Bathroom Renovation Columbia

[Saltydog235]

Maybe not, water damage, Bathrooms, kitchen, floor tile, laminate flooring, and landscaping. You gotta have a budget and council to protect the pocket book. You don't want your buddy doing it either. Anyway it works for me.

I just had one that said they were on a budget, I consulted with them on everything and presented the options all the way through. He doubled the size of the deck, chose the most expensive composite decking line Timbertech made (their budget was for KDAT decking) went from a $25K deck to a $52K deck, hardwood over the LVT they originally chose, chose a downdraft and gas range that was $4k over the $4K budget I had for them, on and on. This didn't even take in the rot we uncovered, the encapsulation of the crawlspace, new front porch steps etc. They were adding things left and right, he got pissed at me, she got pissed at him, I got paid and they found a marriage counselor after being married for 40yrs. They hired a cheap guy to do the bathroom we uncovered rot in after I had designed it without telling me, called me last week to please come back and help them out, nope I'm done with that one. They ended up spending 2.5X what their budget was just with me. I see a lot of this be it new construction or renovations.

[JOHNSON]

I got to see a 30,000sqft build going on in Tryon the other day with a 6,000sqft guesthouse. How many motherfrickers do you even know that can't stay in a 30k foot house that you need 6k more to hold them all? Horse people are weird...

About 1000 sq ft with good insulation and no cell service.

And a couple hundred acres. Had to add that.


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[centurian]

I just had one that said they were on a budget, I consulted with them on everything and presented the options all the way through. He doubled the size of the deck, chose the most expensive composite decking line Timbertech made (their budget was for KDAT decking) went from a $25K deck to a $52K deck, hardwood over the LVT they originally chose, chose a downdraft and gas range that was $4k over the $4K budget I had for them, on and on. This didn't even take in the rot we uncovered, the encapsulation of the crawlspace, new front porch steps etc. They were adding things left and right, he got pissed at me, she got pissed at him, I got paid and they found a marriage counselor after being married for 40yrs. They hired a cheap guy to do the bathroom we uncovered rot in after I had designed it without telling me, called me last week to please come back and help them out, nope I'm done with that one. They ended up spending 2.5X what their budget was just with me. I see a lot of this be it new construction or renovations.

When you start making changes to the project it really escalates the cost. I do budget quotes (which is not a firm price) and firm quotes every day from $200 to 5M. It is difficult to write in all the exclusions to the quote but I try. Signed change orders cut down on the amount of changes and the customer can see what the cost addition is all along. I dont deal with the general public but i can really see how it can get out of control. I do have to counsel the wife when she says why cant we do this instead i tell her it is going to double the cost.