This is a slightly modified version of the house cost table that will appear in the latest edition of Chris Magwood and Peter Mack's book Straw Bale Building .
All figures are in Canadian dollars and the table includes almost every dollar that we spent as of May 2003.
Architect
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All architect fees, plans, revisions, etc.
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$15,484.20
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Total:
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$15,484.20
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Permits and Approvals
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Driveway Permit Fee
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$150.00
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Building Permit Fee
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$250.00
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Septic System Fee
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$325.00
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Electrical Inspection and Permit
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$296.39
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Total:
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$1,021.39
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Site Preparation
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All excavating, packing, purchase & installation of septic bed and tank, grading and topsoil
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$15,699.95
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Drilled well and casing
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$3,303.09
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Excavating and gravel for 810m driveway
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$8,822.25
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Total:
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$27,825.29
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Foundation
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Footings - Insulated concrete forms, rebar, lumber and plywood for freestanding concrete footings, labour, pump truck for concrete
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$18,537.84
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Poured, tinted 35.5 m3 concrete floor, insulated
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$7,986.35
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Total:
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$26,524.19
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Framing and Roof
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Custom fabricating, welding and installation of post shoes and brackets for post and beam
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$1,825.00
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Parallams, lumber, roof trusses, joists, strapping, hurricane clips, all nuts, bolts and hardware for post and beam
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$43,768.95
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Engineer Stamp for post & beam
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$535.00
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Crane and boom truck rentals for installing post and beam and custom roof corners
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$1,816.30
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Roof - plywood, Gavalum metal roof, trim, flashing, chimney and cathedral support, ice and water shield and labour
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$14,438.50
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Total:
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$62,383.75
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Straw Bale Work
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Straw Bales, 600 used approx. 450
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$900.00
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Transport bales to house site
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$624.02
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Bale work - raising and bale prep
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$6,250.00
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Plastering - 2 coats exterior and interior
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$9,575.00
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Plaster pump rental
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$1,000.00
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Materials - mesh, hemp fibres, accelerator
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$957.00
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Cement, brick sand washed and trucked in and twine for straw bale walls
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$2,460.88
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Gavalum flashing for base of exterior walls
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$462.88
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Total:
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$22,229.78
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Custom Windows
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64 Custom fibreglass windows by Thermotech including installation
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$53,252.15
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Galvalum window flashing
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$48.30
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Total:
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$53,300.45
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Doors
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Solid wood Madawaska western red cedar doors - front doors are french doors, 1 exterior, 4 interior with sandblasted glass
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$2,864.60
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Glass and stain for doors
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$609.00
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Hardware for 12 doors and locks for 4
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$1,549.38
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Total:
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$5,022.98
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Interior Finishing
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Ceiling Insulation (Roxol)
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$4,133.64
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Vapour barrier for ceiling insulation, tape, drywall supplies, tools, lumber, electrical supplies, nails, screws, stain, paint, staples, foam, silicon, etc. (This is basically all the money we spent at Rona, Home Depot, etc - the little things do add up!).
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$8,937.15
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Custom kitchen drawers, cupboards, pantry and countertops
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$2,585.00
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Total:
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$15,655.79
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Electrical
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Solar and Wind system including 8 85 Watt BP Solar PV modules, one Whisper H80 wind turbine on an 80 foot tower, 8 Surrette Big Red batteries, Xantrex control and conversion equipment, 48 Volt deep well submersible pump that is built for use with solar systems, installed by Generation Solar
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$39,486.16
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Honda Generator
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$2,553.00
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Wiremold system for running all wiring. The wiremold looks like wood baseboards and runs on top of plaster walls with electrical and telephone wiring inside.
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$2,785.46
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Various electrical - wiring, switches, plates, plugs, etc.
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$105.79
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Lighting - 18 - 5 centrepiece hanging kitchen lights, 12 pot lights, 1 outdoor fixture and 3 fans
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$4,470.00
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Total:
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$49,400.41
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Water/Plumbing
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All plumbing work - running lines from well to house, all plumbing within house, installation of tank, one finished bathroom, one roughed-in bathroom, kitchen, laundry room
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$6,875.00
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Solar thermal system on custom designed mounts from Peterborough Green-Up
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$5,456.20
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Bathroom and kitchen fixtures - tub, sink, Terrazo shower stall, toilet, all fixtures
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$5,490.35
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Total:
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$17,821.55
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Other Mechanicals
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Installation of telephone line to house - over 810m
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$2,436.39
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Installation and fill of propane tank, all lines outside and inside house for propane hot water boiler and kitchen stove
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$4,186.42
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Radiant in-floor heating system installed
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$12,099.00
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Appliances - energy efficient refrigerator, gas range, dishwasher, front-loading washer
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$5,095.00
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Rentals - scaffolding and generator (before purchase), genie lift
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$3,725.43
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Total:
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$27,542.24
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Grand Total:
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$324,212.02
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