My house is pretty old. I need to replace the sheathing, siding, and storm windows on the entire things.
The house is pretty old so the original window are wood and then I'm guessing 60s-70s based on the type - they put storm windows on the house. The storm windows are basically hanging off at this point and water has gotten around the "flashing" in spots.
The material around the windows are all wood. The sill, sides, etc. The entire rough opening was finished with 1 x pine. That's all in pretty good shape. The sills got the worst of it. But they were cut to slant so some aren't ruined.
I was pricing materials and between sheathing, tape, nails - I'm looking at like 3 grand absolute max and that's high. And that's with the fancy zip r sheathing. Regular sheathing is around a grand. Then storm window would be 2-3 grand depending on what I went with.
High end the project would cost me 7k high max if I took off work and did it myself. Realistically I can get everything for 5-6k.
I was looking at what people quote for my sized jobs and they quote like 17k in all kinds of areas. Why in the world is the industry quoting these jobs so high? Are they really marking up labor that much?
The house is pretty old so the original window are wood and then I'm guessing 60s-70s based on the type - they put storm windows on the house. The storm windows are basically hanging off at this point and water has gotten around the "flashing" in spots.
The material around the windows are all wood. The sill, sides, etc. The entire rough opening was finished with 1 x pine. That's all in pretty good shape. The sills got the worst of it. But they were cut to slant so some aren't ruined.
I was pricing materials and between sheathing, tape, nails - I'm looking at like 3 grand absolute max and that's high. And that's with the fancy zip r sheathing. Regular sheathing is around a grand. Then storm window would be 2-3 grand depending on what I went with.
High end the project would cost me 7k high max if I took off work and did it myself. Realistically I can get everything for 5-6k.
I was looking at what people quote for my sized jobs and they quote like 17k in all kinds of areas. Why in the world is the industry quoting these jobs so high? Are they really marking up labor that much?