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02-11-2009, 07:58 PM #1
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alright everyone when i price a job need to go round every wall with tape measure any one got better way
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02-11-2009, 08:09 PM #2
If it's a small job, I use a tape.
If it's a large job I use a digital laser measure.
If it's a drawing, you can get a scale rule pen which is very quick or just use a scale ruler
http://scalex.com/uk/index.php?main_...7f66f35aa214b5
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02-11-2009, 09:00 PM #3
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nice one like the pen cheers
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02-11-2009, 10:09 PM #4
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Leica laser measures are good. http://www.laser-measure.co.uk/
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02-11-2009, 11:21 PM #5
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alright tony m had a look at this is that the sort of one you use
Leica DISTO ™ D2
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03-11-2009, 04:23 PM #7
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Got myself a D2 on the way YES SIR sick of going round houses with a tape hope it's easy to pick up cheers boys
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03-11-2009, 06:35 PM #9
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Sure am tony m want to get things up to date get faster and make life easier and pick up any wee tricks on the way
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I use a measuring wheel. Lufkin makes one that is cheap, but i found mine unreliable and lost about 600.00 C$ when it stopped counting one day while i measured out a job. My Rolatape [http://www.rolatape.com/] is a lot better but i can see how a laser measurer will be my next upgrade.
Plumb and Level are the framer's perogative ...I can give you flat and straight... www.lightrocktaping.com
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04-11-2009, 02:24 PM #11
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GOT MY D2 TODAY SUPER FAST DELIVERY MESSED ABOUT WITH IT FOR HALF HOUR AND THATS ME GOT IT TOP CLASS SAVE LOTS OF TIME WORKS OUT YOUR SQUARE METERAGE OF A ROOM IN 2 MINUTES EASY WELL WORTH IT GOOD FOR GIVING THE DOG EXERCISE TO RUNNING AFTER THE RED DOT HA HA
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I use a leica disto, brilliant bit of kit, I can go round and add all the wall lengths up first with laser, then measure the height once to give you total sqm, saves loads of time. My mate bought a bosch one, but it will only do a wall at a time, takes loads longer.
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Pricing
When i price a job i take the floor meters and depending on the house/job/plan i am looking at i charge beetween £10 and £15 per square metre! Quick and simple
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I use the floor area because its quick and simple! The harrder the job will b the higher the rate so a 200sqm house with a lot of combs and externals comes in about say £14 the sqm which gives u £2800 for the house no going round measuring walls,steels and stuff
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I measured the sq meterage of plasterboard in a block of flats recently and worked a price out with some corner tapes thrown in. It took me around an hour with a scale rule, calculator etc.
Later on that night I looked again and took the floorspace from the plan and multiplied by £14.50 which took me 60 seconds.
It could be strange or maybe even coincidental but there was only £30 of a difference between the two prices.Your messages are really important to us
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I was just trying out another method, like beermonster did on recommendation from a surveyor to see if it really worked. It was just unusual that there was only a difference of around 1% from my original measure.
tread on my toecaps anytime you want tonyjust remember to call next time youre up this way and I'll put the kettle on.
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