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Not sure why wood is so expensive, I’m paying under $2/m or for cladding wood for the extension I’m building now. Its around $1 per square foot. It gets slightl
by alkonaut 5y ago
Not sure why wood is so expensive, I’m paying under $2/m or for cladding wood for the extension I’m building now. Its around $1 per square foot. It gets slightly more expensive before it’s painted 3 times though (repeat every 15 years as is standard with softwood).
I’m fairly sure I couldn’t find a cheaper exterior cladding. And obviously the cladding is a tiny percentage of the total cost of even just the wall, let alone the whole construction. Cladding will be sub $300 and the 150 sq ft extension is north of $50k all together. Insulation is probably 3-5x what the cladding is, and so is the flooring.
- Kalium 5y agoThe numbers I'm using include installation costs too. Wood and brick are more labor than vinyl as I understand it. I think my key lesson here is that even building smaller, using "better" materials is an expensive matter of taste.
- alkonaut 5y agoPainting is a bit of work but just nailing up standard wooden cladding is such a tiny part of the work it hardly even shows up on the total, including labor! Perhaps this is partially because of the high buikding costs to begin with (It’s cold so walls are 3-400mm, a single window is $6-700 (triple glass) and so on. The BOM for my extension was $25k which is half the total. Cladding including labor is a lot less than $1k. I have never seen a vinyl clad house but I doubt I’d pick one to save that little.