Division 08 / Estimated
Division 08 doors, frames, hardware and glazing estimating
Openings are a schedule trade. The plan tells you where a door is. Only the schedule tells you what it costs.
What we measure, and in what units
- EA doors by type, size and rating
- EA frames by type and the wall they set in
- EA hardware sets
- SF glazing and curtain wall
- EA specialty openings
What the deliverable looks like for this division
Every opening from the door schedule against the plan, so a door on the plan with no schedule entry is flagged rather than assumed. Hardware from the hardware schedule as sets. Glazing and curtain wall by area from the elevations with the system identified.
Scope items routinely missed on this division
Only someone who has priced the work knows what falls through the gaps. No competitor publishes this list.
- Hardware sets priced as sets, not as doors. Two identical doors with different sets are different money.
- Hollow metal frames set in masonry against stud, which are different frames, different anchors and different sequencing.
- Rated openings where the rating drives the door, the frame, the glazing and the hardware together.
- Access control and electrified hardware, and the boundary with Division 28.
Documents needed to price it
- The door, frame and hardware schedules
- Floor plans and elevations
- Window and curtain wall details
- The Division 08 specifications
Questions people in this trade actually ask
Do you reconcile the schedule to the plan?
Both ways. A door on the plan and not on the schedule, or on the schedule and not on the plan, is listed rather than resolved silently.
Are hardware sets in the door price?
No. They are their own count, because the set is what varies and what costs.
The service behind this
Estimating & TakeoffRelated divisions
Bidding Division 08 work?
Send the documents and the bid date. A written fee and turnaround come back before anything is measured.