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I drew a floor plan for an accountants office. It's 115' x 55' and has 20 offices a reception area and 260+ feet of hallways.
I'm figuring the amount of carpet and base for it all.
......I borrowed the shops Leica/Disto D810 Lazer to do the measuring and because I wanted to compare it to my $30 unit.
The $865 dollar one made a hall measurement of 82' 7 and 13/16"
..........same as my $30 one and mine has a red dot just as bright
....mine doesn't have a camera and a 32 reading memory or Bluetooth...... But it cost 28x less.
I'm figuring the amount of carpet and base for it all.
......I borrowed the shops Leica/Disto D810 Lazer to do the measuring and because I wanted to compare it to my $30 unit.
The $865 dollar one made a hall measurement of 82' 7 and 13/16"
..........same as my $30 one and mine has a red dot just as bright
....mine doesn't have a camera and a 32 reading memory or Bluetooth...... But it cost 28x less.
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Tarp it the get some rest.
Got the trailer empty before the rain.
Strange...
Had the old fridge repaired. $375 for a compressor fan motor and labor. The brother n I just got done moving it to the garage. Had to remove the fridge doors to get it into the garage.
Making space in the garage led to another project. Reorganized the garage and got it all cleaned up. Took the back cover off the fridge and hit the guts with the leaf blower to get all the cobwebs n gunk that builds up over the years. Even after dude vacuumed up a bunch of stuff when he did the repair, a bunch more junk blew out. Leaf blower for the win.
Prolly should get rid of that ironing board too cus I guarantee you I’ll never use it. Lol
Almost forgot the best part. While moving the fridge through the garage door, with the fridge doors off, my watermelon fell out and split. It was the juiciest most perfectly ripe melon ever. I took a break and went inside and sliced the melon up. So good.
Just got a call. New fridge should be here within the hour.
Making space in the garage led to another project. Reorganized the garage and got it all cleaned up. Took the back cover off the fridge and hit the guts with the leaf blower to get all the cobwebs n gunk that builds up over the years. Even after dude vacuumed up a bunch of stuff when he did the repair, a bunch more junk blew out. Leaf blower for the win.
Prolly should get rid of that ironing board too cus I guarantee you I’ll never use it. Lol
Almost forgot the best part. While moving the fridge through the garage door, with the fridge doors off, my watermelon fell out and split. It was the juiciest most perfectly ripe melon ever. I took a break and went inside and sliced the melon up. So good.
Just got a call. New fridge should be here within the hour.
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Uneventful day for me.
I cleaned up the layout of the accountant's office that I measured up yesterday. To figure the amount of carpet and base to order, I felt I needed to spend the time to draw it up accurately. By using scaled measurements, I can also back check on myself in case I missed a measurement somewhere.
I drew it up with a pencil and used an Engineers scale on poster board instead of graph paper. Graph paper wasn't going to work on this job measure because it was just to big. Outlining and writing over my pencil lines in ink makes the rooms, halls and walls stand out better, both for me estimating materials and also for the installers organizing or planning how the installation will proceed once it's started.
Anyway, the layout looks much better now. I've never measured up a commercial job for the store, for estimating materials. I'm probably going a little bit overboard, but it will help the installers when the time comes. There's a lot going on there, but thankfully many of the rooms are 11' 10" or 11' 11" wide. That's going to help big time.
I measured up a house today for Cortec. Monday I have a one room measure in town, then another one 30 miles away, in an office that's going to have carpet tiles and vinyl base.
There was a previous installer that did the measuring for this store. He was an installer but had knee issues and couldn't work anymore installing floor so he did their measures.
The fella decided to start driving trucks and I sort of fell into place because I had a measuring tape...
....well that and a few other installation related qualifications.
The guy that previously did the measuring, would bring to the store a list of carpet cuts or square footage.....
I'm speaking literally just the carpet cuts and the total amount of material required, like...
Bedroom one, 12 ft 9 in
Bedroom two, 13 ft 9 in
Master bedroom 15 ft 7 in
Living room 18 ft 2 in
He would then add on the fill piece to the list. I always hated getting a job order with just the length of the carpet and some numbers I didn't trust.
When I draw things up for the shop I draw a layout of the house and a second sheet that has my exact room measurements.
For each room I label them exact measurement and cut length so the installer can see that I added three or four inches.
I figure if they can see my exact measurements and then see a cut length right next to that, they'll know that I added that much material. I think it just makes them more confident that they can make the cut that I've given them.
I cleaned up the layout of the accountant's office that I measured up yesterday. To figure the amount of carpet and base to order, I felt I needed to spend the time to draw it up accurately. By using scaled measurements, I can also back check on myself in case I missed a measurement somewhere.
