Every material for a new house

What the figures assume

• Every exterior wall is built as this one type.
• Partitions run across the house, wall to wall, evenly spaced along it.
• The slab covers the whole footprint to the outside faces of the walls.
• The footing runs under the exterior walls' centre line.
• A gable roof with its ridge along the longer side of the footprint.
• Windows are spaced evenly along the walls, with a 900 mm (about 3 ft) sill.
• Window: each rough opening is 25 mm (1 in) bigger than its window each way, the takeoff's own figure.
• Framed exterior wall: the corner count is read only by the plates and headers row, which runs wall by wall.
• Framed exterior wall: the junction count is read only by the plates and headers row, which runs wall by wall.
• Framed exterior wall: the door count is read only by the plates and headers row, which runs wall by wall.
• Framed exterior wall: the windows' width is read only by the plates and headers row, which runs wall by wall.
• Framed exterior wall: the doors' width is read only by the plates and headers row, which runs wall by wall.
• Stud partition: each door's own area already comes off both faces in the length; the takeoff's flat allowance a door would take it off twice.
• Outside door: one row of the takeoff is left out, protecting an occupied house's floors while an old door comes out; a new house has no finished floor at that stage.
• Outside door: one row of the takeoff is left out, the waste of the old door and frame; a new door replaces nothing.
• Window: one row of the takeoff is left out, a saving against an old window's U-factor; a new house has no old window to compare.
• An interior door is counted; its casing is a planned assembly.
• Each corner is counted on one of its two walls, each partition on the wall it meets; each opening's width is its rough opening, the drawn unit plus 25 mm (1 in) as the window takeoff frames it, each kind's mean on the wall.
• Openings are not deducted from this row: the boards round a door or window are cut from full-height boards, so the count is across the whole outside face.
• Compound for both faces of the partitions, each door's own area taken off each face.

• Every exterior wall is built as this one type.
• Partitions run across the house, wall to wall, evenly spaced along it.
• The slab covers the whole footprint to the outside faces of the walls.
• The footing runs under the exterior walls' centre line.
• A gable roof with its ridge along the longer side of the footprint.
• Windows are spaced evenly along the walls, with a 900 mm (about 3 ft) sill.
• Window: each rough opening is 25 mm (1 in) bigger than its window each way, the takeoff's own figure.
• Framed exterior wall: the corner count is read only by the plates and headers row, which runs wall by wall.
• Framed exterior wall: the junction count is read only by the plates and headers row, which runs wall by wall.
• Framed exterior wall: the door count is read only by the plates and headers row, which runs wall by wall.
• Framed exterior wall: the windows' width is read only by the plates and headers row, which runs wall by wall.
• Framed exterior wall: the doors' width is read only by the plates and headers row, which runs wall by wall.
• Stud partition: each door's own area already comes off both faces in the length; the takeoff's flat allowance a door would take it off twice.
• Outside door: one row of the takeoff is left out, protecting an occupied house's floors while an old door comes out; a new house has no finished floor at that stage.
• Outside door: one row of the takeoff is left out, the waste of the old door and frame; a new door replaces nothing.
• Window: one row of the takeoff is left out, a saving against an old window's U-factor; a new house has no old window to compare.
• An interior door is counted; its casing is a planned assembly.
• Each corner is counted on one of its two walls, each partition on the wall it meets; each opening's width is its rough opening, the drawn unit plus 25 mm (1 in) as the window takeoff frames it, each kind's mean on the wall.
• Openings are not deducted from this row: the boards round a door or window are cut from full-height boards, so the count is across the whole outside face.
• Compound for both faces of the partitions, each door's own area taken off each face.

This page counts materials; it does not check strength. Stud sizes, spacings, footings and the slab are taken as you set them, never sized or approved for a load.