"MiamiCuse" wrote in message
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I need to install T1-11 boards as ceiling in a porch area. I have about
800 SF of porch space and I was quoted a price of $6500 to install it
(labor + material). The labor involves cutting the 4x8 sheets to the porch
dimension, in some areas I have overhead hi-hats so those need to be cut.
For the most part it is pretty straight and uncomplicated. It does NOT
include the cost of painting the boards. The materials will be the boards
themselves which sells for about $22.00 per sheet in local lumber yards,
staple guns and nails. Now this works out to be $8/SF. This is more
expensive than laying tiles!

I asked the guy and he said hanging stuff upside down (the porch is 7 feet
from the floor reachable by hand without being on a ladder) is very
difficult and that is why its so expensive.

Anyone knows what the on going rate should be?

Don't know about current going rates, but he is right, nailing upside down
is a bitch, esp if you don't do it every day. That is why almost all finish
carpenters use pneumatic nail guns these days. Two man job, unless he wants
to mess with prop sticks, which slows things down a bunch. (They never
trusted me to nail as a kid, but being tall, I got to hold up the other end
a lot.)

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