without spending all day using the search function, anybody got any sq.ft. prices for drywall, installation, tape with materials in the northeast?
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You may have a hard time with this. I'm in the NE (Boston area) and 99.5% of jobs done here are blueboard w/ skim coat plaster and not drywall/mud.
Dieselpig--Is that a Boston preference for aesthetics (nicer finish when painted) or is there some kind of cold weather advantage for blueboard with a skim coat?Just curious. Sorry for the hijack.Tua res agitur, paries cum proximus ardet ~ Horace
I don't think it has anything to do with cold weather at all. I think it's simply a regional difference... tradition if you will. We also stick frame most of our residential roofs as well. I've been framing residential homes, additions, condo's etc for only about 10 years here, but I've only worked with trusses twice. Maybe we just like to be different. :) Either that or we're just slow.
FWIW, I personally prefer the finish of skim coat to that of taped drywall... but that's just me.View Image
dieselpig
You were suppose to say we skim coat because it adds class to everything we do!
I can't plaster to save my life so blueboard is out on most of my jobs. If it is speced for a skim coat I sub it out. It can run between $1- 2 per sq ft. I find if I charge a total of $32 per 4x8 sheet for sheetrock, tape & mud, I do all right. The price works in my over all bid so I can't tell if that line item is out of wack. I'm not talking big jobs though maybe 30 sheets at most.All Things Wood!
Stephen Prunier Carpentry
most commercial jobs here are done with drywall, residential-blueboard.
I'm in CT, and my drywall guy charges $60 per sheet for 4x12's hung, taped, and sanded.
Justin Fink - FHB Editorial
Your Friendly Neighborhood Moderator
I'm assuming that the prices being quoted include the drywall itself, too. Is that correct?
MichaelNew knowledge is priceless.
Used knowledge is even more valuable.
That's correct. Also, that was for a job that included quite a few bulkheads, soffits, etc. (so lots of cutting and fitting).Justin Fink - FHB Editorial
Your Friendly Neighborhood Moderator
Yes, but that's the Connecticut dollar, roughly 1.25$ to the US dollar based on today's exchange rates....
In DC, with a solid and steady remodeling market, I pay usually 45-50$ a sheet, materials included.Expert since 10 am.
sounds like you've been here, and there was a sale that day
hahaha aha
yep, been there, seemed kinda pricy around Mystic and further south. i guess it keeps the "undesirables" in the hinterland.Expert since 10 am.
80 cents here in Michigan.
blue"...if you just do what you think is best testing those limits... it's pretty easy to find exactly where the line is...."
From the best of TauntonU.
Blue, you gotta add in for rock, mud, tape, trim, and screws. Add all that up and it's close to forty. Your eighty sounds like hang and tape only.
But then, if it's everything, your rockers might be part of that immigration problem we have been hearing about. Are they Samoans?
I think 80 cents includes everything.
blue"...if you just do what you think is best testing those limits... it's pretty easy to find exactly where the line is...."
From the best of TauntonU.
It's around $1.00 a board foot here for materials, hang and tape. Plaster and blue board is around $1.40 a bd ft.
Anybody have any experience with Dens Armour and veneer? Mold resistant substrate
xcarp
thanks, that was about what I thought. usually I do my own and the cost gets lost with the rest of the project. I'm getting too lazy for sheetrock
I'm halfway between DC and Richmond VA. Our sub charges us $42/4x12 board used. That's labor materials (including screws and misc. items). That works out to about $.88/SF of board delivered and installed. They get paid for the scraps, but that's usually not too bad.
I've heard of prices as low as $34 for a 4x12 sheet, but I think you're asking for major quality or work issues there.
BTW- all of our subs guys are white, albeit mostly rednecks.
Jon Blakemore
RappahannockINC.com Fredericksburg, VA
It is not clear to me whether the 88 cents includes rock, mud, tape, and trim (corners, ceiling plane transitions if done with stuff like FlexTrim, etc.)
Your remark about getting paid for scraps makes me think it is a hanging and finishing price only, with the rocker supplying his own screws and a little paper tape. The GC gets the boards, the mud, corners, trim, etc.
If that is the case, it is in line with what we see here in way far upstate NY.
But if it includes rock and mud and trim, it shows that we are paying a considerably higher labor rate for the work.
I price my cost for rock, mud, and trim, at about 35 cents per s.f., and in figuring for the rock quantity, we subtract nothing for window and door openings.
Edited 1/13/2007 12:49 pm ET by Gene_Davis
Gene,That figure includes everything to do with sheetrock. I call my sub when the rough inspection and insulation is done, he stocks the board (and pays for it), hangs it with him supplying glue and fasteners, and finished the sheetrock.A real life example- I am upstairs posting on BT while a finisher is sanding the final coat in my basement that we're finishing. The board count was 22 sheets, including about 6 sheets of green board GWB, and the bill for everything was $1,200. If the job were larger (over 60 sheets), it would have been "# of boards"*$42.
Jon Blakemore RappahannockINC.com Fredericksburg, VA
How big a crew and how long?
I just bid a small job and over 2.50 a sq. ft. for labor and material.I wonder if I was way to high.I figured 4 days for me and a helper to install 50 sheets mud and sand and mud and sand.
ANDYSZ2 WHY DO I HAVE TO EXPLAIN TO FRIENDS AND FAMILY THAT BEING A SOLE PROPRIETOR IS A REAL JOB?
REMODELER/PUNCHOUT SPECIALIST
2-3 hangers and 1-2 finishers. I really don't know how many man hours it takes them, I've never been around the whole job to see what it takes.These guys have been hanging or finishing GWB for 15 years, so they're quite proficient.
Jon Blakemore RappahannockINC.com Fredericksburg, VA
Every time this topic comes up it bums me out. It's around $2/sf here for a nice fully-skimmed job, more if you want it primed and textured. I've never read a post where someone pays more than that, and it's usually a lot less in other regions. $2.50 would probably be too high no matter where you are.