I’ve had fairly a couple of individuals ask me about the price of my DIY fake stone porch skirting and the way it compares to a ready-made stone facade product. So I took a while final evening so as to add up the price of my DIY model.
In fact, the largest price of the DIY model was my time. This was a fairly intensive and time-consuming venture, however to me, it was price it. I do have the benefit of being a DIY blogger, so engaged on DIY tasks is actually my job. It may be completely different for an individual who works one other full-time job after which has to work in these DIY tasks on evenings and weekends. However for me, my predominant goal was to finish up with a porch skirting that appears prefer it was constructed with the very same stone that’s used on the remainder of our home, so spending the time to get it proper was completely price it to me. However whether or not or not that price of time is price it’s one that every particular person has to make. If somebody has restricted time, it’s completely affordable to decide on a ready-made product that’s “shut sufficient”.
However so far as the precise monetary price of this venture, right here’s how the fee breaks down…
Making the molds:
GE 100% All Goal Silicone Caulk – 8 tubes @ $9.48 every = $75.84
Cornstarch – 4 18-ounce packages @ $3.33 every = $13.32
1″ x 4″ x 8′ PVC boards – 5 @ $19.98 every = $99.90
Scrap plywood – available = $0.00
#8 x 1.5″ wooden screws – 1 package deal of 100 @ $11.47 = $11.47
Nice Stuff spray foam – 2 cans @ $4.98 every = $9.96
WD-40 – 1 can @ $8.78 = $8.78
Making and attaching the stones:
Speedy Set Cement All – 4 55-pound luggage @ $29.97 every = $119.88
Speedy Set Mortar – 3 luggage @ $20.97 every = $62.91
Speedy Set Set Management – 2 luggage @ $2.97 every = $5.94
6″ x 2″ concrete margin trowel – 1 @ $14.97 every = $14.97
Mortar bag – 1 @ $6.97 every = $6.97
5 gallon bucket – 1 @ $3.98 every – $3.98
5 quart mixing bucket – 1 @ $3.98 every = $3.98
1 quart container – 2 @ $2.98 every = $5.96
Sprayer – available – $0.00
Complete Value:
As soon as I add tax to these prices, that brings the entire price of my DIY fake concrete porch skirting to $480.48 if I did my math proper (which is all the time questionable 😀 ).
Value Comparability:
How does that worth evaluate to a ready-made product? In fact, there are quite a lot of merchandise on the market that I may evaluate my fake stone facade to, however of all the choices I checked out, there was just one that I’d have significantly thought of. Most stone facade merchandise that seem like Austin stone don’t have the signature 1/2-inch mortar strains between them just like the stone on our home has, and it was necessary to me to have that. Once more, my objective was to make my porch skirting match the stone on our home, and discovering an actual match to our late 1940’s/early 1950’s Austin stone was unimaginable.
However there was one which got here shut, and that was this EverStone polyurethane fake stone panel product within the Fort Rock sample.
Not one of the colours that had obtainable would have labored for me, so I’d have needed to paint it to match. However I had to try this anyway with my DIY model, in order that didn’t deter me in any respect.
Every panel is 49″ huge and 25.5″ excessive, however as you possibly can see, the stone sample doesn’t cowl all of that dimension as a result of they’re made to suit collectively seamlessly. I wanted to cowl an space that was 13.5 inches excessive and a complete of about 230 inches huge. I’d solely be capable to get one piece out of every panel, so I would want a complete of 5 panels. At $93.95 every, that’s $469.75.
Along with the panels, I’d additionally want one of many nook items. I had three corners to cowl, however these nook items are 48″ excessive, so I may have gotten all three corners that I wanted out of 1 piece.
I’ve to confess that the nook items had been form of a deal breaker for me. These are the nook items made to go along with these panels, however they don’t actually appear to match the panels in look. These nook items are $46.55 every. So for the panels and nook piece, plus delivery and tax, the fee could be $579.09.
After which these panels are hooked up utilizing polyurethane adhesive. I estimated that I’d want about six tubes of adhesive like Loctite PL-3, that are $7.48 every. That might add $48.58 (with tax) to the fee, for a complete price of $627.57.
So ultimately, my DIY model ended up being cheaper than the ready-made panels. However once more, they got here at a a lot greater price of my time that I spent making all the molds and pouring every particular person stone. Since I obtained precisely what I wished, I feel the time added was price it for me.
I do assume that is form of an “apples to oranges” comparability, although, since I’m evaluating an exact-match product with a “shut sufficient” product. As a way to get a real “apples to apples” price comparability, I’d have to check the price of my exact-match DIY model to the price of hiring knowledgeable to create an exact-match stone facade on my entrance porch for me, and that price is unimaginable to estimate. Maybe if I lived in a big metropolis like Dallas or Houston, I’d be capable to discover an individual who may try this for me. However I can’t even think about that there’s a particular person in my metropolis who would tackle such a venture, and even on the off likelihood that I may discover one, I’d think about that the worth of getting somebody do that for me would have been within the 1000’s simply primarily based on the time alone. So ultimately, my DIY model that produced an exact-match product was the proper choice for me.
Extra About Our Home Exterior & Yard
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and enhance the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do nearly all of the work on the home on my own. You may study extra about me right here.
