Anyway, here I am an older dog in the industry, and am fascinated how Autosprink, despite drawings that are difficult to install from and lacking a lot of installation data that fitters used to benefit from, has risen to be a go-to program, even for estimating. One of the two simplest, but best industry lessons I learned (and they both came from the same boss) was “it’s all in the scope of work.” For pumps, I get pricing from one of the two pump suppliers I have established relationships with. On the other end of the spectrum, I had one estimator who would square foot an estimate, and in 20 minutes would have a number comparable with competitive numbers (If he didn’t miss a floor). With the cross-pollination in the industry regionally, over the years it was interesting to find versions of this method of estimating having migrated to other local sprinkler contractors, sometimes in a more simplified form, eventually on an Excel spreadsheets, but unmistakable where it originated from. A lot of effort went into this hand-calculation method, and it was accurate. Decades ago, with only rudimentary computer/calculators in existence, the sprinkler company I worked for spent years developing a very detailed and accurate method of estimating, incorporating many, many variables, and proven by empirical data.
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