I estimated work for many years and I always visited the site. Not doing so is just criminal.

As far as why there's so much space above the drop ceiling....One answer is cost. You'd have to heat and cool those 17' if you didn't drop the ceiling.

There is very good estimating software out there. It's NOT open source and it IS very expensive.

I taught the data portion of the estimating class for Local 3 IBEW for many years. I stopped when everyone started asking me about the new software. At the time it cost $5k+ and I had no access to it. I had been using spreadsheets for estimating, but there was no way they could compare to the new software.

Sam


"Where are we going and why are we in this hand basket?"