![]() How many of you would even work for $12.50 per hour. Divide $10,000 by 100 and that builder gets $100 a day profit. It takes between 90 and 110 days to build a home. Now, lets just say he gets his 10% or $10,000. So he really homes he can get 10% or $10,000, and usually ends up getting 8% or $8000. If everything goes just right, he might get lucky and make 12% or $12,000. Before it begins, the most a builder hopes to make out of it is $15,000 or 15%. For ease in arithmatic we will use a $100,000 home. Now, I know that everyone thinks that the Builder makes alot of money on a house. First of all those of you who are calling yourselves GC's are wrong. OK Guys: Here is a cheap lesson in Building 101. What would even make you think that siding labor would even be considered in his framing labor? It's not framing, Period!Įven if you talked to him about doing the siding it wasn't mentioned in your contract, right? Framing is Framing and Siding is Siding two seperate jobs. I would think that at a minimum he would have said your siding will cost $X,XXX - Would you like me to install it.The $6000.00 difference for framing labor is way to high and I'm a Framing contractor. I don't know if I'm getting a bad deal or if this has been a bad transaction. I would think that at a minimum he would have said your siding will cost $X,XXX - Would you like me to install it. ![]() My framer always knew that I wanted the siding installed from the very beginning. Our contract never mentioned siding explicitly, nor did it ever mention it would be extra. I was under the impression the entire time that this was to be included in the price of the framing labor. To make matters worse, they installed my cement fiber board siding and billed me for the labor. ![]() There were a lot of problems with the actual workers building things incorrectly. There were some changes from the blueprint, but they were extremely minor. I think either he under bid the cost and was trying to make up for it by switching from roof trusses to regular stick roof framing but still have me pay the extra for framing labor. The total framing materials were about $2000 less that what was originally quoted, but the framing labor increased by about $6000. He said that changing from the roof truss to regular stick framed roof would save me money. He said that the reason the framing labor increased was because we changed from roof truss framing to a regular stick roof framing. The contract also mentioned that changes would be done only with written approval. The contract itself was very short - two pages I think - I don't have it in front of me. We have a contract for framing the house which was broken out into dollar amounts for things like basement, framing materials, framing labor, waterproofing etc.
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