Fw: Cost estimates for KGEZ
----- Original Message -----
From: "Benjamin Dawson" <dawson@hatdaw.com>
To: "Fred and Connie Leistiko" <fleistiko@centurytel.net>
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 11:22 AM
Subject: Cost estimates for KGEZ
> Fred
>
> One of the contractors who frequently installs facilities of the sort that
> would be needed says that it's very difficult to come up with a ballpark
> estimate for the installation labor, and it's very dependent on the timely
> schedule of the other tasks. He says that it might be good to bump up the
> installation labor cost (5th from the last line in my spreadsheet) to as
> much as $75K. That would bring the total to $537,400.
>
> There are so darn many unknowns, and that together with the fact that
> you're dealing with a recalcitrant character like Stokes makes any
> estimate pretty tough! He, of course, will tell you that everything
> needs to be gold-plated to match what he has, even though what he has is
> just one level above junk to begin with, and is not well maintained to
> boot.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ben
>