hi everyone i know this will be missing alot however what would you guys say a 24x 24 garage on an alakan slab would run no finishes at all not even electric
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What's a alakan slab? Never heard the term.
dug
A mis-spelled Alaskan Slab:
http://www.oikos.com/esb/43/foundations.html
Well if you ask Sarah Palin what an "Alaskan Slab" is she would tell you it's an order of moose ribs to go for the hockey arena !!
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!
"It is what it is."
$148,863.95, do I get the job?
I would hazard a guess at $3500 for the slab and $7500 for framing, roof, doors and siding.
"It is what it is."
i did a floor for a 24x24 and you nailed it for footings and slab 3500,i think the 75 is pretty close for 2x4,4/12 roof with 20 yr shingles also. larryif a man speaks in the forest,and there's not a woman to hear him,is he still wrong?
Just finished pouring a 30X24 Alaskan slab on grade that came out to $5000 for 19.5 yards of concrete, 2" blueboard, rebar and remesh and vb. $2000 for labor.
Working on the framing package right now. I'll know tomorrow what that will be.
Oh yeah, forgot about the excavation and backfill of 4' underneath the slab. I'd say another $3000 maybe.
Hope this helps.
So you think my bid was a little high?
Is there any flexibility on that pricing? ;-)
LOL. I think it is safe to go somewhere between yours and mine.
"It is what it is."
good guess, but you forgot to include the labour cost!;)
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Yes sir. I still find it amusing that people want a bid or prices in this way. As you know, there are so many factors that come into play with any job, the PITA tax for example. What if the garage is to be built on the side of a cliff? The slab might cost $100,000! I guess I was just taking a shot at the cheapest he could expect to pay, instead of scolding or asking an endless stream of questions........
"It is what it is."
a shot at the cheapest he could expect to pay
Now that is something this old DIY can respond to, as just built a 16 by 24 garage last year with 10 ft x 10 ft rollup door. Cost, not including labor or use of won equipments, was about $17. Most of that was nails, welding rod,fuel for the backhoe and saw, and electricity to run saws, etc. 100% surplus materials or own trees.
Add 50% for 24x24 and OP may be able to do it for under $30?
BTW, my 'Alaska slab' is welded together 2ft by 2 ft computer floor steel plates floated into natural mud. Guess if you added in the $200/ton scrap value of the floor the cost would be in the $200 cost range, but got the floor plates free.
Door cost?? Neighbor had new garage doors put on, gave me his old ones vs paying $80 to have them haluled off (added extra panel to 8 ft high door to get a 10 foot, so maybe could deduct $80 as neighborly good will - which makes the garage free for materials?
Mike: Neighbor with the doors is also a Chicago native about your size, he saw me placing wet 16 ft long 8" dia peeled fir poles for the roof with the backhoe, came over and put one in place BY HAND (one end at a time).
Yeah, I am guilty of doing stuff like setting the poles by hand as well. I think it is due to impatience.
Sometimes I carry 2-3 patio door slabs at a time. I hate trips. Besides, if I take too many trips, I may loose my great figure! LOL!
"It is what it is."
I used to do stuff like that! Wish I still could!
This is like asking what does a car cost. We need details.
Your gonna need to cost it out yourself.
If you are just looking for some wild guesses you can get that here. The problem is that labor especially, and materials (not as much so) vary widely in price in different locations around the country. For example, one framer living in the NE who hangs out here talks of charging $12 a sq ft for labor. I pay as little as $3 a sq ft and sometimes even $2 for unheated areas. Big difference huh? And you can't really go off sq ft #s either as subs often charge extra for small jobs.
If you can tell us roughly where you live, if someone here lives near you they might be able to throw out some #s that were a little more meaningful. You need to supply some more info like siding and roofing type, # of doors and windows, method of roof frame construction, permit costs, etc.
Also the site work you are gonna have to figure out yourself. That could be anywhere between $0 and $8000.
Sorry, no easy button here.
Edited 9/14/2008 8:29 am ET by Matt
Matt, I totally agree with you!As a pro, I spend a lot of time refining my pricing and hunting down the costs of materials for estimating purposes. I make phone calls, check websites and catalogs, and personally visit the lumberyard with pen and paper. I get off my arse and do my own leg work; why can't they too?I hesitate to answer any "how much for" questions because I am always afraid that means I'm screwing my brethren carpenters by giving a clue to the clueless homeowner. All to many times I have had a client come to me and ask why some random line item task costs so much. Why so much?!?!?! Why not so much?!?!? Who's the hired professional with the experience to know that some operations are more tedious or more prone to snags than others? Who did the legwork to get material prices?These HO's are the same ones who get my rough estimates and tell me it's wrong or too high. They are not informed clients, they just know enough to be annoying or dangerous. They could get a price from us on the net and try to use it against us; like they are comparing the price of books at Amazon to the local bookstore.I think we all should just ignore price requests like that.gk
That is why you bid high, very high! At least on the internet.>G<
When I had customers ask me when I pulled up to an estimate how much, I like to tell them less than a million!
woody
I liked Junkhounds answer.. depending on where you are you could do the same or similar as junkhound. If you really wanted to over build it you could make a lot of improvements.. but you'd have to think outside the box..
visitinga lumberyard etc. is the lazy mans way.. you pay a lot to be lazy.. but it sure is easier..
Another strategy....
I bought a 12 x 30 "cabin" (is actually an Amish built shed) at a campground auction this past weekend for $200. Price to move it about 5 miles is $350. Don't know the price of the stone yet for the pad, probably $150. So the total is close to $700.
Could have had 6 or 7 if I wanted them (some of the rougher ones for as little as $50), but I'm not ready to move into the double digit shed league yet!! ;)