Straight answers about plan stamping.

The target for most standard residential plan sets is a few business days, with rush handling available. Complex commercial work takes longer. Once we open, every job gets a firm turnaround in writing at acceptance rather than an average lifted from a marketing page. Waitlist members hear the published turnaround first.

A licensed Texas Professional Engineer will read your drawings against the governing code and the loads the structure will see: gravity, wind, and where it applies seismic and soil conditions. That means member sizes, connections, load paths, anchorage, and the assumptions the design rests on. If the drawings do not show enough to make that judgement, we will ask for what is missing. The seal goes on afterward, and only if the plans support it.

No. A Texas Professional Engineer may only seal work they performed or reviewed and are willing to take responsibility for. Sealing plans an engineer has not examined is professional misconduct, and it is grounds for the Texas Board to act against the licence. Any service offering a seal as a standalone purchase is describing something an engineer cannot legally do. The review is not a step in front of the product. The review is the product.

That is a normal outcome and it will be part of the process, not a failure of it. You will get a written list of what needs to change and why, in plain language, with the code reference. Make the changes, send the revised set back, and the engineer looks again. We would rather send a plan set back twice than seal something that should not carry a seal.

The seal covers the engineering judgement on the drawings that carry it: that the design shown meets the applicable code and standards for the loads and conditions stated on the plans. It does not cover construction. It is not an inspection of work already built unless that is the job you asked for and the engineer saw it. It is not a warranty on materials or workmanship, and it does not make the engineer responsible for a builder who deviates from the sealed set. It also does not bind the local building official, who has their own authority over what gets permitted.

Every plan set will be reviewed and sealed by a Professional Engineer licensed by the Texas Board of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors. In Texas, engineering services offered to the public must also come from a firm registered with the Board. StampMyPlans is a brand of 254 Engineering Services LLC, and that firm registration is pending. We are not accepting engineering work until it is active, which is why this site opens a waitlist and not an order form.

Solar plan sets, carports, patio covers, metal buildings, foundations, framing, and repair plans. If your project is close to that list but not on it, put it in the waitlist form and we will tell you. If something is outside what our engineers are competent to seal, we will say so and decline, because taking work outside your competence is its own violation.

No, and be careful with anyone who does. The authority to issue a permit belongs to the local building official, and jurisdictions apply amendments and local requirements that vary. What we will be able to tell you is that the plans were reviewed against the applicable code by a licensed engineer who put their seal and their licence behind that judgement. If a reviewer comes back with a comment on the engineering, we respond to it.

Flat rates by plan type and size, quoted before any work starts, with rush handling priced separately. No hourly billing and no surprises after the fact. The rate sheet publishes at launch, and waitlist members lock founding rates. See the pricing page for how the structure works.

Yes, and it is the part of this business we care most about. Installers and dealers running five or more sets a month will get batch submission, a dedicated turnaround commitment, one engineer who knows your details, and account terms instead of paying per job. Tell us your monthly volume on the waitlist form and you go to the front of the queue. The volume page covers what is planned.