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05-21-2003, 09:17 AM
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Engineer/Grammarian - Austin
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Austin, Texas
Posts: 376
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Wild Comments From An Austin Builder
Folks, had a conversation with a fellow who is a superintendent for a builder here in Austin last night.
Now this is the kind of builder who does these 12,000 ft2 homes....so I ask him where they get the craftsmen for this type of work: they come to the jobs and bring their reputations with them. If you are hapless, you cannot hide (for long) on a job like that, he says.
On costs for tile work: $32/ft2 labor for vertical surfaces! Plus materials. He told me their tile installer does the three-coat process exclusively; and all quality showers use fiberglass pans.
He described a $54,000 shower on a house he supervised: stainless steel and onyx construction.
He described 4,000 ft2 of oak and granite floor...removed from a German villa and transported to Austin for re-installation. Cost not available.
A $28,000 garage tear-out because the architect failed to note the proper width for the lady of the house to open her car doors. Missed the width by 3"!
Where DO people get their money? 
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Paul Despres, Austin
"Nothing to it, once you know how..."
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05-21-2003, 12:47 PM
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"da Leveler"
Join Date: Apr 2001
Posts: 18,280
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Dot coms that escaped before the crash, Enron survivors, golden parachutes, counterfeiting, drugs, arms sales to terrorists, embezzeling, exploting child labor, etc....all the tried and true methods. 
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05-21-2003, 04:44 PM
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Flooring Contractor
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Boston, MA
Posts: 1,035
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Don't forget about Pro athletes. I'm not too sure of Texas' geography but Alex Rodriguez of the Texas Rangers is working through a contract that will pay him $250,000,000. A twelve thousand square foot house would be like a studio apartment to him.
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05-21-2003, 05:19 PM
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Mudmeister
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Rosanky, Texas
Posts: 68,173
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I might be working a tad cheap. Not much, though.
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05-21-2003, 05:40 PM
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Stone Fabricator
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Port ST Lucie, Florida
Posts: 197
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I have several customers that fit into this category. Most of them have invented things and/or worked their a%*es off to get where they are. I am currently doing a house for the widow of the man that invented the bar code (what a "house").
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Brian Briggs, SFA
Granite Guys, Inc.
(772) 466-5051 Office
(772) 466-5065 Fax
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05-21-2003, 06:07 PM
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2001
Posts: 4,030
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>>and all quality showers use fiberglass pans.<<
Is that really true?
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05-21-2003, 07:31 PM
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Tile Setter
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Lanark Highlands
Posts: 1,102
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Ya, whats up with that? 
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GID'DAY!
I FEAR NO BEER! (except Grolsh....yuck)
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05-21-2003, 07:55 PM
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Remodeler, North-Central Missouri
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: North-Central Missouri
Posts: 543
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Wow, $54.000 for a shower, I'm hagglin right now with a couple on buying a new (to me) house & property, 3 bdrm 1-1/2 bath, full unfinished basement, sitting on 6 acres, 1/2 woods & 1/2 pasture, asking price $52,000. What's up with that?! fiberglass pans? 
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Jim Drewery
House Docs
Salisbury, MO.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Mark Twain
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05-21-2003, 08:12 PM
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Tile Setter
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Lanark Highlands
Posts: 1,102
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Actually I just got a 2750sf two storey with , 3 bath, 5 bedroom, garage is 30'x 25' , a dog house and a half fallen over iceshack for $58,500 (canadian).....not bad.. not bad.........
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GID'DAY!
I FEAR NO BEER! (except Grolsh....yuck)
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05-22-2003, 07:28 AM
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Official Hostess and Moderator at Large
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Michigan
Posts: 2,943
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05-22-2003, 07:39 AM
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"da Leveler"
Join Date: Apr 2001
Posts: 18,280
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about $56,500
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05-22-2003, 10:38 AM
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Official Hostess and Moderator at Large
Join Date: Sep 2001
Location: Michigan
Posts: 2,943
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05-22-2003, 02:02 PM
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Tile Setter
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Lanark Highlands
Posts: 1,102
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So it's you Jim thats been taking those pictures of me.........geeesh.....can't even crap in privacy...... 
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GID'DAY!
I FEAR NO BEER! (except Grolsh....yuck)
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05-22-2003, 02:45 PM
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Engineer/Grammarian - Austin
Join Date: Jan 2002
Location: Austin, Texas
Posts: 376
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Oh yeah. There are folks with money, I know. All kinds of folks holed up in Austin, driving up the rent
Drew, $60,00 for a whole house?! Well north central MO. Location, location, location.
Yeah, fiberglass pans. Jason Butler is a local and may know more about that, but this fellow (he's a job site superintendent) said that is the standard for this area. He came to Austin from Calif, where they were getting away from hot-mopped pans.
And Randy, I couldn't even find a second STOREY in this town.
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05-22-2003, 04:02 PM
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Mudmeister
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Rosanky, Texas
Posts: 68,173
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Oh oh, alert. I think Paul is reverting to his grammarian mode. Where's my Strunk and White?
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