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Repairs estimates

Turn a finished mitigation job into a complete rebuild scope. Tell Wave what got opened up, room by room, and it prices the repairs.

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Turn a finished mitigation job into a complete rebuild scope without naming a single trade. Tell Wave what got opened up, room by room, and it prices everything that goes back: drywall, paint, flooring, base and trim, cabinets, countertops, doors, electrical and plumbing.

A repairs estimate prices the rebuild: everything that goes back after someone dried, demoed or abated. Write it once mitigation is done. While drying is still underway, use a water estimate.

Start a repairs estimate

  • Ask for it. On Home, type or dictate into the command box, for example "repairs estimate for Jordan Park at 482 Sycamore". Or open the job and tell Wave in the chat beside it. "Repairs", "rebuild", "reconstruction" and "put-back" all work.
  • Take Wave's offer. When an estimate on the job is done, Wave may offer the next one the loss usually needs, with a button such as Start the Repairs estimate. One tap starts it and uses one estimate credit, and Wave's reply confirms it. Not now puts the offer away without spending anything.

On a fire job, ask Wave for the rebuild in the job's chat. New estimates start in chat.

How the conversation goes

Wave does the estimating. You tell it what happened.

There's no need to name trades or line items. For each room, give Wave the size and describe what got opened up, in your own words. Wave works out the rebuild for that room and asks focused questions where your description leaves something open. Kitchens and baths take a few more, because there are more decisions in the room.

Wave states any assumption it made so you can correct it, and adds short notes right on the estimate to the lines reviewers most often ask about.

Starting from the water estimate

If the job already has a water estimate, the repairs estimate goes faster, because the demo lines on the mitigation estimate already say what got opened up.

Wave comes back with the proposed rebuild first, room by room with a total, then asks the judgment calls the water estimate can't answer. You approve the proposal before Wave builds anything.

Wave leaves out what the mitigation estimate already billed. If some of that work belongs on the repairs estimate too, tell Wave and it adds it.

Overhead, profit and trade minimums

When Wave builds a repairs estimate, it adds overhead and profit and trade minimums where they apply, then tells you what it applied and the new total. If a later edit changes the total, Wave recalculates and tells you what moved.

To remove either one, delete that line. To bring one back, ask Wave. See Overhead, profit and minimums.

Fire rebuilds

A fire rebuild is a repairs estimate: same conversation, same rebuild scope. Ask for it on a job that has a fire estimate and it's labeled Fire Rebuild. Fire mitigation and smoke cleaning are their own fire estimates. See Fire estimates.

Other work on the job

  • Roofing has its own estimate type. See Roofing estimates.
  • Specialty trades such as HVAC, window units and re-pipes go on the estimate as bid items, priced from a subcontractor's written quote.
  • Other exterior work goes on the estimate as a bid item, using a subcontractor's written quote.

Drying

Drying stays on the water estimate. The job's drying log lives on the Drying tab, on plans that include drying logs. See About drying logs.

Changing scope later

Tell Wave what changed and it changes only that. Rooms you didn't mention carry forward as they are, including lines you added or edited by hand. Ask it to drop a room and it drops that room.

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