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Build the scope source list
Collect the current documents and identify which source controls when information conflicts.
Made for General Contractors
Check Demolition Scope Before Pricing
40 min
Intermediate
Planning a Renovation
Review demolition limits, safety dependencies, responsibilities, exclusions, and unknowns before carrying costs into the estimate.
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Catch unclear removal limits and costly handoff gaps before pricing.
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What you'll do
This is the plan inside your prompt. Add your details first. Then follow these steps with ChatGPT or Claude.
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Map removal limits
Break the demolition package into specific areas and assemblies instead of reviewing it as one broad line item.
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Check demolition dependencies
Review the work that must happen before, during, or immediately after removal.
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Assign restoration and responsibility
Clarify where demolition ends and patching, infill, temporary work, or finish restoration begins.
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Set the pricing treatment
Give every confirmed or unresolved item a clear place in the estimate.
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Issue the final scope check
Turn the review into a checklist and a short request for written answers.
Make Your Play
Check Demolition Scope Before Pricing
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Start with the questions below. Each answer personalizes the playbook and builds the prompt you’ll use at the end.
Your situation
Describe the project type, location, occupancy, bid stage, schedule limits, and demolition areas.
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Paste or summarize the demolition work currently shown, specified, or requested.
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List the drawings, specifications, addenda, proposals, photos, and walkthrough notes available for review.
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Describe access, occupied areas, items to remain, utility concerns, structural concerns, and disposal limits.
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Select the current hazardous material testing status.
List known owner duties, trade responsibilities, exclusions, allowances, and concealed-condition terms.
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What you'll do
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01
Build the scope source list
Collect the current documents and identify which source controls when information conflicts.
02
Map removal limits
Break the demolition package into specific areas and assemblies instead of reviewing it as one broad line item.
03
Check demolition dependencies
Review the work that must happen before, during, or immediately after removal.
04
Assign restoration and responsibility
Clarify where demolition ends and patching, infill, temporary work, or finish restoration begins.
05
Set the pricing treatment
Give every confirmed or unresolved item a clear place in the estimate.
06
Issue the final scope check
Turn the review into a checklist and a short request for written answers.
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Assembled prompt
Beginner instructions
Gather the latest drawings, specifications, addenda, walkthrough notes, and subcontractor proposal before starting.
If a detail is unknown, write “not confirmed” instead of guessing. Treat safety, structural, utility, and hazardous material questions as hold points for qualified review.
Advanced instructions
Run the review against bid packages and trade proposals separately, then compare the results. Track every conflict back to its source and convert unresolved quantity risk into an allowance, unit price, alternate, or pricing hold.
Use this when
You are pricing renovation or demolition work and the drawings, specifications, walkthrough notes, or owner directions leave room for interpretation.
You'll need
- Project context
- Current demolition scope
- Source documents and notes
- Known site conditions
- Hazard testing status
- Responsibility terms
You'll get
- Every demolition area tied to a source or written assumption
- Removal limits and items to remain clearly separated
- Protection, salvage, disposal, utility, support, and patching responsibilities addressed
- Hazardous material and concealed-condition handling documented
- Every unresolved item assigned a pricing treatment
- Written clarification questions ready to send.
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- Every demolition area tied to a source or written assumption
- Removal limits and items to remain clearly separated
- Protection, salvage, disposal, utility, support, and patching responsibilities addressed
- Hazardous material and concealed-condition handling documented
- Every unresolved item assigned a pricing treatment
- Written clarification questions ready to send.
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