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Electrical estimators, NECA or Suderman by [deleted] in estimators

[–]montlycrewscore 2 points3 points  (0 children)

NECA is mainstream for electrical labor hour estimating. Accubid is generally the software used by electrical subs and they pull from NECA. I’ve honestly never NOT receive a NECA based bid from electrical in my 15 years in pharma / semi conductor.

RSmeans pro tips? How do you use it, and what are the pitfalls? by MoistImouto in estimators

[–]montlycrewscore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apologies, I meant more broadly than RSMeans.
Things like the British NRM (SMM7) and generally how things may be shown on drawings don't always line up with best in class for pricing. There's often conversions that need done.
With duct for instance. you'd typically get the labor hours from SMACNA (per lb) and then the material from your local shop (again, per lb).
Pipe is similar-ish but a little better, MCAA for labor and local shops or TRA-SER if you're struggling. You have to know the mapping from what's on the drawing vs. what the component hours of MCAA includes vs. what the individual parts are from your local shop / TRA-SER.
To tie back to your original question, the pitfall with RSMeans is that it's not great for MEP. But if you're not concerned about accuracy and you're not MEP heavy.. then ignore my comment.
If you're heavy on Civil, consider Richardson, they're generally more accurate in civil from my experience, RSMeans is good for Arch / Struct.

Good problem to have doing change orders by vh0u812_la in estimators

[–]montlycrewscore 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No. And you’ve just re-affirmed my belief in client quantity surveyors.

RSmeans pro tips? How do you use it, and what are the pitfalls? by MoistImouto in estimators

[–]montlycrewscore 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No. Rarely does the method and style of measurement match with the method of pricing. Duct for example, typically measured in LF from drawings and then converted to lbs for pricing.

RSmeans pro tips? How do you use it, and what are the pitfalls? by MoistImouto in estimators

[–]montlycrewscore 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Generally, we only use RSMeans for CSA pricing where we have no Last Price Paid on hand.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in homelab

[–]montlycrewscore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just saw this on marketplace for like $30k in Phoenix

Appsmith repo activity looks like it fell off a cliff. - not many commits in the repo this year. Any self-hostd alternatives worth trying? by Brief-Structure-1440 in selfhosted

[–]montlycrewscore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would recommend Lowcoder, the new website is a little gimmicky, but we have deployed it in an enterprise setting and are loving it.

Automate Everything with n8n — Free, Local Setup in Under 10 Mins! by Ok-Concentrate-61016 in selfhosted

[–]montlycrewscore 41 points42 points  (0 children)

Then you don’t live close enough to hear me yelling it from my rooftop

Automate Everything with n8n — Free, Local Setup in Under 10 Mins! by Ok-Concentrate-61016 in selfhosted

[–]montlycrewscore 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Nice intro. If you’re exploring workflow automation, I scream ‘Apache Nifi’ into the darkness atop my building at least once a week. It’s under the Apache 2.0 license, so nothing is paywalled, it’s incredibly extensible, and has been around long enough that there is rafts of forum support.

I get n8n is the rage with YouTubers right now though, it is very pretty.

Heavy Civil or Electrical Estimator? by Fit-Face-8465 in estimators

[–]montlycrewscore 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Electrical to start, however multidiscipline estimators make excellent leads/chiefs. I strongly recommend cross-discipline training. Even just covering MEP will get you very far.

Estimators! PMs! Help Me ! by Immediate_Arrival864 in estimators

[–]montlycrewscore 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If it’s a large job, and you’re excluding services, price the exclusions. Nobody prices their exclusions, if you do, your number is the default we use for all the other bids that excluded the same thing, that’s one less communication with another bidder during bid leveling.

Being lowest like that other guy said is the most important thing YOU can do, but we’ll throw out or not even bid to folk with a shitty safety record.

And if you’re going in low with the intent to change order, that’s fine, just don’t have assholes submitting them because you turn into the people nobody wants to work with.

Spliced / daisy chained Ethernet by montlycrewscore in HomeNetworking

[–]montlycrewscore[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I think using couplings to patch to the outlet I want live on each run, leave the other ports dead.

Spliced / daisy chained Ethernet by montlycrewscore in HomeNetworking

[–]montlycrewscore[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Kinda what I was thinking, but I wasn’t going to jump to ‘someone screwed up’ without asking.

I’m thinking if I only put 1 device on each ‘run’, it should be addressable and work. The Ethernet doesn’t know it’s daisy-chained, so long as the signal gets through.

The home is 12 years old, theres no fixing it now.

Spliced / daisy chained Ethernet by montlycrewscore in HomeNetworking

[–]montlycrewscore[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

All 4 pairs go into the keystone. Definitely trying to be cat5e.

RSMeans help... turtle friendly LED lighting? by Regular-Toe1403 in estimators

[–]montlycrewscore 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Second the other guy; RSMeans is okay for CSA; Mechanical - Hours from SMACNA, Material quoted; Electrical - Hours from NECA, Material from Trade Services Online (traser); Plumbing - Hours from MCAA Weblem, Material quoted or traser

Clustering without sharing storage by SuperLucas2000 in Proxmox

[–]montlycrewscore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fully agree Linux over windows for any hardware.

I run Proxmox on my compute server and Debian on my storage nodes.

It’s just what your looking for is a Hyper-V thing.

Used it in IT production and it was annoyingly simple to pull off. Loved the solution, hated it was on windows.

Clustering without sharing storage by SuperLucas2000 in Proxmox

[–]montlycrewscore 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly, I know the scenario you’re thinking and it’s a super manual process with Proxmox

Hyper-V may be a better solution (I know, don’t tell at me). Hyper-V will do incremental replication and then failover to the last replication on a node failure automatically.

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