Structural Wood Post Takeoff and Analysis from Sheets S3 and S4 in Framing Plan Review

So, what we are going to look at now is some of the structural posts that hold up this structure, and to do that, we're going to go back to sheet 22, and we are going to sheet 23. We're going to look at sheet 23, and we're going to take a look at some of the posts that may be coming up from below or going up from this level up to the roof.

So, we can see some items at the corners here. We see a note number two. We see that in each corner.

Note number two is, let's see, just double 2x studs here. So, something that's probably going to get included just in our general kind of wall framing of the structural exterior, so we're not going to do any additional takeoff there, as we've already done our exterior structural framing. Six by six post here, that's likely something we have not captured already, so let's do a takeoff of some of these posts.

So, just looking, we see a six by six post here. We see an additional six by six post. We see another six by six, and then a four by six.

So, let's go ahead and start a count takeoff here. Let's go to our tools, and let's go to measurements, and let's go to counts. So, let's just start with the six by sixes.

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We've got a six by six post here. We've got another one here, and we've got another one here. Let's move over to the music room to see if there's any posts over here.

I see a four by six. I see some more double studs. So, I think that is good for our six by sixes right now.

Let's hit ENTER, and then let's go to the description of that particular takeoff, and we will remove the previous subjects, and we will call this six by six posts, and down at the specification section, let's remove what was there before. Let's go ahead and call this 061100 wood framing. I am also going to change the color to this kind of purple, as that is consistent with some of the other joists and structural framing that we already have shown here.

Let's see if there is a particular height on these that we need to track as well. Six by six posts. Let's see if there's a schedule or anything in the schedule.

It just talks about the hold downs. So, the hold downs are where we, on the concrete foundation below, is going to be where we would mount these posts and post them up to support the structure above. So, let's go to the structural sheet here and see if… Okay, so we just need to figure out the height between the top of the structural concrete and the next floor level.

So, typically that would be shown in elevation here, and let's see. We've got a under the guest bedroom here. Okay, so we don't necessarily have a foundation height elevation.

We can maybe just put a kind of ballpark guess to this if we can find something, but it actually doesn't look like we have a great height. So, okay, let's hold off on the heights for the structural posts. Sorry to kind of go down that rabbit hole, but typically there would be an elevation sheet, and you would be able to see the elevation at each of the floor levels, and you would just find the elevation at the top of this structural footing, and then you would find the elevation at the floor level above, and that would be the height of the post would be the difference between those two floor levels.

So, let's jump back and continue to do some takeoffs here. So, we've counted up our 6x6 posts. Now, let's go back to this properties.

Let's click on the 6x6 posts here. 6x6, we'll call them structural wood posts. All right, and let's just add this to the tool chest since we might have to replicate it for the 4x4 structural posts, and let's choose that, and let's go ahead and duplicate it, and we've duplicated the 6x6.

Now, let's go into our properties here. In our properties, let's go ahead and call this the 4x6 structural wood posts, and let's start counting any of those. So, we see one 4x6 post right here, nothing over here, no other posts that I can see.

Okay, great. So, now that we've done the posts on sheet S3, let's jump into sheet S4 to see if we have any posts there, and these would be from the kind of floor level of the guest rooms up to the roof level. So, if there are any posts.

Now, there may not be because this is all going to be kind of structural exterior framing. That's mostly just going to be carried by things like these kind of double studs on the corners, and king joists and header joists around any openings. So, we'll just do a quick cursory review to see if there are any posts, and I don't see any over in guest room area.

Looking into the music room, I am not seeing any posts here either. Alright, great. So, in the next video, we will look at the floor sheathing.

I'll see you then.