Renovation Brief PDF (Pro)
One tap turns a WireSketch project into an A4 PDF an electrician can quote from. Cover page, annotated wall sketches, fixture schedule, bill of materials, and an 8-item electrician checklist. The result is faster than a 30-minute walkthrough and less ambiguous than a hand drawing on a kitchen napkin.
What’s in the PDF
- Cover page — project title, address (if attached to a Home), region/electrical code, room type, date, fixture count.
- Wall sketches — one page per wall, with the original photo (or Quick Sketch canvas), fixtures placed in scale, dimension annotations, and any freehand notes you added.
- Fixture schedule — tabulated list: count, type, height, dedicated circuit (if any), wattage if applicable. The electrician’s shopping list at a glance.
- Bill of materials — cable length per circuit type, conduit, junction boxes, region-specific wire references (NYM-J / Twin & Earth / NM-B / TPS), plus estimated material + labour cost in your region’s currency.
- Questions for my electrician — 8-item checklist with the “things I should have agreed before quoting” questions: panel capacity, AFCI/RCD scope, smart-home retrofit, EV charger circuit, etc.
- Safety zone overlay (wet rooms / outdoor) — IEC 60364 zones drawn over the wall photo so the electrician can see what you’ve placed where.
- Disclaimer footer — the planning-tool framing, repeated on every page so nobody confuses the brief with a stamped electrical design.
What it isn’t
The Renovation Brief is a brief, not a design package. It doesn’t replace the licensed electrician’s design responsibility, doesn’t carry an engineer’s stamp, and isn’t permit-ready in any jurisdiction. Its job is to make the conversation between homeowner and electrician concrete and fast.
Use it for quoting
Three or four electricians, three or four quotes. Send the same Renovation Brief PDF to all of them. The quotes come back materially comparable, because everyone’s pricing the same scope of work — not their own interpretation of a 5-minute phone call. This is the single most valuable use of the brief for homeowners.
Use it for the install
Print the brief, hand it to the install crew on day one. The fixture schedule is the shopping list; the wall sketches are the install map; the safety zone overlays show the wet-room and outdoor zones the team needs to honor.
Use it for the post-job archive
File the brief in your house documentation. In ten years when you re-renovate, refinance, or sell, the brief tells the next person (or next electrician) what was installed where — far more useful than the “I think we had a circuit added” memory.
Pro feature
The Renovation Brief PDF is part of WireSketch Pro — one-time purchase, no subscription. The free tier can export a watermarked PDF (the plan itself), plus PNG, JPEG, and CSV. Pro removes the watermark and adds the full brief structure (cover page, electrician checklist), plus the Circuit Panel sheet with auto-fill and Panel Report PDF, unlimited projects and fixtures, multi-wall sketching, room templates, centimetre measurements, and full Knowledge Base browsing.
What also exports
- Property Report PDF — one document for a whole property: every project and wall, the circuit panels with their totals, and the Solar & Storage summary (kWp, battery, yield). The aggregate companion to the per-project brief.
- Panel Report PDF — if you’ve set up the Circuit Panel, a separate A4 PDF with the breaker directory, calculated load per row, warnings, and panel notes. Pairs with the brief; visually matched.
- PNG / JPEG — one image per wall for sharing in chat apps or email.
- CSV — the fixture list as a spreadsheet, for anyone building their own quote template.
Important. WireSketch produces a planning and design artefact, not a compliance document. Standards are modelled at their baseline — local amendments apply, and final certification of any installation must come from a licensed electrician operating under your jurisdiction’s adopted edition and amendments.