Scaling and Drawing: By hand, you’ll need pencils, markers, a measuring tape and a notepad. Or you can use RapidBid to review plans and take them off directly from your screen. Let’s look at how that manual method stacks up against RapidBid.ĭrawings: You need to click in and out of folders, select the right plans, create a new file, and then have those plans printed (adding a solid dollar value to your takeoff along with work hour value). That’s all down to the amount of work that goes into a manual takeoff for a plumbing quote. A full day spent on a task that might not even deliver any work for your firm. For larger projects with piping across multiple floors or even multiple properties across a neighborhood or large scale development, contractors can spend an entire working day on a manual takeoff. Before releasing RapidBid in the USA, we hired UCLA’s professor of business psychology to research how long contractors took to prepare a quote.įive hours was the average. ![]() And that’s not a number we pulled out of thin air.
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