I am considering an addition on my home and was planning on performing an estimate to see if it’s financially viable. (I am going to do as much if not all of the work myself.) Does anyone recommend using a particular software? or should I just do a take off estimate from my chief architect software package. Any ideas for a handy home owner.
thanks in advance for any advice. p.s. I am in Fanwood, New Jersey, Union County.
Tim
Tim
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Greetings Tim,
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If you're doing the labor yourself and you have a take off from Cheif, I'd use the take of to get a rough idea.
It probably won't be dead on but should be close.
An estimating program isn't going to help much because you'll have to set it up with your local and current prices plus change all the assumptions for fit and finish items.
Figure out what you want to put in the addition in terms of fixtures, flooring, trim, windows, doors, etc and get local prices, a program isn't going to do that any easier for you then a spread sheet.
Get prices from the sub's you'll use, add in the material from the take off, and go from there.
A point to ponder: I can virtually guarantee you that the estimate for writing ANY of the popular estimating software packages was off by a factor of two. You gonna trust your estimates to that?