Question-and-Answer Session
Operator
Thank you. (Operator Instructions). We'll take our first question from Robert Rodriguez with First Pacific Advisors.
Robert Rodriguez
Good morning Dick.
Unidentified Company Representative
How are you Bob?
Robert Rodriguez
Fine thank you. I just wanted to say congratulations to you for executing an extremely difficult transition here. It is a breath of fresh air to see the costs that you've been attacking as well as the consolidations and the elimination of excesses so.
Unidentified Company Representative
Bob, from all this management team, given the results we turned in this year, you have no idea of what that comment means to us. Thank you.
Robert Rodriguez
You are welcome. But I'm curious about the RV Group's cost containment, reductions and everything. When you adjust look, they look materially better. But in the case of the housing, obviously there are some costs in there that were not in the press release such as the incremental cost from the delays at Fort Carson plant shifts, because if I adjust for the elements that were publicly disclosed, it looks like the operating costs were about 5.3 versus 5.2 on Q4, and for the year at 20.2 versus 19.6 for the year-end operating cost. So I know I'm missing something in there and if you could help clarify that to better demonstrate what the adjusted cost might be.
Rick Bedell
Well Bob, this is Rick Bedell. There are a couple of things in operation there. First of all, low utilization of some of the plants as well as the lack of the planned revenue that we had coming out of Colorado and Iowa relative to the Fort Carson project. I don't want to talk specifically about what kind of revenue numbers we're talking about, but it's fairly significant.
Robert Rodriguez
Can you give us an idea of let's say what the cost impact might have been?
Rick Bedell
The cost impact is probably in the range of 20% to 30%.
Robert Rodriguez
20% to 30%. I was looking for in terms of a dollar number; 20% to 30% exactly of what?
Rick Bedell
20% to 30% of revenue which would have been somewhere in the vicinity of about $200,000 to $300,000 at the bottom line or at the gross profit line.
Robert Rodriguez
GP line; and what was the utilization rate there in your operations?
Rick Bedell
Well, for Iowa and Colorado, the utilization rate for the plants was close to?
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