"dpb" wrote in message ...
JoeSpareBedroom wrote:
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I want to know how long the contractor said the work would take.


Fine, but I was answering the original question -- "why do people think
they're worth so much?" -- if the OP will calculate his time even reduced
by some factor for the contractor's experience, he'll discover that time
isn't worth nearly as much as he thought it was...

I can see you are ignorant of contracting. In a contract, you say, "I will
build your spare bedroom for $6,789." Notice the period. There's usually a
deadline for completion, but no hourly rate is quoted. A total price for a
specified job is a contract. Other than that, it qualifies as hourly
handyman rate. Any time either of the two parties is dissatisfied, they can
part. In a contract, things are entirely different.

But you knew that, right?

Steve