The square footage on the invoice is only as good as the map behind it

What’s inside

• Mapping the affected area on day one

  Boundaries, materials and dry reference points drawn and measured on the first visit, before anything is moved or removed.

• Material by material, square foot by square foot

  Flooring, pad, drywall, baseboard and cabinets measured separately, because each one drives a different line and a different decision.

• The map as the basis for the scope

  Turning measured wet areas into scope lines, so every quantity on the estimate can be pointed to on a drawing.

• Updating the map as it dries

  Shrinking wet areas recorded visit by visit, which is also the record that justifies moving and removing equipment.

• Removal decisions and the photos behind them

  Why a material was taken out rather than dried in place, recorded at the moment the decision was made.

• Square footage that reconciles

  Map, scope and invoice carrying the same quantities, checked before submission so no reviewer finds the difference first.

The measure it works from

Measure

Collected margin per job

Which means

What was actually paid on a job after every reduction, less the labor, equipment, materials and office time the job consumed, including the hours spent defending the invoice.

Compared against

The invoice total that was submitted.

Every figure in the document is illustrative, produced by one internally consistent model, and the document says so on its own cover.

The Moisture Map