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ShowMe Tutorial System Requirements: * 1024 x 768 or higher video resolution required. * To listen to video tutorial - Sound card and speakers or headphones Introduction - How to Use This Book, 5 Part I - General Painting Costs Baseboard, 43Beams, 45Bookcases and shelves, 48Cabinets, 52Ceilings, 57Closets, 88Corbels, 92Cutting-in, 92Decks, 94Doors, 95Fascia, 118Fence, 123Fireplaces, 127Firewood boxes, 128Floors, 129Garage door backs, 137Gutters & downspouts, 138High time difficulty factors, 139Mail box structures, 140Masonry, 140Molding, 153Overhangs, 159Pass-through shelves, 162Plant-on trim, 162Plaster or stucco, 168Pot shelves, 172Railings, 173Registers, HVAC, 182Roof jacks, 183Roofing, 184Sheet metal, 196Shutters or blinds, 201Siding, 202Stairs, 219Touchup, brush as required, 222Trellis or lattice, 223Valances for light fixtures, 224Walls, 225Window screen frames, 276Window seats, 277Window sills, 277Windows, 278Window conversion factors, 292Wine racks, 293 Acid wash gutters & downspouts, 296Airblast, compressed air, 296Burn off paint, 297Caulk, 298Cut cracks, 298Fill wood floors, 299Putty, application, 299Sand, 299Sandblast, 302Scribing, 309Strip, remove, bleach, 311Unstick windows, 312Wash, 313Waterblast (Power wash), 315Window-protective coating, 315Wire brush, 316 Part III - Industrial, Institutional and Heavy Commercial Painting Costs Conduit, 318Decking and siding, 326Doors, hollow metal, 330Ductwork, 331Fire escapes, 348Fire sprinkler systems, 349Grates and grilles, 350Ladders, 354Masonry, 354Mechanical equipment, 356Piping, 357Radiators, 371Structural steel, 372Tank, silo, vessel, or hopper, 400Walls, concrete, tilt-up, 412Windows, steel factory sash, 418 Adhesive coverage, 422Wallcovering application, 424Borders, 424Flexible wood sheet and veneer, 425Surface preparation, wallcovering, 425Vinyl wallcovering, 426Wall fabric, 430Wallpaper, 434 The best paint estimates are always custom-made for a particular job. Theyre based on the contractors actual productivity rate, material cost, labor cost, overhead percentage and profit expectations. No estimating book, no computerized estimating system, no estimating service can possibly account for all the variables that make every job and every painting company different. Only a skilled estimator using professional judgment and a proven estimating system can produce consistently reliable estimates on a wide variety of painting jobs. Inside the back cover of this book youll find an envelope with a compact disk. The disk has National Estimator, an easy-to-use estimating program with all the cost estimates in this book. Insert the CD in your computer and wait a few seconds. Installation should begin automatically. (If not, click Start, Settings, Control Panel, double-click Add/Remove programs and Install.) Select ShowMe from the installation menu and Dan will show you how to use National Estimator. When ShowMe is complete, select Install Program. When the National Estimator program has been installed, click Help on the menu bar, click Contents, click Print all Topics, click File and click Print Topic to print a 28-page instruction manual for National Estimator. Part I: General Painting Costs Part III: Industrial, Institutional and Heavy Commercial Painting Costs Each section is arranged alphabetically by operation. If you have trouble finding the tables you need, use the Table of Contents at the front of the book or the Index at the back of the book. Once youve found the right table and the appropriate application method, you have to select the correct application rate. For each of the application methods (brush, roll, mitt or spray), the tables show three application rates: Slow, Medium, or Fast. Thats a very important decision when using this book, because each application rate assumes different manhour productivity, material coverage, material cost per gallon, hourly labor cost, labor burden, overhead and profit. Your decision on the application rate to use (or which combination of rates to use) has to be based on your evaluation of the job, your painters and your company. Thats where good common sense is needed. Figure 1 shows crew codes, labor costs, labor burdens, material discounts, and profit for each of the three production rates for painting. The Slow application rate in Figure 1 assumes lower productivity (less area covered per manhour), a lower labor cost (due to a less skilled crew), a lower labor burden (due to lower fringe benefits), a lower discount on materials (because of low volume), higher overhead (due to lower volume) and a higher profit margin (typical on small repaint or custom jobs). Figures in this Slow application row will apply where painters with lower skill levels are working on smaller or more difficult repaint jobs. Look at the Fast row in Figure 1. These estimates will apply where a skilled crew (higher hourly rate and larger fringe benefits) is working under good supervision and good conditions (more area covered per manhour) on larger (volume discount on materials) and more competitive jobs (lower profit margin). Figures in the Fast application row assume high productivity and lower material coverage, (unpainted surfaces absorb more paint), like that of a residential tract job. Each of the three application rates is described more completely later in this section. Figure 