It's all in the Details

Proving a little more work than I thought. Friend of mine wants me to build him a Chunky Chair just like mine. Pricing all the bits and pieces is taking longer than I thought.

This patio, outdoor, all weather chair is damned ugly, heavy, red and very strong. It will support very big and tall people, short and fat, tall and thin or just gigantic.
Because I built the first one for my own use I kinda overbuilt. Solid steel axles, very heavy duty wheels that were doubled up at the rear, half inch steel bolts, all weather deck nails, two by eight and two by ten inch wood, all painted with a high tech elastomeric paint used by the US military and other reputable organizations to seal the wood for years of all weather service. Makes great copy but pricing quantity and quality is really tedious.

I'm getting there.

Pricing a Labour of Wood

As I mentioned in my last post a friend of mine wants me to build him a Chunky Chair "just like mine". In fact he wanted to buy mine, I declined. He actually fits better in my chair than I do. I'm 6ft and half an inch he is 6ft 3 inches, I weigh a cheeseburger under 300lbs he is really fat. I have no doubt the chair would safely support both of us however his wife would be jealous and I don't want to share.

3 years of designing, building, redesigning and rebuilding means I have no idea what it costs to build one. This weekend I start to add up the material cost and estimate the labour.

Bloody Hell, wish me luck.