On Apr 3, 6:10*pm, aemeijers wrote:
Ed Pawlowski wrote:

"aemeijers" wrote
The estimate came back at 22k. Is there some plausible reason for such
a sky-high quote?

I grew up in the business, and I have the skills to do the work. What
I don't have is the time, unless I take a week or two off from my day
job. I also don't have anyone available to help hoist panels into
position until they can get pinned in place. Constructive suggestions
welcomed.

Have you priced the material? *Given that you say you'd have to take a
week or two off of work, I'm going to use two weeks as an estimate of
time. *Of course, a helper is needed. *So you have one person at $50 an
hour, the other at $30. *If it is an 80 hour job that would be $6400
plus material.

I wonder if you'd do better asking for a price just for labor if you
provide the material?

Somewhere in the 6-10 grand range is what I was expecting, and could
even live with, since I think fresh and crisp siding would make the
house easier to sell in a couple of years. *Last time I looked, 4x8 5/8
T1-11 was about $28 a sheet around here. That would have been last
October or so. I'm old, fat, and out of shape, is why I said two weeks,
assuming a young and strong, but inexpert, helper. I know that a good
2-3 man crew that could actually still work 8 hours in a row without
collapsing, could do it a lot quicker. (especially if they had proper
scaffolds and other staging, which I would have to rent or fabricate, to
do the gables.)

(Googles)
Local borg has .59 inch plain wood t1-11 for about $25 a panel. The
(presumably thinner) hardie-panels for about 3 bucks more per sheet. If
my memory is correct about 30 sheets (from when I walked around and
counted last year), that puts the material at $750-840, plus any needed
additional cedar trim (if the old stuff can't be reused), Z-flashing,
nails, and primer and paint. Be generous, and say 2k for material, to
allow for a layer of house wrap underneath. *Even plus $6400 for labor,
that still comes in WAY lower than they quoted me.

Guess I need to forget about the guys with yellow-pages ads, and start
calling the ones from the weekly ad paper that say they are 'licensed,
bonded, and insured'. If I could find a guy I could trust to actually
finish the job, I wouldn't even care if he did one face of the house at
a time, in between his other jobs that had hard deadlines.

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aem sends...

I didnt see any figures for tearing the old off and disposing of it.

Jimmie