Remodeling Contractors: Finding One You Can Trust

Mar 20
18:49

2011

Aloysius Aucoin

Aloysius Aucoin

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If you can find a good remodeling contractor, it will be like the answer to your most desperate prayers. Good remodelers can take your fledgling plans and turn them into the vision of your dreams. Here’s how to find them.

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If you can find a good remodeling contractor,Remodeling Contractors: Finding One You Can Trust Articles it will be like the answer to your most desperate prayers. Good remodelers can take your fledgling plans and turn them into the vision of your dreams. They will do so with professionalism and class, letting you be a guiding light and full partner in the process. Best of all, they won’t charge you exorbitant prices to do so, because they will always be looking for ways to save you money without compromising the integrity of the job. It has to be said, though: the perfect company is rare. Still, you can get pretty close if you follow this path to your hire.

Your first step is to make a list of all the potential remodeling contractors in your area. Don’t hold a company’s lack of advertising against them. After all, do you want a great marketer redoing your bathroom or do you want someone skilled and artistic to do the job? The two traits don’t necessarily go hand in hand or have anything to do with one another. Naturally, those with the best advertising are probably making a lot of money in the business, but, again, this isn’t any of your concern. You want someone who is going to do the job, and do the job right. The first time. Nothing in a billboard or television advertisement is going to indicate their ability to do so.

When making your list, think hard about whether you want to include people you know in your personal life on that list. For instance, you may have an Uncle Bobby who fancies himself a handy carpenter. And he may very well be. Going through him or his company could probably save you a lot of money. But here’s the tricky thing about hiring relatives and friends. Yes, their feelings will probably be hurt if you pass them over. But on the other hand, friends and relatives have a tendency to put jobs for people they know on the backburner. Work they’ll do when they have the time. You can get in this type of situation and have your job take months to complete when it should have taken only days or weeks.

Once you have your list, start making phone calls, getting price quotes for the work you want done. Call at least five remodeling contractors to see what the average price for the job is in your area. Cross reference some of your favorites with the Better Business Bureau and an online search. This will help you eliminate bad apples and get you closer to making a choice you’ll be happy with in the long run.