NEED A REALITY CHECK ON PROJECT TIME

[DWC in NorCal]

I'm the volunteer HOA President for my condo building. We just replaced the water main valve for our building and the invoice seems way out of whack.

We had shutoff valves on all three sides of this old valve setup so you could turn off the water and then remove the old setup you can see here. New valves then swapped in. The total cost of all materials was about $3,000. Can anyone give me a ballpark estimate of the reasonable amount of time you would spend on a job like this? (Permits were obtained separately so just trying to figure out how many hours it would reasonably take to remove and replace the old setup as you see). Thanks in advance!

 

[Geofd]

Is that one pip feeding 2 different systems???, when we change os+y valves we usually install a brand called " American ball valve" it's just a preference, it's a "ball"valve rather than what you have
From what it was to what it looks like now
Is a big change, you may think about the copper coming off that 1st valve at some
Point some of the components look kind of rough, those American ball valve are designed to fit between the flanges

 

[MicEd69]

An industrial rule of thumb for new construction for piping work is that materials account for around 25% of the cost of a simple installation. So, that would make your cost of labor for the installation of your $3,000 of materials something around $9,000. Adding maybe $3,000 for the dismantling of the old stuff, I would make a guess of the total job cost to be around $15,000. And depending on the urgency of the work, overtime used, difficulty of dismantling, and other issues that could impact the costs, I could see a price in the $20,000 range to be within reason.

Is that close to what you were charged?

 

[Rossando]

One day job with one or two helpers.
I'd see this figure be 10k easy in my area. My coworkers did one similar and it was a two man job for getting in in place and once that was done only one guy stayed to finish the installation the Test and purge etc.

Wasnt there an estimate you guys approved before the start of this job?

Lots of factors in these companies when they are selling jobs like this. They absorb a lot of liability and from my perspective the more I absorb the more the price goes up, definitely more to construction then time and materials. By the time I get to jobs I'm already in the negative because of insurance, gas, fees etc.

 

[Geofd]

I'm still curious to know what both branches do??????