I drew it up with a pencil and used an Engineers scale on poster board instead of graph paper. Graph paper wasn't going to work on this job measure because it was just to big. Outlining and writing over my pencil lines in ink makes the rooms, halls and walls stand out better, both for me estimating materials and also for the installers organizing or planning how the installation will proceed once it's started.
Anyway, the layout looks much better now. I've never measured up a commercial job for the store, for estimating materials. I'm probably going a little bit overboard, but it will help the installers when the time comes. There's a lot going on there, but thankfully many of the rooms are 11' 10" or 11' 11" wide. That's going to help big time.
I measured up a house today for Cortec. Monday I have a one room measure in town, then another one 30 miles away, in an office that's going to have carpet tiles and vinyl base.
There was a previous installer that did the measuring for this store. He was an installer but had knee issues and couldn't work anymore installing floor so he did their measures.
The fella decided to start driving trucks and I sort of fell into place because I had a measuring tape...
....well that and a few other installation related qualifications.
The guy that previously did the measuring, would bring to the store a list of carpet cuts or square footage.....
I'm speaking literally just the carpet cuts and the total amount of material required, like...
Bedroom one, 12 ft 9 in
Bedroom two, 13 ft 9 in
Master bedroom 15 ft 7 in
Living room 18 ft 2 in
He would then add on the fill piece to the list. I always hated getting a job order with just the length of the carpet and some numbers I didn't trust.
When I draw things up for the shop I draw a layout of the house and a second sheet that has my exact room measurements.
For each room I label them exact measurement and cut length so the installer can see that I added three or four inches.
I figure if they can see my exact measurements and then see a cut length right next to that, they'll know that I added that much material. I think it just makes them more confident that they can make the cut that I've given them.
I hope they pay well for measuring.Uneventful day for me.
I cleaned up the layout of the accountant's office that I measured up yesterday. To figure the amount of carpet and base to order, I felt I needed to spend the time to draw it up accurately. By using scaled measurements, I can also back check on myself in case I missed a measurement somewhere.
I drew it up with a pencil and used an Engineers scale on poster board instead of graph paper. Graph paper wasn't going to work on this job measure because it was just to big. Outlining and writing over my pencil lines in ink makes the rooms, halls and walls stand out better, both for me estimating materials and also for the installers organizing or planning how the installation will proceed once it's started.
Anyway, the layout looks much better now. I've never measured up a commercial job for the store, for estimating materials. I'm probably going a little bit overboard, but it will help the installers when the time comes. There's a lot going on there, but thankfully many of the rooms are 11' 10" or 11' 11" wide. That's going to help big time.
I measured up a house today for Cortec. Monday I have a one room measure in town, then another one 30 miles away, in an office that's going to have carpet tiles and vinyl base.
There was a previous installer that did the measuring for this store. He was an installer but had knee issues and couldn't work anymore installing floor so he did their measures.
The fella decided to start driving trucks and I sort of fell into place because I had a measuring tape...
....well that and a few other installation related qualifications.
The guy that previously did the measuring, would bring to the store a list of carpet cuts or square footage.....
I'm speaking literally just the carpet cuts and the total amount of material required, like...
Bedroom one, 12 ft 9 in
Bedroom two, 13 ft 9 in
Master bedroom 15 ft 7 in
Living room 18 ft 2 in
He would then add on the fill piece to the list. I always hated getting a job order with just the length of the carpet and some numbers I didn't trust.
When I draw things up for the shop I draw a layout of the house and a second sheet that has my exact room measurements.
For each room I label them exact measurement and cut length so the installer can see that I added three or four inches.
I figure if they can see my exact measurements and then see a cut length right next to that, they'll know that I added that much material. I think it just makes them more confident that they can make the cut that I've given them.
Uneventful day for me.
I cleaned up the layout of the accountant's office that I measured up yesterday. To figure the amount of carpet and base to order, I felt I needed to spend the time to draw it up accurately. By using scaled measurements, I can also back check on myself in case I missed a measurement somewhere.
I drew it up with a pencil and used an Engineers scale on poster board instead of graph paper. Graph paper wasn't going to work on this job measure because it was just to big. Outlining and writing over my pencil lines in ink makes the rooms, halls and walls stand out better, both for me estimating materials and also for the installers organizing or planning how the installation will proceed once it's started.
Anyway, the layout looks much better now. I've never measured up a commercial job for the store, for estimating materials. I'm probably going a little bit overboard, but it will help the installers when the time comes. There's a lot going on there, but thankfully many of the rooms are 11' 10" or 11' 11" wide. That's going to help big time.
