While anyone can get a SF price from Means, that doesn't mean that that price is what they should expect to pay for their job. Means, uses averages, it's just like saying that the average residential fire sprinkler system will cost $1.61 per SF. If you take that another way, The average home, will cost $1.61 per SF. Both have different meaning's and can only be applied in a very general way. What is an average home? Where are you building?
The only residential job we've done in the past 10 years for anywhere near $1.61 SF was a Habitat for Humanity, and in the end we donated that too. Every house we do has an antifreeze system. Every house we do has a RPZ BFP. Every house we do has a 1-1/2" or 2-1/2" FDC. Every house we do has Vaulted ceilings. Every house we do has Beamed ceilings. Every house we do has walk-in closets. Every house we do has bathrooms over 55 SF. About 1/2 of the houses we do have pumps, with that extra weekly exercise controller. Every house we do uses concealed heads. 50% of the houses we do have custom color cover plates. I could go on for pages, but my point is that the "Average" homes I do are not the "Average" homes you may be doing. Just as the average jobs we do are not like the average jobs in Means. Thom McMahon, SET Firetech, Inc. 2560 Copper Ridge Dr P.O. Box 882136 Steamboat Springs, CO 80488 Tel: 970-879-7952 Fax: 970-879-7926 _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
