On 1/6/2010 12:34 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote: > An interesting alteration is near completion at 797 Madison Avenue, an > 1880s brownstone rowhouse with a store insertion on the ground floor > from the early 20th. > The architect, Costas Terzis, says the cost increment was about > four-fold, $150,000 for the quick and dirty repairs, and $600,000 for > the all-new stone. > *Does that multiple sound credible?* c, yes though a more detailed answer would need to be heavily qualified quarry is one piece of information, more relevant to cost: who is the fabricator? is the stone out of Germany then fabricated in China? is the installation labor open shop or union? my gut reaction is that the $150,000 is too high and the $600,000 is, well, someone is happy but the multiplier if anything is too low, but plausibly maybe not ][<en -- **Please remember to trim posts, as requested in the Terms of Service** To terminate puerile preservation prattling among pals and the uncoffee-ed, or to change your settings, go to: <http://listserv.icors.org/archives/bullamanka-pinheads.html>