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Originally Posted by Rmarsh
Good point.
When I wanted to educate myself on construction estimating I bought a couple of books from RSMeans. For starters they break it down to four basic categories of construction, economy, average, custom, and luxury. The books were somewhat useful to me .....but I always fell back to stick by stick estimates to arrive at a number....then divided by square foot....every job was a different sq. ft. price. because of the variables. They have dozens of books on estimating...residential, remodelers guide, commercial etc.
They are not cheap....current issue in the picture is $398.
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I always did quantity takeoff and then framing labor by crew days.
Like basement walls day, first floor platform 2 days, first floor walls 3 days.
Exterior and interior finish labor was based on quantity takeoff.
I used one book for labor for odd things that I was worried about covering.
The trick to estimating is making sure you cover everything and have good sub coverage, you’ll be light and heavy on things but the project manager should be able to deal with it if he has a clue.
Of course as a friend of mine says, estimating is figuring out how long it’s going to take a guy you don’t know to do something you’ve never done.
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