Prevent the error.
One coordinated set closes the seams, so the mistakes that quietly cost more than our fee never happen.
Independent Fenestration Consultancy · Southwest Florida
We fully resolve every opening before a single opening is poured.
An independent fenestration consultancy and purchasing advocate for custom home builders and the homeowners they build for, in Southwest Florida. We document every window and door opening before it is ordered, poured, waterproofed, or installed.
The Stakes
The most expensive thing on the job that nobody owns
On a high end coastal custom home, the window and door package runs $400,000 to $800,000 across 50 to 80 openings. The costly failures happen at the seams between four parties who never share one document. The architect draws intent, the dealer draws to sell product, the shell crew pours to the nearest number, and the installer improvises the flashing. A single repoured opening, a nonrefundable door that does not fit, or a sill flashed out of sequence and buried before anyone looked can cost more than the entire Measured Opening fee.
Win the bid.
Because every dealer prices the same locked specification, you take the lowest responsible quote with confidence. On a package this size, leveling the bid can move the price by tens of thousands of dollars, before a single prevented error is counted.
The fee is a fraction of the package. Every opening fully resolved, from bid to closeout.
The Product
One set. Four audiences.
The product is a single coordinated shop drawing set that functions as one source of truth for everyone who touches an opening.
The dealer
Exactly what to quote and order.
The superintendent
Exactly how to pour and block every opening.
The installer
Exactly how to flash, seal, and set every opening.
The builder or homeowner
Exactly what is being purchased.
Independence
An advocate on the buy side
Measured Opening is led by a founder who ran high end window and door supply companies in this market for the past 7 years. From that seat, the pattern was impossible to miss: the most expensive package on the home is the one nobody fully owns, and the builder pays for it. Measured Opening was built to close that gap, working for the builder alone, so every opening is resolved before it costs anyone a dollar.
Every team member at Measured Opening advocates for the builder. We accept no commissions, referral fees, marketing support, travel, or promotional consideration from any supplier, manufacturer or dealer. Our only job is to protect your budget, your schedule, and your build quality.
No product sold.
No supplier money.
Ever.
The Engagement
How the engagement runs
One coordinated set, delivered in stages.
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It Starts With Intake
Before a single line is drawn, we gather the full picture of your job: architectural and structural plans, manufacturer product data and approvals, and clear selections from you and your homeowner. Then we walk the site and the schedule with your superintendent to confirm every opening and pour date on the ground. That groundwork becomes your initial pour and order shop drawings, built on verified information, not assumptions.
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The Set Becomes the Quote
That same coordinated set that gets your openings poured right is also your bid instrument, because built into the drawings is a complete window and door schedule that spells out, opening by opening, exactly what to quote. Every supplier prices the identical scope and hands back the same number, and we run a line by line analysis of each quote to confirm every supplier honored the schedule and nothing was substituted, padded, or missed. The result protects you, saves you the hours of chasing and comparing apples to oranges, and lets you simply award the job to the lowest priced, responsible supplier with total confidence.
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The Field Set
The field set is the second half of your shop drawings, and we build it once the pour and order set is complete. For every opening we draw the actual product profile in section, the sill, the header, and the jamb, and show exactly how each meets the buck, the shim, the block, and the surrounding wall. We then document for the installers precisely how that opening is to be waterproofed, bucked, shimmed, set, and installed. All of it ships as an installation kit: a laminated sheet for every opening, printed in English and Spanish, so any installer can walk onto the job and know exactly how to treat the conditions at every opening on the home. Each sheet carries a QR code that pulls up the current revision on a phone, so no one is ever working from an outdated print. Finally, every opening is photo verified before it is covered. And since we are never compensated by suppliers, the only interest that we protect is yours.
Waterproofing
Waterproofing carries all the way through
Because one set governs the pour, the waterproofing, and the set, what the builder buys is what actually installs, sealed and flashed correctly the first time.
Service Area
Where we work
Measured Opening serves custom residential construction in Southwest Florida, primarily Lee, Collier, and Charlotte counties.
Pricing
Pricing
Flat pricing, per counted opening. One full program. No commissions hidden in the number.
Recommended
Full Program
$425 per opening
The complete program. Selection management, the coordinated bid and line by line reconciliation, the two part production set with complete waterproofing details, the laminated field book and Opening Kit, and the closeout compliance record. Every opening fully resolved, from bid to closeout.
Partner Program
$375 per opening
The same full program at a founding partner rate, for builders who commit to three or more homes a year, with priority scheduling.
Contact
Bring us in before the first opening is ordered.
Tell us a little about the project. We’ll follow up to see whether a coordinated fenestration set is the right fit.