When building up composite rates for approximate quantities you have to follow some basic principles.
Taking off roof quantities.
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Off a roof plan.
When thinking of roof problems you just need to worry about three things.
However remember that quantities taken off plans are only estimates.
Trick of the trade 4.
Services roof and ceiling take off sheets in a roof estimating sheet the estimator will get the roofing costs and calculate the estimate of total roof work.
Besides the estimator can compare prices per sq ft for different roofing materials.
We are going to illustrate a composite rate build up for the roof.
Roof types take off examples in this guide are for the most common roof types skillion gable hip and bullnose the.
The order of items on this list should follow a logical sequence and these should then be rearranged into arm sequence in order to bill the work.
Before commencing taking off quantities for the roof structure the surveyor should draw up a to take list to ensure that no work items are overlooked.
Composite rate build up roof the elemental estimate layout and grouping of items will be used in this example.