1The basis for painting cost estimates in this book. Manhour productivityLabor cost per hourLabor burden percentLabor burden dollarsLabor cost plus burdenMaterial price discountOverhead percentProfitSlow (1P)Low$13.5029.5%$3.98$17.4820%19.0%16%Medium (2P)Average19.7535.4%6.9926.7430%25.0%12%Fast (3P)High25.7540.8%10.5136.2640%31.0%7%Notes: These rates are for painters. Hourly rates for wallcovering are different. See page 29. Slow, Medium and Fast jobs are defined on page 13. Labor burden percentages used in this book are summarized on page 31. National Estimator uses hourly rates in the Labor cost plus burden column. National Estimator shows productivity rates (Slow, Medium and Fast) and copies the words Slow, Medium or Fast to your estimate. It also copies the crew productivity code, either 1P (Slow), 2P (Medium), or 3P (Fast) to your estimating form. National Estimator allows you to enter any percentage you select for overhead and profit. Customizing Your CostsEvery company has a different combination of worker speed and experience, taxes, benefits, spread rates, equipment needs, percentage for overhead, and profit margin. These are the cost variables in paint estimating. This book is designed so you can quickly and easily adjust estimates to reflect actual costs on the job youre estimating. Its important that you read the rest of this section before using the cost tables in this book. Thats the only way to get from this manual all the accuracy and flexibility thats built into it. When you start using the cost tables in this book, I suggest you circle numbers in the Slow, Medium, or Fast application rate rows that best fit your company and your jobs. To improve accuracy even more, write your own figures in the blank row below the Fast row in each table, like Ive done in Figure 2. A Practical ExampleFigure 2 is part of an estimating table taken from Part I of this book, General Painting Costs. Im going to use it to show how to customize estimates to match your actual costs. In Figure 2 Ive circled some of the costs I plan to use in a sample estimate and calculated others. In column 1, Labor SF per manhour, Ive circled 675 because I feel the journeyman painter assigned to this job can paint walls at the Fast rate of 675 square feet per hour. Thats the number I plan to use for my estimate. In column 2, Material coverage SF/gallon, Ive reviewed my past performance and I expect coverage will be about 275 square feet per gallon of paint. So Ive circled that figure. In column 3, Material cost per gallon, Ive circled 21.90 for my cost per gallon for flat water base latex (including tax and an allowance for consumable supplies), based on a 30 percent discount from the retail price. So far, so good. That completes the first three columns, what I call the pricing variables. Now we can begin on the unit cost estimate, columns 4 through 9. Each of these columns show a price per 100 square feet of wall. Well start with column 4, Labor cost per 100 SF.Notice that Ive entered 3.11 for this column. Heres why. Look back at Figure 1. Throughout this book the painting labor rate for Fast work is assumed to be $25.75 per hour. See page 29 for the wallcovering application rate. I cant use the labor cost per 100 SF for Fast work because the journeymen on my job earn $21.00 per hour. That pay rate is between the Medium and Fast pay rates as shown in Figure 1. To calculate the labor cost per 100 SF, divide $21.00 by 675 and multiply by 100: 21/675 = .0311 x 100 = 3.11. In column 6, Material cost per 100 SF, Ive circled 7.96, the number in the Medium row. Since Ive used numbers in the Medium row in both columns 2 and 3, I can take the figure in column 6 for material costs directly from the table, without any calculations. In column 7, Overhead per 100 SF, Ive calculated the overhead dollar value by adding the labor cost, labor burden and material cost then multiplying that sum by the Medium overhead at 25 percent: $3.11 + $.92 + $7.96 = $11.99 x .25 = $3.00. In column 8, Profit per 100 SF, Ive calculated the profit dollar value by adding the labor cost, labor burden, material cost and overhead then multiplying that sum by the Medium profit at 12 percent from Figure 1. The result is $3.11 + $.92 + $7.96 + $3.00 = $14.99 x .12 = $1.80. Using Your Good JudgmentOf course, judgment is required when using these tables, as it is when making any estimate. For example, if your journeymen painters earn the top rate of $25.75 but work at the Medium production rate or slower, your labor cost per unit will be higher than the highest cost listed in column 4. An adjustment will be required. Because figures in columns 7 and 8 are percentages of figures in columns 4, 5 and 6, you have to be careful when you blend costs from different rows. Lets look at an extreme (and unlikely) example. Suppose you use costs from the Slow application row for columns 4 (3.38), 5 (.99) and 6 (8.37) of Figure 2. The total of those three costs is $12.74. Then you decide to use overhead from the Fast row because your overhead is about 31 percent of cost, not 19 percent of cost as in the Slow row (Figure 1). Fast overhead is listed as 3.99 in Figure 2. The correct overhead figure is $3.95, 31 percent of the sum of Slow costs in columns 4, 5 and 6. Be aware of this small discrepancy and calculate figures for all the categories yourself if extreme accuracy