Living in Silicon Valley, you become accustomed to everyone having a website. My friends have websites (here and here, just a few), my company is the most popular website in the world, even my little MG shop has a website.
So it is surprising and sometimes disappointing that the contractors that we are talking to don’t [...]
Entries from July 2006
July 19, 2006
Where’s the Website
July 19, 2006
$1,000 for Towel Racks!!!???
We got a bid from another contactor last night. Since I don’t really know what I am looking for, I need to check out the things that seem a bit obvious. In this case, it was $1,000 for towel racks. One thousand dollars.
Can you imagine what $1,000 worth of towel racks looks like? They better [...]
July 7, 2006
First Estimate is In
We got our first estimate in today. It was about 10% lower then our budget is, but didn’t include things like landscaping and permits. I’ve heard that permits can be as much as 8 - 10% of the value of the project. Landscaping is probably another 10 - 15% of the cost of the project. [...]
