Product Review

Now in its third edition, this estimating guide offers comprehensive coverage of all aspects of plumbing:

• Residential, commercial, industrial, and medical systems
• The most common plumbing materials and methods, subsystems and components
• Pricing quantities for an estimate and calculating markup
• Preparing bids
• Best techniques for using Means Plumbing Cost Data
• Sample takeoff and estimate forms

Includes special sections on change order analysis, estimating for additions, and alterations to existing systems. Also covers budget and assemblies estimating.

A complete sample estimate shows you how to perform each step in the estimating process, making it easy to follow the authors’ methods.