What is your oven worth

[DrakeRemoray]

Re: What is your oven worth

Brick saw rental with blade wear....$180
Physical Therapy for strained wrist muscles...$400
Pizza in my own back yard.....priceless!
...someone had to do it.


Ouch, OK I just looked in MS Money to see what my wife had categorized it as...it came out to $9,348.71. Now that seems to include every home depot run last summer, so I think it is slightly overstated (home depot total is about $1400). It also includes the brick for the pavestone patio in front of the oven. I would have guessed around $5000, so in my mind I was clearly lowballing...

Drake

[CanuckJim]

Re: What is your oven worth

Guys,

I've not yet had the guts to actually count up what I spent building my oven, though I should for tax purposes. At a rough guess, not counting my labor, I figure my oven is worth in excess of $20 K, but, then again, I went a bit wild on it, both in overbuilding and decoration, and it still ain't finished.

Jim

[maver]

Re: What is your oven worth

I'm selling my house and am pricing my oven separate from the house - it will cost me a bit to move it if the new owners don't buy it, but I'll have pizza sooner at the new house then. It will still cost less to move than to make a new one. I'll let you know what the oven goes for if they choose to purchase it.

[Bacterium]

Re: What is your oven worth

Maybe it could be broken down into 3 general areas:

1 - Base - supporting structure, including site prep.

2 - Oven (itself) - hearth floor, oven, insulation, flue, door/s -

3 - Surrounding structure - generally what houses the oven - the surrounding structure could be very little (stucco etc.) or a lot.

.....plus how much do they want to do themselves

its an interesting question, I have had a couple people interested in either building there own or buying one.....these are the sort of things I throw at them

[RTflorida]

I am asking this because after one day of my wife emailing everyone she knows pictures of my completed oven I have had 2 people ask if I were going into business making ovens (they apparently are interested).
I certainly didn't build it for a chance at a new carreer; nor do I think I am at a level high enough to do so. Great learning experience; though.
But, this got me thinking, what would our ovens cost to have someone build your entire oven to your specs or how much would you sell it for if it could be easily moved.
I have a figure in mind for my oven which has cost about $1700 for all materials and tools needed. To do it again for someone else I'd say 7500-10000; for my fairly simple build
Does that seem out of line to anyone? Again, I'm not looking for business, but I would like to be informative when someone ask 'where and how much).
Give it some thought, I'm sure most don't relize how valuable their ovens actually are.

RT