What Is a Material Take-Off and Why Does It Matter?
A take-off turns a set of plans into a list a supplier can price and a crew can build from. Here is what a good one contains and how to get it.

Spectrum Building Products is a veteran-owned building materials supplier based in Talbott, Tennessee, serving builders in Morristown and across East Tennessee since 2016. Jared Jarnagin pulls your material take-off, prices every line across the vendor market, puts it all on one bill, and is on your job site when the trucks arrive.
Spectrum Building Products handles material procurement from the plan sheet to the job site. The work starts with a line-by-line take-off, moves to pricing across the vendor market, lands on one consolidated bill, and ends with deliveries checked in person. Spectrum supplies the material. It does not install it.
Six services, one invoiceEach service below stands on its own, and most builders use them together on the same job.

A complete, line-by-line material list pulled from your construction plans.

Every line on the take-off priced across the vendor market.

All materials and all vendors on one invoice from one contact.

Deliveries checked against the take-off on your job site.

A material liaison between the general contractor and every trade.

Material cost review built into every project, never billed separately.
Not sure which piece you need? Most jobs start with the take-off, because every other step works from that list.
Compare all six servicesSpectrum Building Products runs every project through the same four steps, and Jared Jarnagin handles each one himself. Send the plans once. The list, the pricing, the invoice and the delivery checks all come from the same person.
Your plans become a complete, line-by-line list, so nothing is missed and nothing is over-ordered. How the take-off is pulled.
Every line is priced across the vendor market, not with one or two yards. How vendor pricing is sourced.
All materials and all vendors roll into a single invoice from a single point of contact.
Deliveries are checked against the take-off on your job site and problems are solved while the truck is still there.
Waste factors built in. The same list is used to price the job and to check each delivery.


Spectrum Building Products exists because builders were spending more time on the phone with suppliers than on the job site. A typical project means five to ten vendor relationships, each with its own rep, its own pricing and its own invoice. Jared Jarnagin, a U.S. military veteran, founded the company in 2016 to put all of that behind one phone number.
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Spectrum Building Products works from Talbott, Tennessee and supplies builders in Morristown and across East Tennessee, from Knoxville and Oak Ridge to Sevierville, Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg. Extended markets are Charlotte, Chattanooga and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
See how each area is servedStraight answers about how Spectrum Building Products works. The full FAQ covers take-offs, pricing and the Virgin Islands.
Ask Jared: (423) 736-0765Spectrum Building Products gives a builder one point of contact and one consolidated invoice for every material on the job. Instead of five to ten vendor accounts, each with its own rep, pricing and invoice, you make one call. Jared Jarnagin sources the materials across the vendor market and handles the ordering and reconciliation behind that single bill.
Yes. For builders in the primary East Tennessee service area, Spectrum Building Products is physically present when materials arrive. The delivery is checked against the take-off, inspected for damage and staged with the crew, and a wrong or short item is dealt with on the spot. It is part of the service, not an add-on. See how on-site material management works.
Spectrum Building Products is based in Talbott, Tennessee and serves builders in Morristown and across East Tennessee, including Knoxville, Sevierville, Maryville, Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and Oak Ridge. Extended markets are Charlotte, North Carolina, Chattanooga, Tennessee and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The service areas page lists every community.
Call Jared Jarnagin at (423) 736-0765 or send the quote form. Describe the project and send your plans as a PDF or a printed set if you have them. Spectrum Building Products pulls the material take-off, prices every line across the vendor market and returns one consolidated quote. Jared gives you a date once he has seen the plans.
Yes. Spectrum Building Products works with residential and commercial builders of all sizes, and there is no strict minimum project size. A single home, a multi-unit development and a commercial job all go through the same steps: a full take-off, market-wide pricing, one bill and delivery checks on site.
Neither. Spectrum Building Products is a building materials supplier that handles procurement for builders. It does not install, frame or act as the contractor, and it is not tied to one yard or one manufacturer. That independence is what lets every line of a take-off be priced across regional yards, national distributors and specialty suppliers.

A take-off turns a set of plans into a list a supplier can price and a crew can build from. Here is what a good one contains and how to get it.


Spectrum Building Products pulls the take-off, prices it across the vendor market and puts every vendor on one bill. Tell Jared about the job and he will tell you when to expect the list.