I’ve put together this 4 ½ minute “How-To” style video demonstrating a ridiculously simple way to get spot-on brick takeoffs.

I’ll show you a few tricks I’ve learned that really simplifies how to measure plans for brick takeoffs, that has a reliable waste factor automatically included.

As estimators, there’s actually just a few formulas we use to get brick order quantities from our plan measurements. I’ll show you the formulas I use when doing takeoffs by hand. Then, I’ll show-off my “Excel Formulas for Brick Takeoffs” spreadsheet (which I’ll send you for free if you want it), that does these calculations for you.

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One thing we’ve learned in this profession … there’s no estimator alive that can match the speed and consistency of well written Excel formulas.

You might be wondering why I’m sharing my estimating tricks and Excel spreadsheet for free.

There’s a few reasons, but here’s the main one. I believe there’s a lot of us estimators that may be doing br...