is essential. Converting Unit PricesThe last column in Figure 2 shows the total cost per 100 square feet of wall. Some estimating tables in this book show a total cost per 100 linear feet (such as for baseboard) or total costs per unit (such as for doors). To convert a cost per 100 square feet to a cost per square foot, move the decimal point two places to the left. Thus the cost per 100 square feet for the Fast rate in Figure 2 is $18.06 or about 18 cents per square foot. General QualificationsIts important that you understand the conditions the tables are based upon. I call these conditions the job qualifications. A qualifications statement follows each estimating table to help you understand whats included and whats excluded. Please read those qualifications before using costs from this manual in your estimates. The following points apply to all tables in this book:Included Costs * Minor preparation, both time and material. Normal preparation for new residential construction is included in the Fast row and for new commercial jobs in the Medium row. Minimal preparation is included for repaint jobs in the Slow row. * Equipment such as ladders, spray rigs and brushes are included in overhead for the Fast rate (residential tracts) or Medium (commercial) work. Add equipment costs at their rental rate for Slow (repaint) jobs. * Equipment costs such as ladders, spray rigs, etc. for Slow (repaint) jobs. Add these at their rental rate whether or not you own the equipment. * Extensive surface preparation. Add the cost of time and materials needed for more than normal preparation work. Also add time to remove and replace hardware and accessories, protect adjacent surfaces, and do any extensive setup, cleanup, or touchup.(See the discussion of SURRPTUCU on the next page.) * Mobilization or demobilization * Excessive material waste or spillage * Equipment rental or placement costs * Scaffolding rental and erection costs * Commissions, bonuses, overtime, premium pay for shift adjustments (evening work), travel time or per diem. * Work at heights above 8 feet or beyond the reach of a wand or extension pole.(See the table for High Time Difficulty Factors on page 139.) Surface PreparationThe Preparation estimating tables that follow Part I: General Painting Costs, apply to both interior and exterior surfaces. Surface preparation is one of the hardest parts of the job to estimate accurately. Any experienced painter can make a reasonably good estimate of the quantity of paint and time needed for application. But the amount of prep work needed will vary widely - especially for repaint jobs. Some will need very little work. Others will take more time for prep than for painting. Preparation work for new construction jobs is relatively standard and consistent.Youll have to mask cabinets before spraying sealer on wet area walls, caulk at the baseboards, putty the nail holes in wood trim, and occasionally use a wire brush to smooth and clean a surface. The time required for this work is fairly predictable. Labor cost for normal preparation of unpainted surfaces in new residential construction is included in the Fast labor costs and for new commercial construction in the Medium labor cost. The cost of materials for normal surface preparation on unpainted surfaces is included in the sundries allowance thats part of the Fast or Medium material This is the most complete, authoritative and reliable unit cost guide ever made available to paint estimators. No matter what types of work you estimate, no matter what your costs are, this book will help you produce consistently reliable painting estimates in dollars and cents. Here you have accurate estimates for coating any common surface with any type of paint, whether application is by brush, spray, roller, or mitt: * Manhours per 100 square feet or 100 linear feet whether the job is new construction or custom repaint. * Material coverage rates that apply whether the job is new construction or custom repainting. * Material costs that reflect the discounts you expect to receive. * The labor costs per 100 square feet or linear feet, no matter what hourly wage you pay and no matter what your overhead percentage. * The profit margin to include (based on your own profit goals). This book isnt a substitute for judgment. Its not a simple way to do in minutes what an experienced estimator might not be able to do in hours. But this book is the best guide youll ever find if you have to estimate any type of painting, whether residential, industrial, commercial, or institutional. Dennis D. Gleason brings 15 years of painting business experience to this manual, having worked as a painter, field superintendent, estimator, contract administrator, project manager and director of marketing. After earning the title Certified Professional Estimator form the ASPE (American Society of Professional Estimators), he taught estimating for the Associated Builders & Contractors and lectured at San Diego State University, where he earned his degree. Free Estimating Disk EnclosedMonthly price updates on the Web are FREE and automatic all during 2007.Inside the back cover of this book you'll find National Estimator, a CD-ROM with all the cost estimates in the book plus an easy-to-use estimating program for Windows. National Estimator works just like a book. 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