Explore the meticulous process of conducting a stucco takeoff on a building's exterior and transitioning to composite siding. Understand the crucial role of details like the specification section and the importance of precision during the polygon cutout process.
Key Insights
- The process begins with a review of notes to ensure all elements are accounted for, including the composite siding for all recessed window planes.
- The stucco takeoff tool can be duplicated to create a composite siding takeoff tool in the tool chest. The tool is then saved as a default to be used in future area takeoffs.
- Attention to detail is paramount, especially when performing polygon cutouts around windows using the Bluebeam software. This ensures all the corners are perfectly accurate which in turn guarantees the precision of the entire process.
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So, we have just completed our stucco takeoff on the exterior. Now, let's finish out the exterior with some of the composite siding. First, we'll do a quick review of all the notes, just to make sure that we're capturing everything.
So, we see number 3 here, and number 3 is calling out for composite siding at all recessed window planes. Okay, so we've got 3 all along the music room, and a little bit over here. Let's go into page 11 here, and it looks like we also have this same note, number 3, the composite siding.
And then, going up to the west elevation, we also see number 3. And just confirming that is the same composite siding. So, great, we have our material that we're going to take off. Now, let's go ahead and create ourselves a takeoff item and get moving.
So, what we are going to do is go into our tool chest, and we're going to select our stucco takeoff, since it was an area takeoff here. And let's go ahead and duplicate this one. And we're going to change the duplicate into our composite siding takeoff.
So, let's go ahead and type in composite siding. And we'll go down to color, and we'll grab a dark green, let's say, just to make it stand out quite a bit from the brown of the stucco. And none is going to be our hatch.
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And then, specification section here, this one is going to be 074646 fiber cement siding. So, let's go ahead and grab that. So, we have our tool in the tool chest, and let's also save this as a default.
Again, when we save something as default, anytime we go to do an area takeoff, it is going to use the properties that we've just filled into this bar for any area takeoff. So, we created a tool, and we also saved it as the default. Might be a little bit overkill.
Typically, you only have to do one of those, but we've done it anyway. And let's just start taking off this composite siding here. So, we're going to grab this little bump out at the guest room.
We're going to go ahead and do this siding at the music room. And let's just run all of this. We are going to cut the siding short here because there is a metal fascia panel down at the bottom.
And just to confirm that, we will go into sheet number 10 here. And zooming out at this cut through of the music room, we can see that there is this detail down at the bottom. So, my assumption is that we're really just going to run our siding to a certain point, and then this corner assembly is going to fill in.
And let's see, we've got number 5,24-gauge galvanized sheet metal. Okay, great. Let's just double-check our detail pages to see if there is any specific detail there.
We've got some window and door details. Here we have some railing details. Go into page 17 here.
Got some flashing and waterproofing. Page 18. And we've got a skylight soffit eave detail.
All right, it doesn't look like anything in particular. So, I think we are in good shape here of just holding that siding up to allow that fascia panel to sit in. And with our windows, let's go ahead and do our polygon cutout again.
So, we're going to grab each of the corners of these windows, zoom in and make sure we got it right here. All right, and let's go ahead and do the next one. Polygon cutout is still selected.
Make sure we're getting the outside of that window. And again, just making sure that we are snapping to all of these corners. That is a very helpful feature of Bluebeam to ensure that everything is done perfectly accurate.
Jumping over into sheet 11 here. Let's go ahead and do this window as well. So, we'll go back to our area takeoff.
Since we've saved it as the default, our composite siding takeoff is automatically going to pull up when we hit area, which is very helpful for us. And it looks like it's asking if I want to fill all this in. So, yeah, let's just fill it in.
And then we'll hit the polygon cutout as well. So, probably saved us a little bit of time just being able to fill that whole area and just cut out inside of it. There we go.
And then we'll go ahead and grab this little section of composite siding as well, where the balcony is. Now, let's double check, I believe. Let's come back to this.
We see this column right here. So, let's take a look at the floor plan and see what the extent of this stucco should be. All right.
So, maybe that column is just sitting right here and then the siding will only be around this door area. All right. That makes sense.
Let's go ahead and go back. And let's just finish out this stucco here. Just going to delete this one and start it over again.
We'll run this all the way down to the ground here. Make sure that that is correct. Finish out that.
Make sure the corners are lining up. All right. Great.
Let's just do a quick zoom in. Make sure we've got this accurate. And it looks like we do.
And is there a little section of stucco down there as well? Or of siding? It looks like there is. Let's go ahead and grab that as well. All right.
So, we've got our siding on the south elevation. Let's go up to the west elevation. And we'll grab this bump out here and bring it down.
Okay. That's great. And then this is just going to be a cut out of siding.
But it is going to go all the way down to the raised floor, finished floor level. It will likely run down to the finished floor. So, let's run it over there.
And let's go ahead and bring it over. We'll hold the shift key down and slide this over. So, we've got that.
We'll bring it up around these windows here. Back down to the bottom. Bring it over again.
We will adjust these lines shortly. There we go. Up around this door.
Over to the top of the door. Down to the finished floor again. Directly over.
And back up the window. Definitely a tricky bit of cut out work that we have to do here. But we've got to ensure the accuracy of our work.
And we'll just go right over to this control joint line. And then straight up with the siding. And then we will wrap the rest of this area here.
And then we can go ahead and clean up some of our lines. So, let's zoom out and look down at these. And make sure that they are straight.
This corner looks to be a little bit out of whack. Let's go ahead and try to straighten that up a little. Pull that down one more notch there.
Let's pull this one down to even it out. All right. That one seems straighter.
Great. And then this one needs to be pulled out a little bit as well. Okay.
That looks good. All right. That looks great.
Let's continue in the next video.
