Mine only took three months of nights and weekends! And only about half of the weekends were actually spent in the garage and probably two days of the week after work weren't spent in the garage either. If I was single I could have had it done in two months pretty easy. If I had a kid, I would probably assume more like 6 months! Lol and for the record, between materials and tools and all of the odds and ends of this project so far, I think I have right around $1750-$2000 in to it.