Takeoff Template for Excel: Columns, Waste and a Revision Log
Copy the columns, a six-line filled example, check totals, waste and a revision log into a blank workbook. No download and no prices, just quantities you can trace.
Takeoff workflow and scope
This is where a takeoff gets its method. The main guide walks a small building by hand in CSI order, with the inputs printed, and covers reading the drawing set first, turning net quantities into order quantities with waste and stock sizes, and the checks to run before a quantity becomes a price. The template guide lays out the columns a takeoff sheet needs, a filled example in quantities, unit conversions, a check total and a revision log, so a count does not go stale when an addendum arrives. Use them to set up a method, train a new estimator, or decide whether to measure on paper, on screen or send the set out. The trade takeoff guides apply the same method to single trades.
What ships with every package
- Editable Excel or CSV, unlocked and ready to price
- Color-coded marked-up PDFs of the sheets measured
- Written assumptions, inclusions and exclusions sheet
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What Is a Takeoff in Construction? How One Is Built, Step by Step
A takeoff is the measured list of counts, lengths, areas, volumes and weights behind every bid. See one small building taken off step by step, then checked line by line.
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