Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Estimating Building Costs
Learning to estimate buildings is not quite the same as learning a language, but it is often better to begin with a little book rather than a large one.
This is a small book as compared with The New Building Estimator, of which twelve edi tions were issued up to date, but will be of great service to thousands who might at first consider the larger work too comprehensive. This book will act as a feeder to the other. An endeavor has been made here to present facts in plain language.
I gained my knowledge of estimating through experience; but on looking back I can see how much time and guesswork would have been saved had I simply had a small reliable manual to give a fair idea of what others had accomplished in a certain number of hours; and what amount of material is required for the different parts of a building.
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