Fasteddie, that sound pretty cheap for the materials, the ply alone for 25' should be 6-9 sheets (depending on construction) at $40 per, and when I last priced the corbels and braces they were $25-70 apiece.

One of the attractive things about the fiberglass is there's nothing like that ply to rot out, or even paint if you order it with colored resin.

Sam, could you email me a contact # for Mike?

I had my cornice repaired by Mike Villas a carpenter with the help of Over the River Brownstone. They also do complete building of cornices. I would not under any circumstances use KDK.

I designed and built a cornice for my house about 5 years ago and had my contractor install it piece by piece. The overhang was built as a 1/2" plywood box beam in 3 sections and bolted onto the house. Brackets and mouldings are lightweight foam products designed for outdoor use, purchased and picked locally at Outwater Plastics. I don't know exactly what the whole thing cost me because labor price was integrated in a larger scope of work being done by the contractor at the time but the materials were about $300.This was across a 25' frame house front. PM me your email address if interested in seeing a pic of the finished project.

brewster, I can't imagine anything custom, and ornamental, costing less than $5k installed.

I wonder if Jaime would do something like that.

cant help you but I'm curious as well. I need some work done on mine..

My parapet needs repair and so I'm thinking now is the time to restore the long lost cornice. Has anyone ever done this, and what did it cost?

I mean a nice one, not one of those crappy half hearted ovehangs with a couple of brackets. I'm looking at some of the premolded fiberglass options (nonhistoric district) where the whole thing is just a couple of sections that get bolted on, rather than built up piece by piece. But when I got a price for it 8 years ago it was $200/ft plus installation! Ouch.