Learn how to review and organize your work after completing exterior wall assemblies. The article details the steps of saving your work, reviewing markups, changing the order of your work, and moving columns around for a better organization of your estimates.
Key Insights
- The article discusses the importance of regularly saving your work to prevent loss of data and preserve the progress of your project.
- You can enhance the organization of your work by altering the order of the data and moving columns around. This can help in visualizing the structure of the estimate and identifying remaining tasks.
- The article also outlines the steps to perform takeoffs of exterior materials, such as stucco finish and composite siding, providing a practical demonstration of the process.
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Now that we have just completed our exterior wall assemblies, one, let's take a quick break to save our work. So go ahead and save that work to make sure that we capture everything. I just saved mine, so go ahead and do that.
And before we jump right into the exterior, let's just take a quick look at our markups to see what we have captured so far. So here we just want to highlight how you can change around how everything is organized. If we click on subject, that's going to take it from ascending to descending order.
Same is going to go for any of these other columns. What we can also do is we can move columns around. So let's go over to specification section, and let's grab that column, and let's bring it towards the front.
We grab specification section, and we pull it all the way next to our subject. And here we then have the ability to filter by ascending or descending order of our specification section. So that's personally how I like to organize my estimates.
All of my 06s, 08s, 09s together really allows me to kind of visualize how I have this estimate put together, and figure out what other spec sections and other work that we still need to attack. So with that, let's jump out of our markups bar, and let's go to some more takeoffs. We've done a good amount of interior items already, and we just started on the exterior framing.
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So how about we jump to the exterior of the building, and we do some exterior takeoffs. So let's go into our thumbnails here, and let's go to our elevations. So this west elevation number one, as well as the south elevation number two, let's focus on these, and let's do some takeoffs of our exterior materials.
We just did the exterior framing, so it will be helpful for us to do some of the exterior finish material as well. Just as a note, we only did the exterior framing for this particular area. We will go ahead and finish it off for the bottom side of the guest room, as well as the roof parapet.
But for right now, let's go ahead and we'll do the whole exterior, and then we'll follow up with the rest of the exterior framing that is behind this as well. So what we've got here is our stucco finish over wood stud construction. And what other notes do we have here? Control joint, or number 15.
Okay, great. And then this note three, we have composite siding. So it looks like our two main exterior materials are going to be a stucco finish, as well as this composite siding.
And while we look over at the music room, we can see these notes number 12 and number 5. Number 12 is calling for a metal fascia panel, similar to the metal roof. So that tells us that we have a metal roof over top of this, and we have some fascia panels that we can take off. And then number 5 here is going to be a metal finish that is continuous across the bottom of the open span.
So to get a better understanding of what is going on at this music room here, let's back up one sheet and look at the section cut of it. We can see that we have a radiused ceiling and roof, and it appears that this will be that standing seam metal that we talked about. So yep, number 4, standing seam metal roof across the top.
Number 3, roof framing per the structurals, which we will take a look at. And then this is that metal fascia edge panel that was noted. And we can take a quick look at that detail on D7.4, just to wrap our heads around it a bit.
We have eave detail saying that, okay, we have our metal roofing up at the top here, and that turns into a metal angle flashing and fascia panel. We will probably leave that roofing takeoff for later on, since there's some complexity to it. But it's always good to really wrap our head around what it is that we're going to be taking off before we start to do it.
All right. So in our next video, we will perform our takeoffs of the exterior walls. I'll see you all then.
