promised.
Tape & Plumb is a small drafting desk in Poughkeepsie. We never need to walk through your door: you hold the tape, we listen for the snap of the blade and turn what you read out loud into line weights. Smell of graphite on the page, none of the sawdust on our boots.
- Studio
- 12 Lindbergh Place, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603
- Phone line
- (347) 295-5501
Tue–Sat 11am–5:30pm · Sun noon–3pm · Mon closed - You send
- Tape-and-notebook numbers, phone photos with a tape in frame, or .e57 / .rcp / .las scans.
- You get
- PDF sheets at 24×36 and letter, plus DWG.
- Settled by
- Invoice after you approve the quote.
12 Lindbergh Place
Poughkeepsie, NY 12603
Find the front door
The tape snaps back, the bob goes still, and somewhere in Poughkeepsie a wall finally gets a number.Rule one, pinned above the drafting table Read how the desk works
Plan A / Plan B
From Pocket-Notebook Scrawl to Sheet A-101
What Lands in Our Inbox
- A notebook page with “kitchen 11-6 ish” and a coffee ring over the closet
- Forty phone photos, half of them tilted, one of a very confused dog
- A laser-scan point cloud that looks like a ghost of your house
- A napkin sketch, a deadline, and a permit window that won’t stay open
What Goes Back Out
- Dimensioned floor plan with wall weights, openings and door swings
- Four exterior elevations and two sections, labeled and to scale
- A title block, sheet index and north arrow the plan reviewer expects
- PDFs at 24×36 and letter, plus DWG your architect can keep editing
Ready when your tape is
Send Us the Numbers, Get Back the Sheets
Tell us what you’re building and what the town wants. We’ll answer with a flat fee in writing before any drawing begins.