2 story home with crawlspace fee
2 story home with crawlspace fee
(OP)
I have been asked for a fee to design a fairly typical 2 story home over a crawlspace, footprint about 55' x 25'. I deal mostly in commercial construction, so may be out of touch with what an appropriate fee for a home would be. any $/sf number, or $/sheet anyone has?
RE: 2 story home with crawlspace fee
Add another 2K if structural drawings needed.
Mike McCann, PE, SE (WA)
RE: 2 story home with crawlspace fee
If you are offended by the things I say, imagine the stuff I hold back.
RE: 2 story home with crawlspace fee
SW US (AZ, NM, CA, TX-OK etc) creates another with heat, humidity, no basements ... slab and caleche soil movement.
Midwest (and TX-OK-MO-KS ,etc) need tornado protection, SE US and Gulf need hurricane checks, north and them there frozen environ's need cold weather (permafrost further north) checks ...
Are you sure you've got the regional knowledge base to do the job?
(Then again, when you get around to doing the Yellowstone-blows-up Montana-Wyoming job, call me.)
RE: 2 story home with crawlspace fee
Of course the owner immediately called to let me know they felt the fee was too high. I countered with you can't even put in new carpet these days for $1.5/Sq ft....
My advice: Don't do residential work if you can help it.
-Huck
RE: 2 story home with crawlspace fee
RE: 2 story home with crawlspace fee
RE: 2 story home with crawlspace fee
That. It's hard to see how anybody could make any money at that rate.
Funny that this came up. I got a call from a lawyer this past Thursday wanting me to take a look at a residential project in litigation. The owner is suing the engineer and contractor.