Is there a "ballpark" figure for professional layout design? Do designers charge by the hour? square footage? overall length?
Any comments about cost range on some basis will be appreciated.
A discussion on this last fall:
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/11/p/265321/2998035.aspx#top
And a Google search turns up many professional designers and builders, to get some idea. Some have ball park figures in their web site.
From what I have read, many use the square footage of the room your going to use, to base prices.
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Bob Sprague, who has a lot of plans in MR has a site - https://www.bobstrackplans.com/There's just one catch, he's got a severe backlog of over 6-8 months
I used Bob to get an early version of my railroad, my plan since changed and the plan isn't as usable and I'm a very picky person so I didn't really nitpick too much since he did it for free it's a great plan and I hope to use parts of it in my ultimate plan when I'm more experienced...
Steve
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Along the same lines, how much do layout custom builders charge?
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The only way to know is to design and quote the project fully. Even then, there are overruns and material and labor buffers to be considered.
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If you do it yourself, I've seen estimates of $100 / sq ft.
Add to it labor
Don - Specializing in layout DC->DCC conversions
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