How much time should it take for a professional contractor to replace
the wooden fixtures in a church with four columns of pews twenty rows
deep (the pews are 12 feet wide), and the typical forward arrangement of
an alter, podium, and one foot high elevated stage? The replacement
furniture isn't fancy but it has a custom engraving of a cross on each
side cap. I was told that this engraving, although simple, could take
up to four weeks to complete.
Well Edwin, you beat me to it.
As a contractor, I hate that kind of question.
I get telephone calls like this: "Can you tell me about how much a bay
window would cost on my house?"
"What does a new bathroom cost?"
"If I re-did my kitchen (what is a "re-did" anyway?), would it cost?
You know, just ball park numbers since it needs to be brought up to
code as well."
Without all the simpering and whining about how one needs to educate
their clients as part of "the process", these people ususally are so
far behind he power curve of understanding what they want done their
projects rarely come to fruition.
"hey... my truck is making a noise on occasion when I hit the gas. I
drive a 2002 Ford and was wondering how much it would cost to fix it"
Jeez...
Robert
Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
> "Truly Newly" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
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>>How much time should it take for a professional contractor to replace the
>>wooden fixtures in a church with four columns of pews twenty rows deep
>>(the pews are 12 feet wide), and the typical forward arrangement of an
>>alter, podium, and one foot high elevated stage? The replacement
>>furniture isn't fancy but it has a custom engraving of a cross on each
>>side cap. I was told that this engraving, although simple, could take up
>>to four weeks to complete.
>
>
>
> How big is a box? How high is a cloud?
>
> Such a simple sounding question but how little information to base an
> answer. You'd need to know what is pre-made, what is done on site. How are
> the present fixtures installed and secured and how will the new one be
> installed. How many people in the crew? Hand engraved or machine routed?
> Simple design with 10 big changes? Finishing after? It could take a
> couple of days or a couple of years.
>
>
That was perfect. I to am a contractor in California and when
someone asks a question like that I tell them if your not willing to
give me an address to see the project then I can't help you.
There's plenty of other things I would love to say but that would be
just to rude.
Wow, didn't realize this was so crossposted. Here comes the spam!
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I figure that is about 160 end caps, for an average of 8 endcaps a day on
average. Considering that he has to take them off the pew, carve them,
clean them up after carving and then finishing them and replace them on the
pew, the guy must be working pretty fast to get it done in 4 weeks. Even if
he orders them from a factory that seems like a fair estimate to me. If he
is including installation it seems like a real fast job. If you trusted him
enough to hire him then let him do the job and don't try to micro manage or
second guess him.
"Truly Newly" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> How much time should it take for a professional contractor to replace
> the wooden fixtures in a church with four columns of pews twenty rows
> deep (the pews are 12 feet wide), and the typical forward arrangement of
> an alter, podium, and one foot high elevated stage? The replacement
> furniture isn't fancy but it has a custom engraving of a cross on each
> side cap. I was told that this engraving, although simple, could take
> up to four weeks to complete.
"Truly Newly" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> How much time should it take for a professional contractor to replace the
> wooden fixtures in a church with four columns of pews twenty rows deep
> (the pews are 12 feet wide), and the typical forward arrangement of an
> alter, podium, and one foot high elevated stage? The replacement
> furniture isn't fancy but it has a custom engraving of a cross on each
> side cap. I was told that this engraving, although simple, could take up
> to four weeks to complete.
How big is a box? How high is a cloud?
Such a simple sounding question but how little information to base an
answer. You'd need to know what is pre-made, what is done on site. How are
the present fixtures installed and secured and how will the new one be
installed. How many people in the crew? Hand engraved or machine routed?
Simple design with 10 big changes? Finishing after? It could take a
couple of days or a couple of years.