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November 2, 2010 by Sandra

Updated expenses

It’s been a while since I updated expenses.  I’ve been waiting for the window invoice and it came today.  We are about $4,000 over the budget we anticipated when we started 16 months ago.  This represents the aluminum glazing that we hadn’t planned for, but felt added a tremendous amount to the overall goal of having windows that didn’t weep water all over the wood and plaster inside.

PERMITS    
HPO Homeowner Exemption Permit $425.00  
Building Permit $1,504.00  
Septic Approval $157.50  
    $2,086.50
PREP COSTS    
Excavation $6,365.00  
    $6,365.00
MATERIALS    
Tire Walls (inc. poly, Metal Lath + portland cement) $573.04  
Perimeter drain (inc. PVC pipe and fittings, filter cloth) $528.46  
Thermal Wrap (inc. poly, rigid insulation, tuck tape) $3,781.10  
Nails/other fasteners $28.09  
Tires $0.00  
Dirt $0.00  
Tire press $0.00  
Cardboard $0.00  
Portland cement for bond beam & pop can form $341.71  
Plumbing general $78.10  
Rebar bond beam $180.35  
Sill gasket – bond beam $68.99  
Misc plumbing for rough septic/greywater overflow $91.91  
Framing materials $44.46  
Wood stain $1,659.11  
Electrical $1,125.65  
Misc $163.98  
Roof $13,376.16  
End walls $217.16  
South wall $13,717.81  
Equipment $83.99  
    $36,060.07
     
Total   $44,511.57
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Comments

  1. Joseph Beckenbach says

    December 1, 2010 at 10:48 pm

    Only 10% over. That’s pretty good! Especially when you consider you anticipate going “late” by 25-33% ….

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