Home Repair and Estimates
When you are getting any type of home repair and are dealing with a contractor it is very important to set the rules down. One of those rules is that they provide a written estimate on the work that you are having done.
You want this for many reasons, an estimate has a spot on the bottom of it authorizing the company to go ahead and do the work. This is now a contract and both parties have to abide by it. Basically, the contractor has to complete the work that is estimated but they have to do it within the estimate.
If a contractor gives a homeowner an estimate of say an estimate of
$ 2000 for a window replacement and when the job is complete the final actual cost of the window replacement come to $ 2800. Now the homeowner is upset and refuses to pay you because you went above and beyond what the estimate said.
Which in any normal circumstance is ok only if you put the additional cost in writing and make sure the homeowner sees it and agrees. That way a situation like this won’t happen. Now you would want your money and if the homeowner refuses to pay you can either eat the money, which a contractor rarely does, or take the homeowner to court.
Now you have to spend money on court costs and time off from work to go to court. Save yourself the aggravation. Put everything in writing and have the homeowner agree to it ahead of time.
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