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Thread: Home Remodel: Do, Don'ts, Advice
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10-20-2021, 05:28 PM #5576one of those sickos
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I'm sure the Taco is up to the task. Maybe borrow a Ridgeline or Baja from a friend for superior towing capacity.
Maybe you can get a bunch of M80 firecrackers and blast the new opening. There are also carbide chains for chainsaws so you can get your Texas Chainsaw Massacre on.
I also like the flowing concrete down sculpted dirt steps idea.
$40k is prob high but def not insane for doing it right.
$3500 to frame a 20x8 deck is also not insane. That's 3 days of work for a carp and helper (assuming it's a real contractor with WC etc). What do you think it should cost?ride bikes, climb, ski, travel, cook, work to fund former, repeat.
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10-20-2021, 05:42 PM #5577
I’ll do it for $39k
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10-20-2021, 05:56 PM #5578Registered User
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10-20-2021, 07:58 PM #5579
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10-21-2021, 06:20 AM #5580
Yup
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10-21-2021, 06:26 AM #5581Registered User
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10-21-2021, 08:00 AM #5582
Regional markets vary widely so that has a lot to do with it but I think the $40K and the $3500 sound fair to me. Around here just figure $75/hr. for skilled labor, cost +20% on the materials, and then 20% on top of that for whomever is gonna manage the job. Now if you are gonna want a fixed price agreement, the contractor is gonna tack on some about above actual estimated cost to a. be compensated for the risk of uncertainly and b. because they can.
With my relationship based long term customers, I am always fair. With Johny come lately homeowner, I could give two shits and tell that to them from the jump. "I'm trying to be expensive, you can probably find somebody to do the job for less. I have a choice about what jobs I take and if I don't do this one, I'll try to do something else."
Said a different way, we are looking for price insensitive customers. I do plenty of jobs where everyone ends up happy, the check comes quickly and it is very profitable.
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10-21-2021, 08:07 AM #5583Registered User
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I can't tell you it's top secrete trade secrets
I had an hour long weekly phone meeting with a customer yesterday they asked when I was going to invoice them next I said soon I'm busy posting on tgr instead of doing invoices he told me that it may take a couple days to wire me the money this time last time I was paid in two hours of submitting the invoice told him not to worry if it takes a week for me to get paid I will be aok guy was shocked my kind of customers I did say the sooner the better is always better cause I was out of weed and I wrote my prep school a big check so they would put my name on a plaque in the theatre lobby
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10-21-2021, 08:27 AM #5584
I built a 16x14 deck myself and just the materials cost me $3k...14 years ago.
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10-21-2021, 08:35 AM #5585______
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10-21-2021, 09:08 AM #5586Registered User
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10-21-2021, 09:31 AM #5587
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10-21-2021, 09:36 AM #5588
$75*1.2= $90/hr
$3500/32= $110/hr
Within regional variation.
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10-21-2021, 10:03 AM #5589
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10-21-2021, 10:08 AM #5590
Couldn’t say but given the lack of duct work or flex tube it doesn’t look like active cold air return to me. But I’m not a hvac guy either.
Besides I got the impression from your initial post you were all about deleting the vent.
Where exactly is the hole ? Basement? Between first and second floor? Attic? Only place I have ever seen a vent through an exterior wall with no tin or flex tube attached is in uninhabited attic space.
Maybe it used to feed your hvac system and a new system was installed and this thing and the old cover was just a loose end.Damn, we're in a tight spot!
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10-21-2021, 10:25 AM #5591
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10-21-2021, 10:40 AM #5592Registered User
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It’s connected to ducting, the picture is just shitty. I assume it is an air return and they most likely put it there for a reason. Probably added when they added a second a/c unit. The stucco guy said he can clean up the edges a bit, but I’m just going to put a new vent on it and call it good.
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10-21-2021, 11:52 AM #5593
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10-21-2021, 06:44 PM #5594
Framed it myself with the framer who did my addition in one Saturday. Started at 8am and was done at 5pm. That includes posts, cap/base, beams, joists, blocking, hangers, decking with hidden fasteners and fascia. It could not have been more simple.
18 hours of labor is $195/hr. I was going to pay him cash and he lived 2 miles from my house. He was doing it in the side, so he wasn’t paying taxes. I wish he would have just told me he didn’t want the job.
I’m happy to pay a fair wage, but (2) 4x10, (15) 2x10, and some decking is not a $195/hr job. Paid the framer $600 for the day and fed him lunch and dinner.
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10-21-2021, 08:50 PM #5595www.apriliaforum.com
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10-22-2021, 06:23 AM #5596
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10-22-2021, 04:54 PM #5597
Hvac question.
Currently have two old hvac systems. 3 and 5 ton I think. Gas furnaces. Seer of 12.
Looking to replace them with a high efficiency system that will last a long time, we plan to be in house for a long time. It’s 3,500 sq ft and high ceilings.
Go to heat pump or stick with gas? I’m leaning towards heat pump despite the cost increase.
Stay with two systems right? Looks like that is generally better than one large unit?
What are the best makes / units? I’d rather pay more up front to save in power and maintenance. (Ac outages suck). Seems like most hvac guys only install certain brands.
Also, If anyone has done the California/ PGE/ federal rebate game recently your input would be awesome.
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10-23-2021, 07:13 AM #5598
There’s literally no way to properly advise you without knowing:
Climate
How well insulated your home is
Amount and quality of glass
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10-24-2021, 12:27 PM #5599I drink it up
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10-24-2021, 12:47 PM #5600Registered User
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Already bowed out of bidding on this one, but just curious. This listing has an unpermitted ADU with a 3/4 bathroom that the city doesn't seem to know about (property records say this property has 1 bathroom, not 2). How do you get a toilet plumbed to the sewer without the city knowing about it?
https://www.redfin.com/WA/Bellingham.../home/15815230
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