How long does it take?

And keep a few house laws in mind.

Wayne and I have been working on "for Work" and "for Fun" projects since 1992 when my wife was pregnant with son 1 of 2. Her boss at the time introduced us, (nice guy, help supplement salary). That is long enough to have well established 2 house laws:

* For the majority of folks, a second set of hands allows the task at hand to take 1/4 the time compared to doing it yourself. Perhaps for the minority there is a very specific task for which this may be true, but for the majority of tasks for us, it takes twice as long! Not because of incompetence, but we manage to dream up eight times as much stuff that needs to be done in the process to do it right! Wait a second perhaps that is incompetence? Guess so, I just looked it up and our faces are right beside the definition!

* OK enough for esoteric estimates. "THIS IS NO JOKE" We came up with a remarkable and effective way of estimating how long something will take. We, independently of each other, make our best attempt to come up with an hour estimate for the project. Then we add the two estimates together. >>>>> now instead of dividing by two, we "Multiply" by four! That, for the most part, gets us just about half done!

Now that we have a foundation of "House Rules" and "House Laws" HERE WE GO forward to build a Europa >>>> ^^^^^