Takeoffs and fixture schedules into job quotes, with the lead-free record on every potable line.

The request rarely arrives as a clean list. It is a contractor's takeoff by size and footage, the fixture schedule from the plumbing drawings, a few pages of the Division 22 specification and a bid date. Someone on your desk turns every fixture tag into the items you stock or order, prices each one for that contractor, and checks each potable-water line against the lead-free records you keep.

For the test, AI reads copies of those requests and drafts each job quote: item, quantity, unit and price with its source, plus a column that names the lead-free record it relied on. Lines it can't settle, such as a model you don't carry or a valve with nothing on file, go on a short list for your quoter with the reason. No quote leaves the building.

One tag on the schedule is several lines on the quote. A water closet listed as WC-1 is seldom one item. A New England plumbing distributor's listing for an American Standard Afwall wall-hung bowl says only the bowl is included, with the flushometer, carrier, bolt caps and seat sold separately, and MasterFormat files flushometers in a section of their own, 22 42 43, apart from commercial water closets in 22 42 13. The draft breaks each tag into the parts your team quotes for it and multiplies by the schedule's count.

The flush rate lives in the model number. Sloan sells its Royal 111 water closet flushometer as the 111-1.28 and the 111-1.6, and the 186-0.5 is a half-gallon urinal valve. A federal law from 1992 caps toilets at 1.6 gallons per flush, WaterSense labeled flushometer toilets use between 1.0 and 1.28, and some states and cities require 1.28. EPA's WaterSense guidance also says a replacement valve's rated flush volume should match what the bowl's maker specifies. So the draft carries the rate the schedule names onto both the bowl and the valve, and marks any line where the two disagree.

Lead free is a rule with exceptions. Federal law defines lead free as a weighted average of no more than a quarter of one percent lead across a product's wetted surfaces. EPA's own list of what the rule leaves out: toilets, bidets, urinals, fill valves, flushometer valves, tub fillers, shower valves, service saddles, water main gate valves 2 inches and larger, fire hydrants, and anything used only for nonpotable service such as irrigation or industrial processing. In one restroom, the water closet and its flushometer are exempt, while the lavatory faucet and the stops under it are not. The draft labels each line covered, exempt or nonpotable, and never decides past that.

A mark on the box is not the whole record. Since September 1, 2023, manufacturers and importers have had to certify lead-free products, through an ANSI-accredited certifier when the maker has 10 or more employees, but the rule requires no mark on the product or its box. EPA's guide counts eight accredited certifiers, each with its own marks; on CSA's, Low Lead Content means NSF/ANSI/CAN 372. NSF/ANSI/CAN 61 has required compliance with 372 only since October 2017, so EPA advises checking a product marked 61 alone against its data sheet or the certifier's listing directory. The draft cites the record it read and sends any 61-only sheet to your team.

One job, several contractors, several counts. Epicor describes the job management add-on for Eclipse as letting a distributor attach several customers to one job with customer-specific bids, because each contractor's counts differ, and tracking deadlines on a bid board. Whatever system you run, put a job you quoted to two or three contractors in the sample. Your reviewer, often the quotations manager or senior project salesperson, watches the parts under each tag, the flush and flow rates, the price sources and every line sent for a lead-free check.

After a yes from your reviewer against the success criteria, the same job runs on incoming takeoffs and fixture schedules for about 30 days.

Each draft waits for your quoter to check, change or discard it, lead-free questions still go to the person your owner named, and only your team sends a quote.

The live run's price is fixed before you sign; any next job is priced on its own.