Step-by-Step Guide to Ceiling and Crawl Space Sheathing Takeoff for Residential Construction Projects

All right, welcome back everyone. The next lesson that we are going to focus on is going to be some of our ceilings, as well as maybe some related insulation in areas kind of like the crawl space down below the guest room. So let's first focus on our ceilings here.

And to do our ceiling takeoff, let's actually just start from down below and let's start with the basement crawl space area. And then we will work our way up to the guest room and music room ceilings as well. So down in the crawl space area, we can see that we have a note five just called insulated crawl space.

We can see that there's a note seven, which just has to do with the finish of the face of the walls. And we have this cut through here, A4.2. So let's look at detail one on A4.2. And we can see that this is the crawl space area. We're not seeing a specific call out for material on this ceiling, but we know that we're going to have kind of like a ceiling underneath the guest bedroom, which will be the crawl space.

We're just going to assume maybe plywood there. The music room, we know that there is some ceiling material called out for the underside of the music room based on this detail on sheet 10, which we will look at. We've got two kind of underside materials here, and then jumping up to the floor levels of the guest bedroom in the music room, we've got a ceiling sheathing here, and we've got some ceiling sheathing in between our glulam structural beams.

So that's what we're going to be looking at taking off right now. And let's just go ahead and jump into the guest bedroom and down at the crawl space sheet. Let's go on to the sheet seven here.

Now let's try to determine, is this the same exact size as the room above? Or how should we take this off here? 20 foot nine inches is going to be the guest room, and 20 foot nine inches is also going to be the crawl space from this horizontal dimension. This kind of 23 foot two inches, 23 foot two inches. Okay, great.

So it looks like from the crawl space, we can really just do a whole ceiling take off of this, and that will cover us from an underside of guest room standpoint. So let's grab an area take off here, and we may already have a plywood, okay, we have a plywood floor sheathing. We'll just call this plywood ceiling sheathing just to change in case there's any different material.

Oftentimes floor sheathing might have some sort of a structural component to it. And the ceiling sheathing may be, actually it may not even be plywood, let's just call it like a gypsum board. Because the plywood, as we said, will typically be on the kind of like floor structural side of things as it has kind of a better bearing capacity.

But since we are doing ceiling sheathing, let's give this a gypsum finish, as that is typically what is going to be the material for ceiling type of sheathing. We've got this gypsum sheathing called out. Let's make this a slightly different color.

Let's make this an orange color here. We're gonna go ahead and we'll keep this at wood framing for now. We will assign a gypsum, actually do we have a gypsum board called out yet? Let's see.

All right, well, we'll keep that at, here you go, gypsum board 09, there you go. We'll call that gypsum board. Okay, so let's just do this whole area here.

We're not gonna include those bump outs for the piers. All right, so that is our square. And that is going to be our gypsum sheathing.

We're gonna go ahead and let's make this a tool because we are gonna be using it for a few different areas here. We've made that a tool. Let's go ahead and right click that and turn it into properties mode.

Let's double click it. There you go, had to double click it to select. There we go, okay.

Sorry, there was a bit of a lag there. So, all right, we've done the sheathing and then number five, we had an insulated crawl space. So let's see if there's any detail calling out insulation under there or where that insulation is coming from.

We've got A4.2, this cut number one. Let's go back to that cut here. A4.2 number one, I don't see any insulation there.

Don't even see any insulation called out in the floor, but there's definitely gonna be insulation in these walls. So let's check on this kind of detail 7.3 here. So there's gonna be insulation in the CMU and there's probably gonna be insulation in the wall.

Okay, so let's not worry about trying to put insulation in the underside of the slab since we don't see anything called out. We've completed our takeoff of the crawl space sheathing, great. So let's go ahead and jump up to the first floor and let's go ahead and do the ceiling sheathing here at the guest room.

In order to do this, it may be helpful for us to hide all of these different takeoff items that are already here. So let's see if we can do this with a layer. You may remember, we may have looked a little bit at layers earlier in the class.

This particular PDF has many layers already on it from the design phase. That typically isn't always the case. So usually this column is kind of blank when you first open up the PDF and you're able to really create your own layers and organize them through like hierarchies of a kind of child within a higher folder.

But what we're gonna do right now is let's just create a layer and let's just call it add before. And we're just gonna call it temp layer for ceilings. And okay, great.

So what we're gonna do is let's actually hit the Z key on our keyboard and let's do a multi-select here and let's hit right click on all these takeoff items. Let's go into the menu under layers and let's assign all of these to this temporary layer for ceilings. We've done that.

And now if we wanna hide all these items so that we can easily do this ceiling takeoff without kind of clashing with the other things we have on the page, all we do is over on the left-hand side, we go into this temp layer for ceilings and we hit this I. And when we hit that I, that toggles all those takeoffs off and it gives me a totally blank sheet to work with. So let's go ahead and run our ceiling takeoffs in the guest room and music room. So to do that, we're gonna go back into the tool chest and in the tool chest, we are gonna grab our ceiling sheathing takeoff, our gypsum ceiling sheathing.

And let's just go ahead and run this on the entire interior here. These walls are gonna go up to the deck. We will do our takeoff within the confines of the walls here.

We're gonna go ahead and just get all of our rooms and we're gonna make sure that we get these openings. We are going to just go ahead and trace the rest of this room. And we will do the outside as well.

This is gonna be kind of like a stucco soffit here, but there is still going to be a gypsum or like a sheathing underneath it. We will go ahead and count that as well in our takeoff here. This is only a half wall.

So that is gonna count and we're just gonna run, continue to run the perimeter of this room here until we get back around to the closet. And there we go. We have done our ceiling takeoff here.

Just gonna go ahead and count this as well. All right, so that is our ceilings for the guest room. There wasn't, as we said, any specific material called out here, but once we go back and look at the section one on A4.2, we can see that this does appear to be a, we can see our wood joists and we know that we're gonna have like a plywood sheathing on top to serve as our roof.

And then we're just assuming that there's gonna be a gypsum sheathing underneath, which is what we've taken off. We will double check these notes here, number seven and number 10. So insulation at the roofs and the exterior walls and then number 10, the roof framing for the structural, which we've already done.

All right, great. So in the next video, we will take off the ceilings in the music room.