Site work, utilities and crew travel on the estimate

Add Crew travel and it works out the driving distance from your office to the job — the drawing set's job address, else the lead's. It charges the miles past your free radius, both ways, for every round trip, and prints the sentence on the line: 184.6 mi each way × 2 × 13 trips × $0.76/mi beyond 25 mi = $3,153.70 on Dawson Hoover's shop. Past your service area, the line and the card's header both say so.

Past your stay-over distance the travel line offers + Per diem: lodging and meals for each person, nights and days, at your own rates — they start at the GSA standard rates. + Paid drive time prices the crew's hours on the road at the loaded wage from your Labor section. Set the round trips to what the crew will really drive, and the drive time follows.

A job 14.2 miles from the office prints "14.2 mi each way — inside your 25-mi free radius, so no travel charge." The line stays on the estimate, so nobody wonders whether travel was forgotten.

+ Add a line lists crew travel, land clearing by the acre, a building pad, dirt work by the load and the machine hour, a gravel or concrete driveway, equipment time with an operator, utility trenches for electric, water, sewer, gas or propane, power poles, a road bore, the water meter tap, temporary power, the electric co-op's line extension, a perc test, a conventional, aerobic or lagoon septic, the Oklahoma DEQ septic permit, a water well, a propane tank set, a post-tension slab, an equipment pad, builder's risk, a design fee, a buffer, and other site work of your own. Type to search it.

The building pad reads the footprint from the 3D builder, adds the apron past the walls, multiplies by the fill depth and a swell factor: 50′ × 70′ pad × 12″ ÷ 27 × 1.25 swell = 163 cu yd on the 40×60 shouse. Make the building bigger and the pad follows; type a yardage and the line says it was typed. A driveway is length × width at your rate.

On the Sheaffer shouse: a perc test and a conventional septic held as allowances until the soil test is back, a water well priced as depth × a per-foot rate plus the pump and tank, a water trench by the foot, and the co-op's line extension waiting on their quote. Each line says where its labor is: an installed rate, an allowance that covers material and labor, or the sub's own price.

Any site line can be Calculated from its measurements, held as an Allowance, or priced as a Sub's quote with the sub's name. Switch the septic to the quote when it arrives and the line's name, its sentence and its labor statement all change with it: "Sub's quote from Oak Hollow Septic: $6,200."

Site lines land under Services & add-ons as one group, Site, utilities & travel, with its own Remove these lines. Each one takes a markup in place (the design fee is the exception: it is taken without markup), carries its sentence into the cost breakdown, and counts in every total that adds up the services — the estimate, the list, the pipeline card and the customer's page.

The $ button on the card opens Site & travel pricing. This estimate changes the price on this job's lines only; clear a box and it goes back to the base. Base prices is what every new line starts from, and only admins and sales managers can change it. A rate is copied onto a line when it is added, so changing a base price never reprices an estimate already out.

Settings, Estimating, Site, utilities & travel holds where trips start (blank uses your company address), the mileage rate, the free radius, your service area, the distance past which a crew stays over, and the lodging and meal rates. The section appears for accounts that estimate in Leads 2 Build.

Where a published range exists, the starter price is its midpoint, and the range sits under the box: a trench at $8.50 a foot from HomeAdvisor's $5–12, a plumbing rough-in at $550 a fixture from Fixr's $450–650. Where none exists — a lagoon, a concrete driveway, the co-op's line extension, builder's risk, an equipment pad — no starter price ships, or it ships at $0: those lines start as the sub's quote. Your own numbers replace all of them.

On the A1 site plan, Site point places the road, the meter, the pole, the well, the septic tank and field, and the propane tank. Each point draws a dimension to the house; Site items lists every run, and a length you type when the trench must go around something is marked as yours. On the estimate, Price these runs adds a line for each run, and the line says "187 ft · measured on the site plan" with the math one click away.

Dirt work starts as an allowance: the pad's fill in truck loads plus a machine day. After you laser the site, the line's ⋯ menu › Site visit takes the loads, the price a load, the machine hours and the price an hour, shows "Replaces $5,250 with $30,100 (+$24,850).", and swaps them in one step. The line keeps the visit's date and note, and its log says what it replaced; Undo puts the allowance back.

Make any line but crew travel a buffer from its ⋯ menu: you always see it; with Fold into the price on, its dollars sit inside the customer's other lines (inside the Markup row, if you show markup as its own line); Show to the customer prints it as its own line; Drop this buffer takes it out of the price and keeps it on the estimate. On an Oklahoma job a septic line brings the DEQ septic permit with it. The design fee is taken without markup, so the customer reads it at its own price.