Explore the intricacies of Division 10,000 Specialties, a grouping of labor and material costs for construction items such as shower doors, toilet accessories, and wood shelving. Learn how each item's cost is clearly identified, subtotaled and checked for consistency, ensuring precision in construction cost estimation.
Key Insights
- Division 10,000 Specialties includes three construction items, each with a labor unit cost and a quantity of one. These items range from shower doors and toilet accessories to wood shelving, each with specific details such as dimensions and material type.
- Each item's cost is clearly broken down into labor and material costs, with subtotals for each category. This detailed breakdown ensures accurate cost estimation and offers a clear overview of the total cost for each item under Specialties.
- The 100% check is a crucial component of cost calculation, ensuring the total cost remains the same whether calculated by subtotals or by row totals. This method aims to ensure no cost is overlooked, resulting in accurate and consistent pricing.
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Next, let’s take a close look at Division 10,000 Specialties. There are only three items in that grouping of items and labor and material costs. We’ll start out by noticing that it’s shower doors, it’s deluxe, it’s tempered glass, and so on.
And that is a quantity of one each that has a labor unit cost and then a labor quantity. Let’s look at the next item as well, which is toilet accessories. You have a mirror that’s 36 inches by 24 inches with a three-quarter inch square frame around it.
The last item within Specialties is wood shelving, adjustable closet rod and shelf, 12 inches wide by 8 feet long. Each has a quantity of one and a labor unit cost, and a unit of measure. Notice that it’s each.
So each of the three items under Specialties is clearly identified with a labor cost unit, labor amount, material cost unit, material amount, and so on. Also, notice that you have subtotals under them. Specialty totals for labor, specialty totals for material amount, and so on.
For each cost category that applies. Those are then subtotaled off to the right-hand side where you can actually have your total for each row, but then you have a subtotal of that entire group of three items under Specialties. In essence, an entire spreadsheet for an estimate is not row by row adding them all up.
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It’s actually identifying subtotals and then an overall cost of the subtotals combined. You’ll also see that I have a 100% check in there. This comes in many different forms, but what we’re basically trying to do is make sure that we identify the costs work in any direction that you can come up with to make sure that they’re always the same.
No matter what, $937.84 should be the price whether you add your subtotals together or add your row totals together. That’s what’s referred to as a 100% check. We’ll talk a little bit more about that later, but it can be any different way that you can analyze it, making sure that nothing got missed.
So off to the right-hand side, you have notes, alternates, and WVS codes. If they’re applicable, this is where they’ll be noted. You might also want to reference under the QTO reference column, whereabouts can that be found? Is it on a particular sheet inside of the plans? Is it in a certain detail? Where can that be located if someone needs to look it up? So refer to those last two columns for your own needs, not necessarily for the client’s needs as you provide your proposal.
