Remodel Cost Estimator - The Basics Tutorial

Learn the Basics of using the Remodel Cost Estimator to estimate detailed remodeling costs for your projects.
Video Length: 03 minutes, 30 seconds

Video Topics

00:50 - Displaying/Hiding the Detailed Estimate Information
01:24 - Estimator Sections
02:15 - Estimator Calculations
02:45 - Hiding the Summary Breakdown

Video Transcript
The Remodel Cost Estimator is pre-built with 18 scopes of work and roughly 400+ common work items and costs that you will find on a typical remodel project.  

Displaying the Detailed Estimate Information

To display the detailed information for each scope of work simply click on the gray title block to open the detailed estimate information. 
 
To close the detailed information, simply re-click the title block to collapse and close the detailed estimate information for that scope of work.

Estimator Sections

  • A. Description of Work column is used to describe the work that is being performed. 
  • B. Quantity column is where you will input the quantity of work required based upon your field measurements of project quantities.
  • C. Unit column describes the unit of measure for the work. , For example, tile flooring is typically measured in SF.  The Unit column has a pre-built dropdown menu that you can use to quickly select your units of measure.
  • D. Unit Prices section is where you can input unit prices for labor, material & subcontracted work.​

Estimator Calculations

The calculations in the spreadsheet are quite simple, the Repair Cost Estimator uses your quantities of work that you provide and multiplies it by the unit costs to calculate the total Labor, Material & Subcontracted costs for that item and scope of work.
 
The estimate totals for each scope of work, labor material, subcontracted work & the entire project are then summarized at the top of the spreadsheet. 

Hiding the Summary Breakdown

If you want to hide the summary information at the top, you can simply click the icon to hide the summary and reclick to redisplay the summary information.
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