I measured up a house today for Cortec. Monday I have a one room measure in town, then another one 30 miles away, in an office that's going to have carpet tiles and vinyl base.
There was a previous installer that did the measuring for this store. He was an installer but had knee issues and couldn't work anymore installing floor so he did their measures.
The fella decided to start driving trucks and I sort of fell into place because I had a measuring tape...
....well that and a few other installation related qualifications.
The guy that previously did the measuring, would bring to the store a list of carpet cuts or square footage.....
I'm speaking literally just the carpet cuts and the total amount of material required, like...
Bedroom one, 12 ft 9 in
Bedroom two, 13 ft 9 in
Master bedroom 15 ft 7 in
Living room 18 ft 2 in
He would then add on the fill piece to the list. I always hated getting a job order with just the length of the carpet and some numbers I didn't trust.
When I draw things up for the shop I draw a layout of the house and a second sheet that has my exact room measurements.
For each room I label them exact measurement and cut length so the installer can see that I added three or four inches.
I figure if they can see my exact measurements and then see a cut length right next to that, they'll know that I added that much material. I think it just makes them more confident that they can make the cut that I've given them.
And when are you going to get into metric measurements like the rest of the world?
And drive on the left hand side of the road?
Me too.
We're going to negotiate this one. She's not expecting to pay me a hundred bucks. She just told me to keep track of my time.
That sounds like a lot of work… There are no architect’s AutoCAD drawings/finish schedule that you could work off of? We used to do a lot of big commercial work and had to get bids in before the spaces were even built. That’s all we ever did for estimating and bidding jobs. Then if we got the job we would field measure before making any cuts. Never had to draw our own plans. Any major mistakes on the drawings and the Architect is to blame.Uneventful day for me.
I cleaned up the layout of the accountant's office that I measured up yesterday. To figure the amount of carpet and base to order, I felt I needed to spend the time to draw it up accurately. By using scaled measurements, I can also back check on myself in case I missed a measurement somewhere.
I drew it up with a pencil and used an Engineers scale on poster board instead of graph paper. Graph paper wasn't going to work on this job measure because it was just to big. Outlining and writing over my pencil lines in ink makes the rooms, halls and walls stand out better, both for me estimating materials and also for the installers organizing or planning how the installation will proceed once it's started.
Anyway, the layout looks much better now. I've never measured up a commercial job for the store, for estimating materials. I'm probably going a little bit overboard, but it will help the installers when the time comes. There's a lot going on there, but thankfully many of the rooms are 11' 10" or 11' 11" wide. That's going to help big time.
I measured up a house today for Cortec. Monday I have a one room measure in town, then another one 30 miles away, in an office that's going to have carpet tiles and vinyl base.
There was a previous installer that did the measuring for this store. He was an installer but had knee issues and couldn't work anymore installing floor so he did their measures.
The fella decided to start driving trucks and I sort of fell into place because I had a measuring tape...
....well that and a few other installation related qualifications.
The guy that previously did the measuring, would bring to the store a list of carpet cuts or square footage.....
I'm speaking literally just the carpet cuts and the total amount of material required, like...
Bedroom one, 12 ft 9 in
Bedroom two, 13 ft 9 in
Master bedroom 15 ft 7 in
Living room 18 ft 2 in
He would then add on the fill piece to the list. I always hated getting a job order with just the length of the carpet and some numbers I didn't trust.
When I draw things up for the shop I draw a layout of the house and a second sheet that has my exact room measurements.
For each room I label them exact measurement and cut length so the installer can see that I added three or four inches.
I figure if they can see my exact measurements and then see a cut length right next to that, they'll know that I added that much material. I think it just makes them more confident that they can make the cut that I've given them.
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We always waited until the walls were up. Architect plans were wrong too often. When you special order, you must have enough. I was only short one time in all the years on a job I measured, and it was in a house.
That’s a nice luxury but on most commercial jobs that’s a luxury we didn’t have. Bids have to be in based on drawings. Jobs get done in phases where the fist phase needs to be complete before the final phase is even started. Add a couple of percent and don’t make any cuts. Usually walls will be moved but the overall
square footage will remain the same. Make sure you get a hold of the final revision of the finish schedule before going out to measure. If the client makes major changes after the bid they have to pay.
Hi can you help me out?
Did a lot of churches. The drawings on the new ones were never right.
Gas hit $4.09 today, Lucky the old Nissan get 25 in town and 35 on the hiway.
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Gas here went to $4.59 here.
90 mile round trip to get my infusions. Good thing the old Nissan gets 35 mph highway. 25 city
