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Originally Posted by 4X4
^ As a decorator? Does picking out curtains mean you know anything about construction? Operating a brad nailer notwithstanding.
I don't know how you could have read the OP without agreeing that $25,000 is an insanely low price for the work described.
These DIY shows are just brutal. I just don't even want to start. Please, people, don't believe everything you see on TV. And if you find a contractor that's willing to do it for 1/3 of the price that all the other ones quoted you, have fun with that. I look forward to the thread asking why there's water leaking into your fireplace or something.
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I am not sure the extent of the damage/work done in that show. I do know that most shows do cover a part of the cost. It does seem like that should've cost more like $35K, but a lot of the people I know that work in the industry would've probably charged $60+
I, or my father who used to be a contractor, know a bunch of people in the industry and it's usually how many corners can we cut and gouge at the same time. The house I'm currently working on, I got quoted nearly double the cost of what it should cost to do the work I'm doing by 4 different people (it's a lot of basic stuff) if I was not someone they knew. Yet they chopped nearly all of the excess BS if they were doing it for me.
The entire industry is mostly a joke.