Trace, graphite, and a 1/4" scale
Every file starts by hand. We redline your sketch in pencil first, so the questions are on paper before they’re on screen.
about.txt · the drafting desk
Rhea & Rowan Drafting is a small remote CAD desk in Massapequa. You send the creased sketch and the phone photos; we send back drawings that plot crisp, add up, and get past the permit counter without a second trip.
origin.log
Rhea spent years at a plotter that never stopped humming, watching good jobs stall because the drawings were nearly right. A door swing that clipped a vanity. A dimension string that missed the wall by an inch and a half. Rowan came up through the field: framing crews, cold mornings, a tape hooked on a sill plate and numbers written straight onto the drywall.
Put those two habits in one room and you get this desk. One of us reads a site the way a carpenter does, the other draws it the way a plan examiner expects to read it. Neither of us signs off until the numbers close the loop.
We work remotely on purpose. The sketch, the photos and the measurements arrive by text or email, the drawings go out as DWG and PDF, and the invoice follows the files. No retainers to untangle, no hourly meter running while you wait for an answer.
desk.rules
Your numbers are the truth of the room. We add every string twice, and when 4'-2" plus 9'-6" doesn’t equal the overall, we call you before we draw a line.
Heavy walls, hairline dimensions, clear callouts. A framer should be able to read the sheet with a coffee in one hand and sawdust on the other.
Your CAD opens clean: layers named sensibly, blocks tidy, no ghost xrefs from last Tuesday. The PDF prints the same on any plotter in the county.
A flat fee, written down, with the revision rounds already inside it. If the scope grows, you hear about it in a phone call, not on the invoice.
kit.list
Every file starts by hand. We redline your sketch in pencil first, so the questions are on paper before they’re on screen.
Send your title block and layer list and we draw to them. No standards? We’ll set up a clean, plain set you can keep using.
We print a test sheet and measure it with a scale rule, because a drawing that’s off by 2% on paper is off on the job.
phone-first, always
Call, describe the room, and we’ll tell you what to photograph, what it costs, and when the first draft lands on your screen.
Wed–Sun 10am–5:30pm
Mon & Tue by appointment