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I finally figured out my whole takeoff process was backwards after a $4,200 mistake
For a couple years I was measuring off the PDF plans first and then walking the job later to check my numbers. Last month on a tenant buildout near Dayton I missed two partitions because the architect's revision never made it into my set, and that error cost me about $4,200 in extra framing labor and a very unhappy client call. What tipped me off was my foreman asking why the plan I printed was dated three weeks before the one he had on site. So I flipped the order: walk the space first, mark up the real conditions, then go back to the screen. It's slower up front but my takeoff error count dropped from around six per job to one or two. The tool didn't fix this, my process order did. Curious if anyone else here does the site walk before the digital takeoff, or am I the odd one out on this?
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derekp704h ago
Funny thing is this same order problem shows up everywhere. My wife meal plans from recipes online and then gets to the store and half the stuff is out of stock or the produce looks bad, so she ends up winging it anyway. My buddy built a whole budget in a spreadsheet before he ever looked at his actual bank statement. See the real thing first, then write it down, works way better than the other way around. Your foreman with the newer print was basically the grocery store shelf telling her the list was wrong.
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