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Originally Posted by L-Pink
I'm part owner in a water feature construction and parts supply company. You are pretty much dead on with your estimate. In fact a bit high.
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This is not a fish pond in some ones back yard.
You have a licensed designer on staff to do the renderings for the planning commission presentations. He also had to be at two city council meetings. And then you have a landscape designer to do renderings and presentations at the same meetings. And of course you have a licensed engineer to work with the building inspector to get the building permit. Keep in mind there was no power or water at the site. The water wasn't a huge problem. They had to tunnel about 100' to get to a place in the factory where there was water. The pump is 7.5hp 220v Price that out and then add the disconnects at both ends of nearly 400ft between where there was adequate power in the plant. Now add in the cost of the custom stainless manifold.
The area is low, there was groundwater with 2' of the surface. I can take pictures of the mountain of material they had to remove. It's all still sitting behind the plant.
We had 3 separate companies that specialize in all the areas required to complete a commercial project like this quote the project.
You would've lost your ass on this project.. bigtime.