Tips for choosing best contractor

Be it home renovation or building your new home, you are always in a dilemma of finding a best contractor. Home building is an experience where you will have to manage around 25 subcontractors. And most of the people build only one house or renovate a house for only a limited number of times in their life. It’s always out of your guts to handle 25 subcontractors, select the material yourselves, have the construction sites supervised all alone.

For these reasons, you have to choose a right contractor to do a construction or a renovation job for you. We give you some of the important tips so that you choose your best contractor without any trouble.  

Getting the estimate from Contractors

After you plan the renovation and construction works, you have to get your designs and estimates and make a comparison. It’s always a better idea to choose from more than two contractors. Your contractor will make a visit to your house or site and give you the overview of design and construction and itemized estimate. If any of the contractors give you exceptionally high estimate, make sure you get a justification as for why the estimate is so large.

Make sure the contractor is experienced contractor

You have to find out the relevant experience of the contractor. The best contractor will make sure he will carry a few testimonial photos with him while giving his statement about the work you are demanding. You have to make sure that the contractor has good skills in the renovation or construction technology you are about to use. For example, the techniques used in bathroom renovation may not come handy in kitchen. The technology of building a reinforced concrete building and a steel structure building is entirely different. You have to make sure the contractor is relevantly experienced.

Check online reviews

Most of the contractors have themselves listed in Google Business these days. Most of the contractors also have social media pages where they share their day to day activities. Previous clients of the contractor should have submitted reviews about the contractor. Make sure that the contractor has a large number of positive reviews and low number of negative reviews.

Take note of the communication skill of the contractor

The communication skill of the contractor will matter a lot in your deal. Take a note whether your contractor states his offer in a passive voice or active voice. Is the contractor persuasive or assertive? Does the contractor try to convince you by manipulating some of the generally known facts in the industry? Does the contractor put forward reasons such as price hikes for justifying abnormal estimates? These are the question you have to resolve in your mind and take a deep note while you listen to your contractor. You have to listen cautiously to every contractor before you make a decision to award your contractor with your home contract.

Award Received by the contractor

Some contractors might have received an award or an honor for completing the job on time or doing the work efficiently. If you get to work with such a contractor, it’s an easy construction work for you. You will have your job done beautifully and pay less as compared to other contractors in your town.

Looking for job sites of the contractor

If your contractor works locally, make sure you visit some of the job sites of the contractor. You will find subcontractors. You can talk to them and check their background. You can also check the efficiency and accuracy in their works. You can ask your contractor whether they know about the background of their subcontractors well. You can ask the subcontractors about how often the contractor looks after their works and help them solve their problems in the site.

Find out whether the contractor is licensed and Insured

A contractor following construction safety rules is always ideal for your construction work. While awarding contract, make sure that your contractor has taken license from relevant agencies. Insurance of the site workers is always essential. In case the site workers are not insured, you and the contractor may have to pay hefty fine to the authorities and to the workers if the workers meets an accident during the course of his work.

If you follow all these steps before awarding contract to your local contractors, you will still end up with a satisfying result. You may also want to read our articles local contractors vs construction company for finding out why are the merits and demerits of awarding the contract to local contractors and a construction company.