{"id":341,"date":"2010-12-04T17:27:45","date_gmt":"2010-12-05T00:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayresrocks.com\/blog\/?p=341"},"modified":"2010-12-04T17:27:45","modified_gmt":"2010-12-05T00:27:45","slug":"metrics-measuring-other-indicators-and-blah-blah-blah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayresrocks.com\/blog\/?p=341","title":{"rendered":"Metrics, measuring other indicators and blah blah blah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I like numbers. I like being able to define something in a meaningful dollar value to compare my efforts to commercial\/professional results. I&#8217;m going to start adding a component to the project costs which measures the cost of our house per square metre right up until it is finished.<\/p>\n<p>Internally &#8220;finished&#8221;\u00a0will\u00a0include the basic livablility items such as\u00a0bathrooms,\u00a0laundry and a functional\u00a0kitchen but\u00a0exclude items where personal taste can blow the budget &#8211; kitchen cabinetry and appliances, floor tiles,\u00a0carpets, curtains, taps\u00a0and light fittings for example.<\/p>\n<p>Externally I will include the earthworks, verandahs, pergola,\u00a0water tanks, hot water system, power system and pre-slab plumbing in the cost per square metre as these are all integral to the livability of the house. I will not include the physical footprint of the pergolas or verandahs in that calculation since they are almost equal to the size of the house itself.<\/p>\n<p>As of right now, the cost of our house per square metre (at 288 square metres)\u00a0is $205.04\u00a0 If I\u00a0include the verandahs and pergola (total of 506 square metres) that would skew the figure to $116.67 which is not representative of the cost of the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like numbers. I like being able to define something in a meaningful dollar value to compare my efforts to commercial\/professional results. I&#8217;m going to start adding a component to the project costs which measures the cost of our house per square metre right up until it is finished. Internally &#8220;finished&#8221;\u00a0will\u00a0include the basic livablility items [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayresrocks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayresrocks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayresrocks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayresrocks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayresrocks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ayresrocks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayresrocks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayresrocks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayresrocks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}