While conducting our estimates yesterday I noticed two very different approaches taking place: mine and my partners. Perhaps this is stylistic differences or perhaps there is a wrong way and a right way to do this (or should I say one way and a better way?). Anyone who wants to weigh in on this from experience, please do!
After the first contractor I had a good idea of what should be pointed out to the next guy. My thought was to show him the work we wanted done and move on quickly. Thus the exterior of the house took me 5-10 minutes to go over with the 2nd contractor since RS was inside finishing with the 1st. I told him we wanted to repour the driveway, remove three trees, replace the vinyl siding, remove the awnings, take out the concrete stairs and replace with treated wood deck, change the doors, put a new roof on the garage and we were done.
My partner, on the other hand, caught up with us before we made it inside and re-toured the property, slowly walking the perimeter, asking for suggestions, pointing to one thing and another; asking the contractors opinion and vision casting for what we could do with different aspects of the home.
My feeling was we should know what we want, tell the contractor and be done with it; his/her only input should be if there was some glaring flaw in our plan. My partner, however, is taking the “let’s create this together” route, but that’s not really their job, or is it? Any thoughts?
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