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Originally Posted by MumboJumbo
I understand where you are coming from but if it is so insignificant, why sweat the 2%?
Understand that for a $2000 project (guess-stimate on my part)
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You're not all-together off the mark in your thinking. It's not the end of the world but every $100 and $50 and every other fee in our lives adds up quick. Have you priced a paver patio recently? Gouge-city. We had four different guys come out to quote; they're all over $5000. It's a ripoff no doubt. For all cases it's about 75 hours of labor, and maybe... $1000 in materials max? So even if they added a 50% profit that should still be a lot less than 5 grand. In the end we probably won't be able to justify the cost (and so far the guy hasn't responded to me "I'll worry about the permit" comments to him earlier this week.)
If any of you have had patios done (this one would be about 20x15), I'd be real curious to know what you paid.