Basement wall, floor & ceiling pricing per SF?
ravlegend
18 years ago
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Comments (11)Thank you very much for your answers and comments and thank you for posting the link. With your questions, i now noticed how much info i left out. The walls are poured, 10" thick, 9' tall, and much rebar. This, Im told, is one of the secrets to building a basement here. The quote does not include any exterior flatwork. The lot is a bit on the flat side, with regards to a walk-out basement so there is not a ton of excavation. The main floor will be approximately 3' above grade in the front. There is no fill included in the quote. The back and one side have been planned to be stick built so there would be no windows in the concrete itself. I did fail to mention the contractor mensioned a safe room area under the front porch that a door could be added to when finished. The house will be located in the country in Oklahoma and not with-in any city limits. Im originally from Wisconsin, where basements are the norm. Here in Okla. they are fairly rare. Unfortunately, there is only one contractor here that does basements only. From people i have talked with, and from what ive seen with my own eyes, they do a nice job, but they have no compitition, which is why i questioned the price. Thanks again!...See Moreprice/appeal of a semi-finished basement
Comments (17)We are finishing our basement for our own use right now -- but before this -- I've always said that buyers would love our home - until they saw the basement. We have put thousands of dollars into our home: new windows, new cherry floors, new kitchen (addition), all new bathrooms, etc... But, when you walk downstairs to the basement you are greeted by nasty walls with seepage stains and dusty concrete floors. We had the walls taken care of (rod holes and cracks) but they are still ugly. Eventually, they will be insulated and dry-walled. My DH insists on a powder room even though it was not plumbed for one -- it was $1,700 for the sink and toilet rough in. I don't expect to ever recoup the investment on our finished basement when it is done -- but we could never sell it the way it is. At a minimum -- I would paint the floor and walls so it looks nice -- that is after making sure walls don't leak or seep. Another interesting option is spray painting the ceiling black -- our friends did this to their quasi-finished basement and I think it looks great....See MoreIf you already owned your land, would you mind sharing price per sq ft
Comments (28)Virgil said: "More to the point, cost vary due to complexity, quality and frankly, lack of thought resulting in change orders during construction." Exactly. Are you building a basic house with clamshell molding or no molding around the windows, inexpensive carpeting throughout, minimal tile, laminate counters, etc or are you building a top of the line house with 10" crown moldings, 8" baseboard molding, calcutta marble tile in the bathrooms, Sub zero quality appliances, hand scraped hardwood floors throughout, and fireplaces in every room? Are you building in a HCOLA area or in you in a rural area where land and labor are inexpensive? A great example is my house which is custom. If I go with his basic features, which are still very nice, my cost per square foot will be $217 a square foot. Not cheap but it does include granite, tile, wood floors, a pool with hot tub, security system, a Bosch appliance package, tankless water system, semi custom cabinets, Kohler quality fixtures and many other options. However if I add every single option at the maximum price, meaning I decide I can't live without the $50 a square foot tile, or need more expensive wood flooring, the elevator, a full outdoor kitchen, upgraded moldings, a fancier staircase, etc, etc, the price could jump to as high as $279 a square foot. I can go outside my target area to an area that is 5-10 miles from where we're building and can build a house for 1/2 the price per square foot. Same zip code even. So as Virgil is saying, it really means nothing what the square foot price to build is....See MoreBasement ceiling tiles / drop ceiling
Comments (10)When I was making that choice a drop ceiling was going to be about twice the price of blueboard and plaster (we don't do drywall in residential construction around here), The drop ceiling was also going to give us much less flexibility for dropping chases to a lower height for HVAC, would have cost most of a foot of dearly won ceiling height across much of the basement. I couldn't justify the expense for the once-in-a-blue-moon need to access something above the ceiling. We put access panels everywhere there was anything that required, or might reasonably expect to need access. Ten years later there has been no need to cut a hole for anything-- nor have I needed to use any of those access panels except for the one with the refrigerator water shutoff valve. ....See Moreravlegend
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