Plumbing Takeoff

Plumbing Takeoff
• Plumbing is categorized under both real and
personal property.
• Consider only those part of plumbing which
will fall under category of personal property.
• Personal Property in plumbing are those
pipelines and equipment which have been
installed for specific purpose or as per the
requirement of the owner. All such property
are consider to have a MACRS life of 5 years.
contd…..
 Plumbing Takeoff
contd…….
• Common Toilets, Wash Rooms, Shower Areas,
etc are part of real property.

• An example will illustrate, how to identify the

plumbing personal property in a project:

Here we go………………….
 Procedure for Plumbing Takeoff
Step 1:
• Identify the drawings which are required for
the takeoff.
• Never neglect the drawing which shows the
“Fixture Schedule, Notes and Symbols”.
• Most of the time the personal properties are
mentioned under the heading “General
Notes”
Dwg. Name: Fixture Schedule, Notes and Symbols

General Notes
General Notes
Personal Property Details:
1.Orientation Room 1101.
2.Vending 1706.
3.Serving 2710.
4.BreakRoom 3710.
5.Serving 3118.
6.Men 4605 and Women 4606.
7.Caterer Staging 4803.
8.Caterer Prep 4804.
9.Mechanical Penthouse.
 Procedure for Plumbing Takeoff
Step 1: contd…..
• The General Notes column shows the new
piping infrastructure and fixtures as installed
at various locations.
• If the details are not available please asked
the concern manager or the client (as
applicable) about the same.
contd….
 Procedure for Plumbing Takeoff
Step 1: contd…..
• Apart from the General Notes, other details
which are available in the drawing are:
– Symbols and Abbreviations.
– Plumbing Fixture Schedule.
– Plumbing Drain Schedule.
Dwg. Name: Fixture Schedule, Notes and Symbols

General Notes Plumbing Fixture Schedule

Symbols and Abbreviations

Plumbing Drain Schedule

Symbols and Abbreviations

Following Pipes we generally

consider for the take off:
1. Soil or Sanitary Waste.
2. Vent Piping.
3. Cold and Hot Water
Piping.
 Procedure for Plumbing Takeoff
Step 2:
• Go through all the floor drawings and note
down the various piping sizes and the fixtures
as installed.
First Floor Plumbing Drawing
Personal Property in the First floor Plan

Personal Property as per

the General Notes
General Notes
Personal Property Details:
1.Orientation Room 1101.
2.Vending 1706.
3.Serving 2710.
4.BreakRoom 3710.
5.Serving 3118.
6.Men 4605 and Women 4606.
7.Caterer Staging 4803.
8.Caterer Prep 4804.
9.Mechanical Penthouse.
Detail of Equipment Schedule.

Never consider those

equipment as personal
property which are
provided by the vendor.
Vendor Provided
equipments are
considered as Real
Property.
Excel worksheet showing the list of the personal
property in each floor.
 Procedure for Plumbing Takeoff
Step 3:
• Convert the drawings into tiff format.
• Load the drawings in excel with the help of
vertigraph plugin to start the plumbing takeoff
for each and every floor.
• Count the number of fixtures in each and
every floor.
 Procedure for Plumbing Takeoff
Step 4:
• Calculate the piping takeoff.
• Consider dedicated piping only for those
equipments, which are considered under
personal property.
• Common pipelines need not to be considered
as personal property.
Example: Cold Water Pipeline Takeoff

Let’s Calculate the cold

water pipeline takeoff for
the following equipment.
Example: Cold Water Pipeline Takeoff
Detail of Equipment Schedule.

Never consider those

equipment as personal
property which are
provided by the vendor.
Vendor Provided
equipments are
considered as Real
Property.
Example: Cold Water Pipeline Takeoff
1. Identify the Personal Equipments
This is a Coffee
Vending Machine
and is provided by
the vendor. So we
These equipments are
will not consider this
personal properties
equipment as
personal property
Example: Cold Water Pipeline Takeoff
2. Identify the common pipeline.

Symbol and Abbreviation:

Symbol and Abbreviation:

Cold water Common Line.
Example: Cold Water Pipeline Takeoff
3. Identify the dedicated pipeline.

Symbol and Abbreviation:

Symbol and Abbreviation:

Cold water Common Line.
Cold water dedicated Line
 Procedure for Plumbing Takeoff
Step 4: contd…..
• Similarly calculate the following:
– Hot Water pipeline.
– Drainage Line.
– Vent Line.

(Note: in this example we have not consider the

drainage line, because it already exists. The waste
pipe is connected directly to the existing drain point.)
Example: Hot Water Pipeline Takeoff
1. Identify the common & dedicated pipeline.

Symbol and Abbreviation:

Symbol and Abbreviation:

Hot water Common Line.
Hot water dedicated Line.
Cold water Common Line.
Cold water dedicated Line
Example: Vent Pipeline Takeoff
2. Identify the common & dedicated pipeline.

Symbol and Abbreviation:

Symbol and Abbreviation:

Vent pipe dedicated line
Hot water Common line.
Hot water dedicated line.
Cold water Common line.
Cold water dedicated line
Quickly Review what
we have learn so far
with the help of
an example.
Quick Review for Pipeline Takeoff

Symbol and Abbreviation:

Vent pipe dedicated line.
Hot water dedicated line.
Cold water dedicated line.
Quick Review the Pipeline Takeoff
1. List of Equipment Schedule.
Quick Review the Pipeline Takeoff
2. All Personal Equipment.
Quick Review the Pipeline Takeoff
3. Identify Cold Water dedicated pipe line.

Symbol and Abbreviation

Cold water dedicated line.
Quick Review the Pipeline Takeoff
4. Identify Hot Water dedicated pipe line.

Symbol and Abbreviation:

Hot water dedicated line.
Cold water dedicated line.
Quick Review the Pipeline Takeoff
5. Identify Vent dedicated pipe line.

Symbol and Abbreviation:

Vent pipe dedicated line.
Hot water dedicated line.
Cold water dedicated line.
Step 6: A view of excel work sheet, after the takeoff
Step 7: Adding the length for vertical pipe to the
takeoff.
Assume certain % of
the horizontal pipe
length as vertical
pipe length. Here we
have consider it as
20%.
Add where ever it is
necessary.
Step 8: Input the Unit Prices for the Equipments.

Refer M&S section

62, page 2 for Pipe
line unit prices.

Refer Means or M&S

section 65 for
equipment prices.
Step 9: Input the Rough-in or Hook-up cost for the
Equipments. The cost associated
for fixing the
equipment by the
contractor is termed
as Rough-in or Hook-
up Cost.

These cost are

derived for each
equipment with the
help of MEANS.

Rough-in Cost of few

equipments is
already derived.
They are known as
Unit –M.
Step 8: Input the Unit Price, Current Cost, Local and
Trend Multiplier for the items.
Local Multiplier: Refer M&S
section 99, page 19.

Current Cost
Multiplier: Refer
M&S section 99,
page 3.

Trend Multiplier: Refer M&S

section 98, page 7.
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