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Here's where we're at on your kitchen — about 200 square feet, mid-grade finishes, keeping your existing layout, with the one real change being moving the sink out to the island. That sink move is the part worth talking through, because it's not a plumbing swap — it's the biggest single driver on this job. On a wall, a sink drains and vents easy. Out in the middle of the room on an island, the drain and supply have to run under the floor to get there — and in Houston that almost always means cutting and trenching the concrete slab, running the new lines, venting the island sink to code (an air-admittance valve or a loop vent), then pouring the slab back and patching before your new floor goes down. It also pulls a city plumbing permit and an inspection. All of that is priced in below. Here's the shape of the number: - Labor — full crew, demo through final set (at our $85/hr rate): about $11,600 - Sink relocation to the island — supply & drain move, slab cut and pour-back, code venting: $1,200 plumbing plus materials - Mid-grade material allowances — cabinet/island work, quartz counters, flooring, backsplash, sink/faucet/disposal, paint: roughly $11,600–$15,000, preliminary until you pick finishes - Permit & debris — Houston plumbing permit, inspection, dumpster: about $1,250 - Contingency (12%): adds roughly $3,100–$3,900 That lands the job in the range of $28,700 to $37,000. The labor, the $1,200 plumbing, and the 12% contingency are set at our standard rates. The material side is preliminary — it moves with the finishes you choose and with what we find at the slab. Two things tighten that range fast, and both get sorted at a site visit: confirming the slab (whether there are post-tension cables in the cut path, which changes how we cut it) and locking your finish selections. If the island doesn't already have a cabinet that'll take a sink base, that's the other thing we'd catch there. Next step is 30 minutes on site — I'll confirm the slab, check the island, and walk the finishes with you, then firm this up into a fixed number. Let me know a couple of days next week that work for you. — your general contractor — BEFORE YOU SEND (note to you, not the client — delete this whole section) — Fill-in: sign the letter with your business name in place of "— your general contractor." Firm vs. estimated figures: - FIRM (straight off your rate card): labor at $85/hr, the $1,200 plumbing-relocation flat, and the 12% contingency. The hours on each labor line are my read of the work — sanity-check them against yours. - ESTIMATED, REPLACE BEFORE SENDING: every material/allowance dollar figure — cabinets/island $1,800, counters $4,200, flooring $1,980, backsplash $900, fixtures $1,200, plumbing materials $650, patch $420, paint $450, permit $600, dumpster $650. Your rate card gave me your labor rate, your 20% markup, and the plumbing flat, but not your actual supplier/material costs, so those are Houston-market ballpark numbers. Swap them for your real allowance/supplier pricing (I baked roughly 20% markup into them — confirm it matches your card) and the total will settle. - Not priced, decide before you commit a fixed number: if the slab is post-tension, cutting it needs a cable scan first and a different method. I did not price that — flag it to the client as a possible add once we've scanned on site. Same for a new island cabinet if the existing one won't take a sink base.