FYI -

What your source book apparently failed to mention is that USENET is
basically a free-for-all. You can get everything from complete *hit to
golden nuggets on USENET. The hard part is finding the gold.

This particular forum (alt.building.construction) has plenty of *hit and a
few sources of gold, as do most of the "alt" forums. You have to have spent
some time here to figure out who is providing which.

Tip one: get a new mail address. Starting a new business using Sun Life's
email is a bad start, unless this is part of your termination agreement with
Sun Life.

Tip two: use some common sense BEFORE asking a question here. Ergo: in North
America, construction is a very regional industry. You have given no idea
where the market is which you are asking about. For that matter, you have
not even indicated which COUNTRY. Yes, believe it or not there are people
here from more than just one country/region.

Tip three: you have answered your OWN question so what you are asking is not
what you really want to know.

You have apparently got material costs and know that laminate installed is
25% of granite installed. You can therefore conclude (substitute whatever
your regional market pricing happens to be) that if you want to be in the
middle: granite at $4 per square foot installed; laminate at $1 per square
foot installed; your product should be priced at or around $2.50 per square
foot installed.

Installed price is, of course, made up of materials and labour. Regional
differences aside (and these can be significant), laminate is an inexpensive
material with does not require highly skilled labour to get to the
"installed" stage. Granite, Solid Surface and engineered quartz are all more
expensive materials and require various degrees of skilled labour to get to
the "installed" stage. Within the granite market itself there can be HUGE
variation in the final "installed" price based on the quality of the
material, the complexity of the installation, the distance from quarry to
site etc etc etc.

Final tip: know YOUR product, know YOUR market, set your price. Unless you
are willing or able to provide details of your product and market you will
get no useful information here or anywhere else.

Good luck,


DBT


"mcburja" wrote in message
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I appreciate all of your responses. Here's the thing. In my region,
the ratio of material price to installed price varies greatly by
product. At the installed level, solid surface and granite are roughly
equivalent, with engineered quartz coming in at roughly 20% above that.
Laminate comes in at about 25% of the price of SS and granite. So
while it's relatively easy to check the retail price of materials, the
installed price is much harder to get at. In my market, the price
point I'm heading for would be right between plam and granite.

Call me naive, but I was hoping to get a very high level idea of how
these kinds of comparisons look elsewhere, just to judge the
variability. I've never used Usenet before, but a book on new product
development suggested this forum as a good place to get some very
preliminary feedback.

This is certainly not the only avenue I'm persuing, but I felt it
couldn't hurt to ask. Perhaps I was mistaken.