To make this remodeling adventure that much more scary, for Halloween, Jacquela and Steven today approved change order 16 — the addition of a third garage bay to Emerald Hill.
Plans here. Already approved by city.
We have been working with Ranserve to refine the project and rein in costs.
Here’s what we approved:
| Builder’s risk insurance | $85 | |
| Site supervision / general labor | $3250 | No overhead and profit charged to this item |
| Inspections | $300 | |
| Demo / Prep | $1500 | Includes dumpsters |
| Brick masonry | $500 | Repairs at tie-in |
| Framing labor / materials | $9720 | No interior wall |
| New roof and roof repairs | $4298 | |
| Window | $500 | Allowance |
| Garage door | $1500 | Allowance |
| Hardware | $0 | Allowance |
| Drywall and texture | $0 | Allowance, but eliminated from project |
| Flooring — concrete epoxy | $0 | Excluded |
| Exterior painting only, no interior painting | $1770 | |
| Electrical | $2475 | Includes exterior hook up to power pole |
| Lighting fixtures | $500 | Allowance |
| Foundation | $11400 | |
| subtotal | $37798 | |
| Overhead & profit | $6910 | |
| Total | $44708 |
You can order shed and garage kits online for about the same cost, plus construction labor and permits; or prefabricated metal buildings for a lot less money yet would also require more labor to tie together the two structures — and still need permits.
This gets the job done, adds tons of storage to the house, adds protected parking, adds workshop space for the power tools — and ties all the structures together, correctly.
Ranserve reports we will break ground the week of 2 November.