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LakeLackey · 09-03-2004, 04:51 PM

JustSold gave you good info about building on an island. Did you make it clear to the people at the Log Cabin show that you were building on an island when they gave you the 1/3 to 1/2 ratios? If you did, then maybe they were just trying to get a sale. The ratios sound like familiar stats for a "standard" install.....island install is anything but standard....so the figures of up to 5x do not sound ridulous.

I wish you good luck with your cabin. Where you own land on Rattlesnake, it seems that you are already grossly aware that anything done on an island is very involved and expensive. JustSold mentioned some items like workers going by boat, here are some others: workers having to go to work by snowmobile and hoovercraft, barge costs are high but the barges are not charging exhorbitant rates, renting and barging trucks and equipment and extra hours of cost just in shipping and loading and unloading, costs for "supply runs" are exhorbitant, lugging equipment and machines necessary to build something are costly, the state will go after you for the wetlands shoreline protection (hay bales, silt fence, engineering fees, reclamation, etc.) fixup and cleanup and repair upon completion (there will be damage as a result of loading and unloading and driving equipment off barges and onto the property) which will run in the thousands of dollars (wait till you see what a bale of hay costs gross to be installed, this'll make you think a great $50 steak is a bargain), only certain workers and finish subcontractors will even do work on an island so their rates are commensurate with services provided, and more. Again, best of luck with you home.

09-03-2004, 04:51 PM	#3
LakeLackey Junior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 8 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	JustSold Gave Good Info About Log Cabin On Island JustSold gave you good info about building on an island. Did you make it clear to the people at the Log Cabin show that you were building on an island when they gave you the 1/3 to 1/2 ratios? If you did, then maybe they were just trying to get a sale. The ratios sound like familiar stats for a "standard" install.....island install is anything but standard....so the figures of up to 5x do not sound ridulous. I wish you good luck with your cabin. Where you own land on Rattlesnake, it seems that you are already grossly aware that anything done on an island is very involved and expensive. JustSold mentioned some items like workers going by boat, here are some others: workers having to go to work by snowmobile and hoovercraft, barge costs are high but the barges are not charging exhorbitant rates, renting and barging trucks and equipment and extra hours of cost just in shipping and loading and unloading, costs for "supply runs" are exhorbitant, lugging equipment and machines necessary to build something are costly, the state will go after you for the wetlands shoreline protection (hay bales, silt fence, engineering fees, reclamation, etc.) fixup and cleanup and repair upon completion (there will be damage as a result of loading and unloading and driving equipment off barges and onto the property) which will run in the thousands of dollars (wait till you see what a bale of hay costs gross to be installed, this'll make you think a great $50 steak is a bargain), only certain workers and finish subcontractors will even do work on an island so their rates are commensurate with services provided, and more. Again, best of luck with you home.