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Hey - yes you can print in colour. In the print settings you can let them know what paper type you would like and whether it's bulk/wht or colour. Be careful as colour is WAY more expensive with prints this large.

Glad it was helpful :)

It's hard to nail your takeoffs if you haven't built something similar.

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Hey there, these drawings were provided for our classes at George Brown College. Unfortunately, I am not able to share them with people outside of my direct students.

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This course support our 3yr Building and Renovation Technology program at George Brown College. If you can let me know where you are based I can see if I know of a local program.

@@connormalloy8383 North East I’m willing to drive anywhere and better yet have employment that allows me extreme flexibility. Thanks again.

@@davidavila-medina2228 Take a look at the different Ontario colleges offering skilled trades education. There are some great programs that you may like.

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It's been a while since I have made videos. If you like these, I can make more.

Ha - yes. I do like Bluebeam IF you know what you are looking for! This video was made for a 2nd year carpentry student new to plan reading and estimating. Sometimes programs can add a learning curve that confuses the learning outcome of a particular project. You'll be happy to know we teach Bluebeam to higher level classes :)

Hey there - you need to consider the roof factor when measuring the area of a roof. To do this, measure the orthographic area (length x width off the plan). Say this is a 10' x 10' shed. The area of the roof from the roof plan is 100sq. ft right? We're close, but this does not account for the roof slope. We need to multiply this 100sq ft. by the roof factor (added area) to account for the slope. For a 12/12 pitch, we multiply the 100sq ft by 1.4142 to get 141 sq ft. WAY more material right?? Look up a 'Roof Pitch Factor Chart' and keep this by your desk. Hope that helps.

Long/short story. My Dad is a builder, worked for many years on-site and in the office developing projects, studied design at school, ran my own projects and then learned how to teach others what I know!

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Glad it was helpful.

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There is a bunch of them including Bluebeam and STACK. I would say if you can't break a project down successfully on paper, the software doesn't do anything magical for you.

Buildertrend is interesting where you need to build the schedule on their platform. You may be able to download the schedule you create as an excel file though.

Hey there, yes you can schedule by hours but I would suggest you look to another software tool if this is the kind of schedule you build. Likely something that also offers time tracking to benefit from the detail you are pre-planning.

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25% is pretty high, unless you want a lot of waste, average is more like 15%.

Great question, and 'it depends'. Conventional waste factors for framing are +10% but this is dependent on the project complexity and how closely the dimensions of the build align with standard material sizes. Sheathing a 12/12 gable wall will produce more waste plywood than sheathing a flat roof facade. Same goes for flat roofs and hip/valley roofs. Get it? I would suggest you estimate /takeoff to the plans and start with a factor you are comfortable with (say 10-15%). When the framing scope is complete determine what your actual overage was to learn your actual waste factor. Track this overtime and you till learn how well your estimate and team does with material. I will say that the higher was factor you estimate (and deliver), your team will certainly make more waste!

If you don't protect them, they won't be around! You got it.

Glad this was helpful for you.

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Inner face linesr meters of each room or area you intend to have them. It would be x2 if you intend to have those finishes on the floor and ceiling

Linear takeoffs. I round to the nearest foot on each wall.

Pretty helpful!

Happy this was helpful.

He measured the LxW for the calculation, but drew out the diagonals because that’s usually how area is indicated on floor plans.

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Glad to help.

I can look at that if you (and my class) think it could be helpful.

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Will do - I made these cheaply using an iPad hung from the ceiling during the first lockdowns. I have a much better setup now!

Hey Andraya, I teach at George Brown College in Toronto. This series of tutorials was developed for a class in our Building and Renovation Technology program. If you like these videos, you should see what we get to do in class!

@@connormalloy8383 Funny enough that's the only college & program I know of in the province. I work remotely for a board member of the program I believe. A few of our team members have taken the program over the years, it's neat getting an insight into what they learn during it. I haven't heard of a similar program here in BC, I'll have to go looking. I watched each lesson in the series, you're a wonderful instructor, so clear and concise.

Thanks, Angel.

Hey - yes, will be making more videos at some point soon. I make these for my students in class when they need help, and make them public. If I get more questions this semester on Estimating I will share them with all of you too. Appreciate the feedback.

@@connormalloy8383 No worries thank you, look forward to any future videos

Happy to share, Sara!

Hey Marlene, appreciate the feedback. I would not recommend using any service that estimates by email (and why I do not do this either). Estimating materials is depended on the quality of the drawings (the set in this video cost $20,000) but they don't share much of the existing conditions. You don't want to miss out on items not shown in the drawings. The other reason you need to learn to estimate your own work is ONLY YOU know the efficiency of your own labour (your team or subs). Pricing books are useless as your team will work fast/slow and you might pay them more/less than average labour rates. All to say, try and take a more in-depth Estimating course somewhere. Let me know if you need some links to this.

@@connormalloy8383 Could you let me know some courses you would recommend to learn take offs - I'm doing foundation/slab and framing hardware.

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Hey there, yes you can schedule by hours but I would suggest you look to another software tool if this is the kind of schedule you build. Likely something that also offers time tracking to benefit from the detail you are pre-planning.

If you still need help with this I can make a video. Sorry for not seeing this comment earlier!

Hey Evan, we are fortunate to have a colleague share these drawing sets with our students. This set cost the client approx $20,000 to develop with their architect. As such, I can't share these! Best trying to find something similar.

Sure, I can look into it. What would you like to learn about?

Hey Christopher, I made a 2nd Buildertrend video where I introduced Phases. As far as Tags, I taught this in-class to my students. Just to note, I developed these videos to support teaching my students in-class so the videos do not cover everything I teach during a class. Hopefully some of this was helpful to you too.

Hi Steve, you can DM to my instagram @design.build.educate I can't share my school email publicly.

Hi Charles, thanks for the feedback. This tutorial was developed for in-class take-offs using hard copies of plans. As such, we were teaching this old school. That said, we are using a digital takeoff software this term (called STACK) so perhaps I will share the tutorials I make again.

@@connormalloy8383 I thought it was very easy to understand and also, that you explained it like a great teacher!

Great suggestion! Estimating labour is a tough one to fit into a short video as there are no simple rules. You are best to track labour efficiency on your own projects with 'labour cards' and build data based on your own employee's efficiency. Look at the writings of David Gerstel from JLC for more info on this.

@@connormalloy8383 Thanks for the guidance.

Hey - happy to make some videos on concrete, we don't really teach this in our carpentry courses but it's really down to volume calculations. Let me know what type of concrete takeoffs you're trying to learn about

Hey Jose - that would be a great video tutorial (cost comparisons). Happy to make a few of these and will post them later this summer

Ah - that's great. Happy they could help you!

Thanks!