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Compiling a takeoff

Compiling a takeoff

- [Instructor] Okay. Now that we have all of our takeoff done and our extension done, and we've looked at and figured out what all of our other job costs are going to be, it's time to put everything together in the bid recap. So we're going to go to the bid recap form and take a look at it here. We've got the header filled out for the most part and let's start taking in, putting in the pages, the systems, the materials, and the labor right at the top. So had you done a complete takeoff on this project, you'll have many pages with different systems, different materials, and different labors. So especially the work that you are going to perform yourself. So page number one might be foundations and concrete and when that's all added up, it might be $87,500 in material and about 410 hours of labor. Maybe the next page would be steel framing indoors. Your material might be 65,111 and labor's $592. Page three, trusses.…

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