Residential CAD drafting · Colchester, Connecticut
Sheet A-000 · Scale ¼″ = 1′-0″
Measured drawings, floor plans and permit sets for the people who will actually build from them — homeowners, contractors and small architecture firms, drawn on Bulkeley Hill Road in Colchester, CT.
Send the address. A written quote comes back within 48 hours.
From your address to a written, fixed-price quote.
From the day we measure to your first draft set.
Folded into every fixed-price homeowner project.
Services / 07
Most projects begin with the house as it actually stands, not the house on the 1987 plan. Everything downstream — the bid, the permit, the framing — leans on that first set of lines.
We walk every room with a laser, check the diagonals for out-of-square corners, and draw what is there — the stair rise that isn’t quite code, the chimney that bumps into the closet.
Proposed layouts drawn to scale for renovations, additions and resale: dimensioned, furniture-free, and clear enough that three contractors will price the same house.
The whole submission: cover sheet and code notes, demolition and proposed plans, elevations, sections and details — organised the way a plan reviewer reads them.
The contents page
Structural calculations, energy forms and professional stamps belong to your engineer or architect. We draw to their markup and coordinate the sheets around it.
Fees / 07
There is no hourly meter running while you think. Homeowner and contractor work is fixed-price: half to hold the measure-day, the balance when the final PDFs and DWG files go out. Firms can buy drafting time by the block. Choose who you are:
You know what you want changed but not how it gets drawn. We measure, draw, and hand you something your contractor and your town will both understand.
Whole-house survey up to 1,800 sq ft, PDF + DWG.
For a renovation or addition you’re still deciding on.
Sheets A-001 to A-301, one round of building-office comments.
Full A-001 to A-401 set with demolition and details.
Quick turns, tidy sheets, and a revision page when the client moves a window after the framing is up.
Framing plan, footing detail and section on one clean sheet.
Per site visit, priced by the house, drawings in a week.
Add to a permit set when the closing date is the deadline.
Per sheet, numbered and clouded so the field sees what moved.
Send redlines and field notes; get back sheets drawn to your standards, your layers and your title block.
Use across projects within 60 days; invoiced up front.
A lower rate for a steady month of drafting.
Existing conditions drawn from your own measurements.
Per sheet, returned as DWG and PDF in two business days.
House rules / 07
Before we arrive / 07
A typical Colchester-area house takes a morning. Here is how it runs, so the person who lets us in is never guessing.
We walk the house with you and mark every change you’re considering, however vague.
Laser distances room by room, then diagonals, to find what’s out of square.
Roof pitch, eaves, wall heights and grade outside, then attic and crawlspace.
Photos, notes, and a one-page sketch left with you before we go.
Drawings are the quietest part of a build, and the part everything else leans on.
A good set answers the plan reviewer before they ask, tells the framer where the stud goes, and lets the owner sign the contract knowing exactly what they’re buying. We draft for that kind of quiet.
Ashcombe & Lindqvist · Colchester, CT
Questions / 07
Anything we haven’t covered, call (860) 608-7934 on a Wednesday through Sunday.
No — we are a drafting studio, not a licensed design firm. Sets are drawn for signature by your architect or engineer. Some towns accept unstamped plans for work like decks and interior remodels; ask your building office first, and we’ll give you the exact question to put to them.
Fixed price by invoice. Half holds your measure day, and the balance is due when final PDF and DWG files are delivered. You can pay by check, ACH transfer or card on the invoice. Firms buying drafting blocks pay for the block up front.
We measure to ⅛″ and state the tolerance on the sheet. If a wall runs out of square, we draw it out of square and note it, because the cabinet maker will need to know.
One round of comments is included with every permit set. We revise the affected sheets and reissue them with the revision numbered, so reviewers can see exactly what changed.
We’re based in Colchester, CT. Site visits cover eastern Connecticut — Hebron, Lebanon, Salem, East Haddam, Marlborough, Norwich and the towns between. Drafting from your own measurements can be done for anywhere in the state.
A PDF set for printing and filing, plus editable DWG files so your architect or contractor can keep working from them. DXF on request.
Start a project / 07
Address, what you’re planning, and the date you’d like permits in hand.
Studio hours
Wed–Sun 8am–4:30pm · Mon & Tue by appointment
Bulkeley Hill Road, Colchester
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