Creating Flooring Finish Takeoffs for Carpet, Hardwood, and Tile in Bluebeam Revu Step by Step

Now that we have completed our first takeoff of the hardwood base, now let's go ahead and move forward with some of the other finishes within these two rooms. So what we're going to do is we're going to collapse our markup bar over here and let us recenter and let's do a takeoff of the flooring within these two rooms. We can see the guest room here and we can see this note number 16.

Note 16 denotes carpet, so guest room will be all carpeted. And then over to the music room and we see note 15. Note 15 is calling for hardwood finish floor.

We know what finishes we need. Let's go ahead and grab an area takeoff and start to do these. Again, we're going to do a takeoff, create a tool in the tool chest, and then continue to use that tool in case we need it on the rest of the project.

So let's grab an area takeoff here and let's just start up in this closet. We will hit all four corners of this closet with the area takeoff and we'll see it show up. Now I personally already have a lot of different tools and defaults created in my Bluebeam settings, so when I do a takeoff there's already going to be some properties associated with it.

So you may not have that same situation, so don't get alarmed if what you are doing is showing up in like a different color than mine, because either way we'll show you how to change it, create new tools, and create new defaults. We've just done the area takeoff of this closet here. Now let's make this into a tool so we can use it for the rest of the project.

So to make it into a tool, again we click on the specific takeoff and we can go over to this properties cogwheel over on the left hand side and make the changes there. However, in addition to that properties cogwheel, we also can use the properties bar up at the top to make a lot of these changes also. So a couple of different options for how you can manipulate things like line color, opacity, line width, fill, and hatch, either over on the properties cog or the properties bar.

You may remember the properties bar from when we looked into our volume measurements, and this is where we added the depth for the volume measurement earlier in the class. And to make sure that this properties bar is turned on, it's just as simple as clicking on the tools drop down and going to toolbars and then toggling on or off that properties toolbar. We can toggle it off and we can see that that bar went away.

And if we toggle it on, we can see that the properties toolbar is back. So let's make some of these changes. Let's change the line color here.

I don't particularly like that brown. Let's make this blue. And if we needed to change the opacity of it, we could do that.

Let's turn that opacity down a little bit actually. Turn it down to a 50. And we can go over and change the fill as well.

We'll make that blue also. And it has a hatch to it. Let's take that hatch away.

We'll hit the hatch drop down and we'll turn that to none. Great. We've got our little section of area here and we have altered some of the properties up in the properties bar.

Now when we want to make this into a tool, we still will have to go to the properties cog on the left hand side to be able to save it to a tool there. So let's go ahead and change the subject here. Let's call this sheet carpeting.

And we don't need to give it a label because we're not going to use labels today. And let's hit this with a specification section here. 09 and it's going to be 09 dash or space 68 space 16 sheet carpeting.

We can go ahead and type that in. Now that we have this created, let's go ahead and add this to our tool chest. We'll hit my tools and add it to our tool chest.

And again, when we first add something to the tool chest, it is going to show up in markup mode. Meaning that I could grab this exact area of takeoff from my tool chest and place it on the plans in different locations. That would be helpful if I was repeating many different closet areas like this, but that's not what I'm doing.

So I do not really need to utilize that that way. Which is helpful because in the my tools area, there are two modes that you can use. So there's markup mode and there's also properties mode.

So again, we are going to take this item and turn it into properties mode. So that any other time I want to do a carpeting takeoff, I simply hover over the tool, click on it, and it will arm me with my carpet takeoff and allow me to get started. So let us continue our guest room takeoff here.

I'm just going to fill in underneath this door because it is a sliding door. There will be carpet under there. So fill in that little rectangle and then let's just go ahead and do the rest of the room.

So grab a corner and just start tracing the outside of the room here. This is something we could also use dynamic fill for, which we will do in future takeoffs. But for right now, let's just do it manually.

We're going to run this carpeting along this half wall here. We're going to run it up to the… we'll run it through the built-in as the built-in may be built on top of the carpet here. And we'll run it through this built-in down over into this corner, up past this door on this bathroom wall, back up to the initial closet, over across the face of that closet.

And there we have our carpet takeoff. We've completed the carpet takeoff here. If we want to do a double check, we can go to our markup bar and we can see where this showed up.

All right, sheet carpeting, my total area is around 318 square foot. That's great. So let's collapse this markup bar and let's keep moving.

You can see that we omitted the bathroom because assuming there's going to be tile in the bathroom, we can do a takeoff for that. And now we have the music room. So I already have this area takeoff for carpeting.

Instead of having to create a whole other one the way that we just did, we could simply right-click on the carpeting takeoff and we could duplicate it. And then we could change this to hardwood. So instead of having to rebuild an entire tool, we could copy another area takeoff to be able to create a similar area takeoff with a different finish.

We right-clicked to duplicate this carpeting and now we have a new takeoff. And in this new takeoff, we can go into the properties bar and we can just change the information. We can call it hardwood flooring, let's say.

Call that hardwood flooring. Maybe we'll change the color of it to something that looks more like wood. So let's go with like this, you know, dark red orange color here.

And we will have to go down to the specification section and also change it as well. So hardwood flooring is going to be 096410 hardwood flooring. So again, you guys will be typing these in.

I am just able to select from a drop down since I've already typed some of these in. Now we have the hardwood flooring takeoff. Now let's go ahead and do the area in the music room.

So going from side into the door here, down into the corner. We will go into these doors as well. Up around these little walls in between the doors.

Sometimes you will have to really double check and pay attention to which line you are snapping to. If you do need to zoom in sometimes to really make sure you're snapping to the right lines, you can do that. We'll do this and let's run the flooring through this door just to make sure we have it all covered.

And let's finish up in the top corner here. Alright, there we have it. We have just done the carpeting takeoff in the guest room and the hardwood takeoff in the music room.

Lastly, let's just do some tile in the bathroom and then we will be totally done with floor finishes. Before we move forward, let's go ahead and just go back to our tool chest here. We can see that we have our carpeting takeoff.

We can see that we have our hardwood takeoff. Let's make a quick tile takeoff as well. We'll go ahead and right click on the hardwood.

We will hit duplicate. We'll click on that new one and then we'll go to the properties of it. And let's just call it tile flooring.

We can type in tile flooring here. And we can go ahead and give this a different color as well. And we'll go down to that specification section and see, okay, 093013 ceramic tiling.

We'll create that as a tool. Then we'll go ahead into the bathroom and let's assume that we're going to be running the tile underneath the vanity and up to the tub. Let's say this is a drop-in tub, so we won't be tiling there.

So let's just say that that'll be our tile in the bathroom. All right, great. There we have our flooring finish takeoffs for the music room and guest room completed.