Quantity surveying is about working out the correct amount of materials plant and labor that you will need for your home renovation project. As an example of a quantity surveying practice, you may need to know how much paint you will need to cover the walls of your house.
Firstly, what you would do is find out the dimensions of the walls are multiply them together to get a square meter please get in contact with us and let us help you with your next project. Then you would take the square metre coverage of the paint to tell you how many liters of paint would be required to cover the walls.
You would then multiply the litres of paint required by the cost of a litre of paint to get you the total cost of painting the walls.
This is a basic quantity surveying task.
Another simple quantity surveying task might be trying to work out how many tiles will be required for a bathroom floor. Simply multiply the length and the width of the room to a game that work out the square metre of the floor area.
Divide the square metre of the room by the dimensions of the tiles add this will give you how many tiles are required for the bathroom floor. It is always a good idea to add on some allowance for wastage which might be an extra few tiles or a percentage of the total required.
For example, 10% waste over and above the square area of the floor.
These types of quantity surveying practices have been around for a long time. The two above examples of very basic. Quantity surveying goes in-depth in a lot more detail on larger projects.
Larger projects require all different types of measurements to be taken from drawings and put into bills of quantities so that an estimator can work out the cost of the items.
Some other Home Improvement quantity surveying might be how many bricks will be required to build a retaining wall and how much concrete will be required for retaining wall foundation.
Simply take the length of the wall and X the height to again get yourself a square metre. Then divide the metre squared area by the dimensions of the bricks to work out how many bricks you need.
Next used in a linear metre of the wall and times it by the width and depths of the concrete footing. This will give you the metre cube all volume of concrete required to do the job.
Taking into consideration the quantity surveying takes a lot of time skill and understanding of the construction industry to make sure that the cost and quantities of a project are correct it is advisable that you hire a quantity surveyor when thinking about doing any home renovations.
They will be able to help you with more than just costing and may also be able to help you with project management putting together a team to build or complete your home renovation project as well.
At Measure Manage, we provide a range of quantity surveying services for all types of projects. Projects such as commercial developments, residential developments, mine sites, infrastructure projects and much more. Please get in contact with us and we can help you with your next project.
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