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How every square foot
of floor in the building
got counted once

TOUR
The property

A quick service restaurant — dining room, vestibule, service corridor and crew room.

Industry

Food service / Multi-site

What runs on the twin

Floor finishes, area takeoff, phased capital work

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About this building

Capital projects teams running a multi-site refresh where the floor is most of the budget. This is a twin we built and keep, not an account we hold. Finishes are applied to live geometry and clipped to a room boundary, so one room can change without the rest of the slab changing with it. The area of each patch is the area that gets priced.

The problem: the floor is most of the budget

A retile is priced per square foot, so the square footage decides the number. It was being taken from an old drawing set that no longer matched the building, and the waste allowance was a percentage somebody remembered using last time.

On a programme running across many restaurants, a few percent of error compounds into a figure worth arguing about.

What the twin holds

The floor slab, and every room boundary that sits on it, so a finish can stop where a room does.

What came out of it

An area per room as each finish was applied, a materials figure with waste added, and the rooms that were deliberately skipped named rather than forgotten.

Retiling the dining room

USE CASE

A finish applied per room, with the area counted as each one is done. The dining room with the existing tile shown on the actual floor slab, then swapped for a replacement finish that stops at the room boundary rather than washing across the whole floor plate. The area for each room is listed as it is applied: dining, vestibule, the service corridor, the crew room. The total lands as a materials figure with waste added, and the rooms that were skipped are named.

The refresh as a capital line. The tile programme placed in a fiscal year alongside the other work due.

USE CASE

Floor condition is logged against the room, so the case for retiling is a history rather than an opinion. Slip complaints and mop-up callouts sit on the same room the scope covers.

  • Pricing a finish change:
    The area is taken off the model, room by room, so the order quantity has a basis.

  • Seeing it first:
    Two tile options on the real floor, in the real room, before a sample box is ordered.

  • Phasing the work:
    Decide which rooms close in which order, and price each phase on its own.

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