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I was rolling along doing takeoffs for builders and lumberyards using this system until one day I walked into an office to pick up a check and the builder said to me “You do terrible takeoffs!” After I picked my jaw up off the floor I blurted out “What?” He said “You cost me thousands of dollars, all the floor beams were wrong and I had to order a lot more lumber”
The problem really happened because of a very stupid idea, “blueprints with options”. This blueprint had an optional 2nd floor plan that required more cantilevered joist. To make a long story short, they put the wrong second floor on the house. Even though my material list gave the location of each set of joist called out by the room they were over.
I thought I had done everything possible to give as detailed and accurate a material list as you could reasonably do.
Yet the misunderstanding of the material list by his framer cost him money even after he already paid me good money for an accurate material takeoff.
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The reason words don’t work well on material lists is because blueprints are spatial and you have to search that space for a reference. thats a lot of information to sort through. a big red circle on a blueprint saying “ HERE” is a lot easier to grasp then to find a piece of text somewhere on the page.
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One picture is worth a thousand words.
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I knew then that the only path to material estimating nirvana was with graphic annotation that showed actual placement of material.
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kodak dc-120
sony Mavica
kodak photoCD
frugglevision
morie mask
quickcam
snappy video capture
video camera
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