help w/ estimating home improvement costs?
al
*approximate* cost or range of materials and labor costs for the
following things:
1. having exterior french doors installed where a large window now
exists in the exterior wall of a brick house?
2. having a finished dry-wall wall built to divide a currently-joined
living room/dining room, with interior french doors in the new wall
between the two new rooms?
3. a total re-do of a 19x13 kitchen, including high quality cabinets,
counters and appliances and a new floor surface? I know this can
range greatly depending on what type of design and materials are
chosen, but how about an estimated range?
4. Finishing a huge 45x15 basement? Would like to dry wall the
walls, dry wall the ceiling w/ recessed lighting, carpet the floor w/
wall to wall carpeting.
5. Cost to have a deck built? Obviously, this varies based on size
and design, but what is the typical range?
6. Cost to re-do a typical full bathroom (new tile, new countertop,
new lighting, new tub/toilet, new mirror, etc.)?
7. Cost to remove an old "intercom" system from a house? You have
seen the type in houses built in the 70s. Almost every room (say 8
rooms) has an approximately 1'x1' unit in the dry wall. How much
would it cost to have all 8 units removed, have a dry wall patch put
in and prepped for painting?
Thanks for any guestimates anyone can provide. We are looking at a
house that needs A LOT of work (not to be done all at once) and trying
to get a handle on what the eventual total costs may be.
Vox Humana
"al" <atama...@kl.com> wrote in message
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It would probably be cheaper to move!
Tracey
> *approximate* cost or range of materials and labor costs for the
> following things:
#1 rule: plan for it to cost WAY more than you estimate and take a lot
longer as well.
>
> 4. Finishing a huge 45x15 basement? Would like to dry wall the
> walls, dry wall the ceiling w/ recessed lighting, carpet the floor w/
> wall to wall carpeting.
We are just finishing our basement family room remodel, so I can give you
some information about how much ours cost and what we did. We started in
early March and it will be totally finished by the end of this week. It
cost about $18K. The basement room is 22'X28'. There was a fieldstone
slate floor, which was ugly, cold and uneven...we had it framed to be level,
insulated and put osb down, tiled 1/2 with vinyl tile, the other half will
be carpet in a couple months. We removed panelling, which was glued to the
cement block and we removed the bricks that covered the bottom 3 feet of the
walls (with a jackhammer) and put in framed walls and sheetrock.
A casement window was removed and replaced with a Vinyl Replacement window
(double hung, low E, argon filled), a 50X60" picture window was replaced
with a vinyl replacement bay window. A 12" sliding door that barely worked
was replaced with a double window 72" wide plus a regular exterior wood
door, and the extra was framed as an exterior wall. We ripped out a
naughide wet bar and replaced it with oak cabinets and a peninsula and
formica countertop (22' long), and a new double sink. We replaced 4 ugly
light fixtures with 3 flourescent fixtures and full spectrum lightbulbs and
the 4th with track lighting above the already existing brick fireplace. We
replaced the ugly Luan doors to the unfished part of the basement and the
bathroom with 6 panel doors. We ripped out the four existing electrical
outlets and replaced them with 12 electrical outlets. Added a couple of
cable jacks, several phone jacks for both phone lines and several jacks for
our computer network/dsl connection. We painted the room, put in baseboard
trim, etc.
al
nice. One question... was the $18k to have a contractor do all the
work or did you do some of it yourself? Thanks.
Tracey
> nice. One question... was the $18k to have a contractor do all the
> work or did you do some of it yourself? Thanks.
We did some, the contractor did most of it. We did some of the sanding, we
pulled the cable/dsl/phone wires thru the studs and wired those ourselves.
We did the painting.