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My friends over at QuickEye, the new Plan Take-off tool for the Macintosh (and yes it works on Windows too but we’re all Mac Users here right?), have put together a bunch of videos to better aquaint building and remodeling company owners and/or lead estimators who are invested in the bottom line performance of the [...]

Up until now Mac Users who wanted a take-off tool to work with drawings from plan rooms or work with drawing that came from anywhere for that matter found themselves left out in the cold and they had to devote a machine (virtual or otherwise) to run the Windows OS with one of Windows based [...]

I’ve also written a little bit about the problem with canned estimating data before (On Using “Canned” Estimating Data) but while working with some contractor clients these past few weeks on both developing their own customized data and importing some data from some of the data books that are out there I picked up on [...]

“Canned” Estimating Data is the phrase I use (and I’m sure many other professionals do to) to describe using estimating data that comes from an estimating data books such as companies like R.S. Means, Craftman’s, BNI, or RemodelMax produce although it can also mean the data that comes with a new estimating program. As helpful [...]

360 Difference Estimating 4.0 for Macintosh, Windows and iPad* is finally here….well almost… This is the public beta were releasing and we have a special offer to any new users who join us while were still in the beta test period this December. Purchase 360 Difference Estimating for the the discounted price of $265.00 ($100 [...]

I’m often asked for recommendations regarding books on estimating techniques, not the data mind you, but the techniques and methods of estimating. Unfortunately there aren’t a whole lot of books out there to choose from but still there are some good ones that are well worth the time. On the top of the list I [...]

Way back 90′s I used to have personal web site on AOL and writing at that time what we’re really essentially blog posts years before I had ever even heard of blogs I wrote this: In the introduction to his book Leadership Is an Art, Max DePree says: "In some sense, every reader "finishes" every [...]

It’s been my observation over the years that framers often quote prices for their projects based on the project’s Square Footage which I’ve always considered a bad idea due to the inherent lack of accuracy (see The Hidden Danger of Square Foot Estimating). Then when they try to move on to bid interior finishing projects [...]

A couple of years ago in Fine HomeBuilding’s Breatime Forum a fellow wrote: “I live in houston and I am a trim carpenter. I do such a variety of things that I never have know the going price of some of the work that I do. I asked this same question here at FHB and [...]

I’ve just finished work on and published a new, and what should be the final version for now, of the Excel WorkbookThe Capacity Based Markup Worksheet (also known as the ” PILAO” Worksheet) which sprung out the PROOF Worksheets in Library discussion in the Journal of Light Construction Estimating Forum.