Any idea what is the going cost per square foot in DFW?
TxMarti
10 years ago
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Comments (19)THere is no possible place to build east of me. There is one house there now and then the river.....THere is no possibilty of ruining the view. The river corridor right here has been zoned as a park and it is not possible to build right here. I talked to the zoning people and he said I could build and that the only thing that would interfere would be a neighbor complaint. Yes, you lived real close to where I am now. I dont know how long ago you lived here but it's condoville now everywhere!!!! This whole area has changed. I am aware that I need a variance. Like I said the neighors right next to me built a garage with an apartment too. Now im looking at my house and thinking about a remodel but at the same time it seems to me that would be a costly event too! Im thinking it would be cheaper for me to build and have some one help pay the mortgage....See MoreData on marginal cost per square foot
Comments (22)The cost per carat of a diamond is easily established and in fact very public, and more importantly uses a factor just like I am talking about, you use a chart to select your stone's quality and then you multiply by the carats. It is called the Rapaport diamond report, it is updated weekly and available to anyone who purchases a subscription. You can always lay your hands on one. I am aware that I think differently than most people, and really, I wish I had never brought this up. But people keep bringing things in as variables that are simply not variables. Again, the pattern of the hardwood will probably not change if your bedroom gets a foot bigger, most people would continue a herringbone pattern, they would only put a contrasting boarder if the rest of the room had one. Is shoe moulding included in the rest of the room or not? Carpet waste is a legitimate variable, but given a sample size of even 50 homes, carpet waste will get normal. If you set the price of the rest of the square footage as the constant you don't need a number. By setting the overall cost per square foot to 1 (it doesn't matter the actual dollar amount) and testing for the relationship between marginal cost and nominal cost we get a number either less than or greater than one (a factor) that you can multiply overall cost by to get a marginal cost. With this method you don't need to really have two per square foot prices that are equal or even close. I was working with a statistician today (on something else), and he also thought that someone has to have done this, it has a simple dependent variable and only a few independent variables. We found one study that quoted a factor of 0.58 with a standard deviation of 0.085. Which means that 68.2% of the time the marginal cost per square foot is between 49.5% and 66.5%, while 95% of the time the cost will be between 41% and 75%. I don't know where or when these came from so I don't think I would use them yet. I think I wil put in a call to the college of architecture at some point this week....See MoreCost per square foot to jackhammer Travertine in 12 x 16 ft kitchen?
Comments (3)Thanks for the input. We built our home which is poured concrete floors and walls and totally understand the "on your knees " jobs. We have travertine in the entire interior of our house about 1500 square feet and over 2400 sq. feet of patios and courtyard outside. Other than a few areas which have pitted and were easily filled with Traverfill it looks great. The kitchen was a poor choice for travertine even with repeated sealing. The kitchen has french doors on opposite walls and gets major walk thru traffic. I cook and bake and serve to our outdoor dining room so there are regular spills and stains. I thought of putting a floating floor on top of the tile and just raise the threshold on both french doors. The threshold is already raised to prevent water from a tropical storm from entering the house. But the doorway to the inside living room would create a tripping hazard. The tool you used sounds like a hammer drill with a special blade. We have to use a hammer drill to even put a tapcon in the wall to hang a picture. I can barely lift it. Living on St. John has it's challenges and I will have to find a porcelain tile with a travertine look, Have it shipped in and then have the tile removed. It sounds like it could be done in a week if I have all the materials ready to go, including the laborers. We will have to put 4 x 8 sheets of plywood against the cabinets to prevent damage from the drill and tile removal. Sounds like I should have the tile jacked while my husband is away. I appreciate the advice. It just confirms what I imagined would be required to have a new floor. I attached a picture before we finished the house as the tile was completed....See Morecost per square foot for an addition in Miami
Comments (18)I think there can be a sweet spot in the extremes between panicking and blindly trusting a contractor to give the best quality and price and exhaustively interviewing contractors for best prices. Generally, and very respectfully speaking, contractors with beautiful websites and glowing Google reviews have staff or services to keep the marketing machine going, so naturally they get more referrals, they participate in projects and work with other professionals who also feed the referral pipeline which enables them to be more selective. Congrats to those people. I think one path to the sweet spot can be found by asking friends and relatives and professionals and even strangers sometimes for contractor referrals while the concept plans are being developed. Once they're developed, email the plans, discuss the scope and budget briefly on the phone so you can each pre-screen each other. If a referral is too busy or the scope isn't a good fit, ask that person for a referral. It's definitely more work but there are skilled contractors who know their market and rely on word of mouth. An enterprising neighbor we didn't know left a note on our door (written on a napkin!) asking for our contractor's name and a recommendation and as a result, our contractor got that job too....See Morelavender_lass
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