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DOORS, FRAMES,
AND HARD WARE
F O R A C O N C E P T UA L E S T I M AT E
Gary Terrell CPE has been involved in construction for approximately 25 years starting
with residential painting and roofing during his college summers. He switched to high
end residential construction management after college, and changed to
1) Introduction
commercial construction after moving
2) Types and Methods of Measurement
to San Francisco. In San Francisco
3) Specific Factors to Consider
his career as a Commercial Construc Frames
tion Estimator began and took root; he
Doors
received first rate training and found
Hardware
the variety and complexity of his proj LEED
ects intellectually stimulating. After
returning to the East Coast he was for- 4) Overview
5) Risk Considerations
tunate enough to work for a company
6) Ratios and Analysis
with equally rewarding projects and a
7) Miscellaneous Information
dedication to the advancement of their
8) Sample Take Off and Pricing
employees skills and talents. He has
9) Sample Sketches
a BA in Music from Vassar College in
Poughkeepsie, NY.
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A C O N C E P T UA L E S T I M AT E
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SPECIFIC FACTORS
TO CONSDIER:
and therefore most commonly and efficiently produced, and least costly door
frames are manufactured with throat sizes
made to fit around a typical partition such
as 4-7/8 (3-5/8 stud with one layer of
5/8 gypsum wall board on each side).
Frames with throats to accommodate other
common partition dimensions are also
readily available and remain competitively
priced. But, when large or unusual, or both
large and unusual partition dimensions
need to be accommodated, the additional
cost to produce these custom frames can
rise very steeply, as will the cost of the
labor required to install them.
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metal doors without a fire rating are typically more expensive than pre-finished
wood doors; however, when a fire rating
greater than 20 minutes for the opening is
required, hollow metal doors become the
less expensive option because wood doors
require a fire resistive core to achieve the
fire rating.
nearly all other consumer goods, door hardware comes in varying degrees of quality and
in an array of finish options. Most commercial clients and designers seem content
to keep up with the Joneses and therefore
projects of similar function and level of finish
will likely have similar hardware. This is a
fair and defendable assumption provided no
instructions to the contrary have been issued.
The case for this argument and any other
conceptual estimate assumptions is best made
proactively before other expectations have
been formulated.
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RISK CONSIDERATIONS:
Because of the great variety of door assemblies and the varying degree to which they are
used from one project to the next, there are
no reliable ratios that can be used as a back
check. If you have been working on very
similar projects - for instance a number of
similar hospitals, or a string of similar office
buildings, or similar apartment buildings then comparing the ratios from completed
projects against the similar project you are
currently working on can be a beneficial back
check. Also, the overall cost of similar door
assemblies can be utilized as a useful comparison for your current estimate.
MISCELLANEOUS
INFORMATION:
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