Before you hire
From “we want to open up the kitchen” to quotes you can compare.
What to settle before you ask anybody for a number, and the order that keeps the upper hand yours.
Know what is possible before you start spending.
Four steps decide how the whole thing goes, and each one makes the next cheaper.
- 1. What you want. What the room has to do, and what you will not give up.
- 2. What is allowed. The questions about the house and the rules, each with a name against who answers it.
- 3. Drawings. The job on paper, so there is one job to price.
- 4. Pricing. Last, because a price against a blank page is a guess.
Three builders, three prices, three different jobs.
Price a job nobody has drawn and you get three prices for three different jobs. A drawing is the cheapest money in the whole renovation: it makes the three sheets you compare the same room, the same walls and the same finishes.
Three sheets that look alike.
Each builder priced the job they pictured. The columns line up and the work does not.
The cheapest understood the least.
A low number usually means work was left out. It comes back as a change order, with the van already on your driveway.
Asking for a price starts a relationship.
Somebody spends an evening measuring your house. By the time the sheet lands you feel bound to them.
Written by the people who ran the projects.
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