Commercial Flooring: Shop The Best Price

If you are looking for a good deal on your business’ renovation, but don’t know where to start looking for contractors, you have a few choices. You can seek recommendations, check the yellow pages or do some comparative price shopping to find the best deal. All three choices are good ones, but it is the last choice that could provide you with the best deals.

When looking for commercial flooring contractors, fellow business owners in your area may have some pretty good recommendations. You may be able to talk to a few of the owners about the renovations you are planning on doing to your building to get some ideas about the kind of options available to you. You may find that they recently did renovations and went through some of the same decision making conundrums that you find yourself in.

Talk with them about potential referrals and recommendations. You may be surprised to find that they have a few good names for you to look into. We all know a recommendation is at least a good place to start the process of narrowing down contractor names. If you do get a name of a commercial flooring contractor from a fellow business owner, keep it close. It will come in handy when you start shopping.

Another old stand-by to look for names is the business or yellow pages. Search through and see if there aren’t a few listings for contractors in your immediate area. Finding somebody local may be just the thing to keep costs down. Jot down a few names and numbers to call when it is time for comparing prices.

Once you have a few names, it is time to start shopping. If you aren’t the shopping type, don’t worry this isn’t a regular shopping trip. You are not actually going to buy anything. In fact, in some ways, the contractors you are approaching are going to buy your business. 

Call each contractor and discuss exactly what kind of renovations you are looking at doing. Explain what you have in mind for the new flooring and why you are going with a commercial flooring contractor. Ask for an estimate regarding how much they think the project will cost. They may need to send someone out to the space to get an idea of specifics before they can quote you a price.

After you get that price, review other quotes you have received. This is where the real shopping comes into play. Bargain shopping for the best deal for your project means you need to discuss quotes you have received with the various contractors. They are used to competing with quotes and will work to be the company that provides the best value at the best price.

Eventually, you will wind up with a price tag that is right where you need it to be for your commercial flooring project. All you had to do was a little shopping.