You just like the romance of doing everything yourself. History has given us the division of labor to make things more efficient. But then I suppose passion supersedes efficiency.
I find that hard to believe. Perhaps you did not look very hard. Usually the cost of labor and materials runs 50-50. It sounds like the person giving the estimate did not want to mess with the job.
I just had my 6K sq ft house painted outside and some rotten trim replaced for a total of $2300 including the paint. It took them two people two weeks.
Shakespeare may have written Sonnet 69 just for you.
Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend; All tongues, the voice of souls, give thee that due, Uttering bare truth, even so as foes commend. Thy outward thus with outward praise is crown'd; But those same tongues that give thee so thine own In other accents do this praise confound By seeing farther than the eye hath shown. They look into the beauty of thy mind, And that, in guess, they measure by thy deeds; Then, churls, their thoughts, although their eyes were kind, To thy fair flower add the rank smell of weeds: But why thy odour matcheth not thy show, The solve is this, that thou dost common grow.
@anon, yesa, that sounds like a good price for that. To clarify, the $10K was for steel, and there are a lot of angles to cut. So I went to roll roofing throughout for the flexibility, and that I know how to do. More or less. And, yes, it's true about passion ...
... Day Six up on th' roof.
You just like the romance of doing everything yourself. History has given us the division of labor to make things more efficient. But then I suppose passion supersedes efficiency.
ReplyDeleteGot me, fair & square!
ReplyDeleteBut also I was quoted $10K for the job, and doing it myself saves me $8K plus debt, money I didn't have.
I find that hard to believe. Perhaps you did not look very hard. Usually the cost of labor and materials runs 50-50. It sounds like the person giving the estimate did not want to mess with the job.
ReplyDeleteI just had my 6K sq ft house painted outside and some rotten trim replaced for a total of $2300 including the paint. It took them two people two weeks.
Shakespeare may have written Sonnet 69 just for you.
ReplyDeleteThose parts of thee that the world's eye doth view
Want nothing that the thought of hearts can mend;
All tongues, the voice of souls, give thee that due,
Uttering bare truth, even so as foes commend.
Thy outward thus with outward praise is crown'd;
But those same tongues that give thee so thine own
In other accents do this praise confound
By seeing farther than the eye hath shown.
They look into the beauty of thy mind,
And that, in guess, they measure by thy deeds;
Then, churls, their thoughts, although their eyes were kind,
To thy fair flower add the rank smell of weeds:
But why thy odour matcheth not thy show,
The solve is this, that thou dost common grow.
@anon, yesa, that sounds like a good price for that. To clarify, the $10K was for steel, and there are a lot of angles to cut. So I went to roll roofing throughout for the flexibility, and that I know how to do. More or less. And, yes, it's true about passion ...
ReplyDelete@hermit, hiya!
>that thou dost common grow.
Jist gettin' back to my roots!