Hi, this is like asking "how long is a piece of string". Porcelain tops are not priced by the square meter but instead on how much material is required, which type of Vasari you select and how much labour is involved in the fabrication and installation. Every kitchen benchtop is different and needs to be priced accordingly. I would suggest you talk to your local Cabinetmaker experienced in Porcelain tops or your local specialist Stone Fabricator for a quote. Hope this helps, Malcolm.

At one stage , this almost morphed into a car thread -- I just thought I'd put up some pics of quite a nice car With the sloping grille , that windscreen , etc , you'd wonder if it is a custom , but believe it or not , it is a 1925 Rolls Royce Phantom 1 coupe ! I just googled , and between 1925 and 1931 , 3512 sedans were sold , and 18 -- yes 18 -- of the coupes ! I'd say that 97 years ago , this would have been extremely radical . The sedan wasn't too bad and I'd be interested in the prices of the 2 at the time ( I can only assume the coupe was SOOOO expensive that not many people could afford them ? ) . Or maybe the coupe was considered ugly ? Who knows . As far as current values go , with only 18 coupes they are worth what someone will pay , but the last publicly reported sale was The Peterson Musuem in the US paid $1.5million for one . In 1991 . 31 years ago . No idea of its condition at the time , and it is on display now . At a guess though , I'd be surprised if you could get one now for under $40 million , and if someone sold one for $100 million it wouldn't even surprise me . Certainly one of my dream cars .

I can't quite work out exactly what you'd do . Possibly sit on it and hope the values go up ? If you built a 'modest' $1.5mil house in front , the existing place will be worth almost nothing , as it will be the worst house in the best street , BUT without a view . So you've paid nearly $12 mil for the 'front' ( beachside ) section then built a modest house that will owe you nearly $14 mil . If you built a 'flash' place like next door ( the place next door isn't to my taste , but it does look impressive with the palms etc ) I'm guessing you won't get much change out of $6 , 8 , even $10mil , so again it will owe you $20 mil plus , which is about what the place next door would sell for , and I'm guessing it would take a while to sell . And if you did the flash house , you'd probably want to bowl over the existing place , and have an impressive yard ? Of course , you could try and bowl the existing place , and build 2 upmarket houses , but the one closest the beach is always going to be worth several million more than the 'back' place , so you are paying say $9 mil for the front section , and $3 mil for the back one -- so whether you built a $2 mil house at the back , or a $10 mil one , will anyone want them at $5mil or $13mil ? Basically , thats what you'd pay for one on the beach , not one 30 metres back behind another fl;asher place . So what about apartments / executive units ? You'd maybe fit 6 that are 2 or even 3 stories tall , but 5 will only have sea 'glimpses' , and everyone will want the closest to the beach one . The sections alone ( without costs of getting seperate title etc ) will owe you a bit over $2 mil each , so if you built $1 million or $2 million units , you'd have to sell them for $3.5 mil or $4.5 mil each , just to break even . You might get that for the beachside one , but the rest you'd struggle IMO . So yeah , they aren't making any more beach land , so in theory it will get rarer and always go up in price , but I still think you'd need huge coconuts to pay $12.25 mil for that place !

We just had quotes for garage doors and they started at $6,000, then go to $10,000 and the next price point is $15,000. It depends on the type of materials you are using and the door opening. The guy quoting showed us one that was similar to your first photo and had said it was $30,000. All in all, they are not cheap. it was useful to have someone out to quote and help with the options.