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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index

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To: Don Earl who wrote (59162)	8/6/2006 4:54:57 AM
From: Ditchdigger	Read Replies (1) of 306849

Here in the green mountain state, concrete has now risen to $104 cu yd.. Cost of rebar has not risen quite as much..(most residential foundations don't even use rebar, and if they do, it is basically tossed into the forms and layed on the ties)..A proper rebar job(J bar dowels/tied in place wall mats-not to mention footing keyway)is labor intensive and will drive the cost of a foundation higher... As for the $100/ sq ft figure, you get what you pay for, and not much at that figure..As you said, post and beam is high end (very popular up here), but in reality, much less labor intensive as a shell. P & B, plus stretch skin panels will get you an insulated shell up fast.. Jeez, I pay $23.50 cu yd for 1 1/2" crushed stone delivered, fricken rocks!!...;^) Hard to build a decent shed these days @ $100/ sq ft. The site work alone will take a good bite out of that number.. DD

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