I own a small contracting business, specializing in pavers/walks/patios/etc, but I also run another business as well that I just purchased a building for. The building is 12,600 sq ft, 7600 of which is 35' ceiling warehouse, and 4800 which is offices (split into 2400 sq ft floors). The building is new construction, and it has 10' drop ceiling lights/vents/etc/ outlets already installed. I need to have a GC come in and prepare my ONE floor quickly for my people to move here and start working (I currently lease elsewhere for this business).
The work that needs to be done is a basic floorplan of 7 offices, each with mid range expense doors/windows.
Thirteen cat6 outlets.
Twenty electrical outlets.
A couple of the light fixtures in the drop ceiling moved to fit proper in my office layout.
A few new vents.
A few existing vents moved to fit inside office layout.
All lights reswitched for each office.
Framework that needs to tie in above the drop ceiling to the rafters or something (which looks fairly complex).
Give or take 2000 sq ft of 26oz commercial carpet.
All painted.
I talked to a friend of mine in the business who does this type of general contracting, he quoted me 37k. He is going to get the job done in 4 weeks, with a 250$ penalty per business day past that.
I'm not sure this price is all too good, and if there are any GC's from this forum in the Philadelphia suburb area interested, or anyone that could give me some advice, I'd appreciate it. I almost want to tackle this job myself with my hardscaping crew, but I'm worried that being this is our first serious framing work, we may have delays.
What should I do? By the way, I settle on this building Aug 17th, and would like to start fitout immediately thereafter.
Thanks everyone in advance, I'm sure many of you can give some input.
-Chris
The work that needs to be done is a basic floorplan of 7 offices, each with mid range expense doors/windows.
Thirteen cat6 outlets.
Twenty electrical outlets.
A couple of the light fixtures in the drop ceiling moved to fit proper in my office layout.
A few new vents.
A few existing vents moved to fit inside office layout.
All lights reswitched for each office.
Framework that needs to tie in above the drop ceiling to the rafters or something (which looks fairly complex).
Give or take 2000 sq ft of 26oz commercial carpet.
All painted.
I talked to a friend of mine in the business who does this type of general contracting, he quoted me 37k. He is going to get the job done in 4 weeks, with a 250$ penalty per business day past that.
I'm not sure this price is all too good, and if there are any GC's from this forum in the Philadelphia suburb area interested, or anyone that could give me some advice, I'd appreciate it. I almost want to tackle this job myself with my hardscaping crew, but I'm worried that being this is our first serious framing work, we may have delays.
What should I do? By the way, I settle on this building Aug 17th, and would like to start fitout immediately thereafter.
Thanks everyone in advance, I'm sure many of you can give some input.
-Chris