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Hiring and Managing Your Home Repair Contractor

  • Perla Irish
  • January 17, 2022
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  1. How to Hire a Good Contractor
  2. Tips to Effectively Managing Your Home Repair Contractor
    1. The Scope of Work
    2. The Contractor Should Have Allowances in Their Bids

As a homeowner, you have major responsibilities, some of which are pretty unique. For this reason, you may DIY on particular projects, but for other projects, you’ll find it necessary to consult help from a home repair contractor. What’s more, everyone encounters a broken object in their home at some point and has to hire someone to fix it.

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Hiring and Managing Your Home Repair Contractor

A home repair contractor can help you with everything concerning home improvement. If you’re looking to fix minor projects, a subcontractor is your go-to, but you need a general contractor like Good Life Construction Inc for significant projects.

A general contractor (builder) is a company handling major renovation projects. Once you hire them, they are responsible for coordinating the entire project. For instance, they may employ subcontractors from different specialties to work on the task at hand.

How to Hire a Good Contractor

In prospect, this can be tough to deal with, but it’s pretty straightforward. To guarantee the contractor you choose is the right one, choose early, then when the need arises, contact them.

This is logical in the essence that you don’t have much time to navigate various contractor lists during emergencies, let alone find someone that’s fair and good at their job. It gets worse if you neglect the interview stage and blindly select someone from the yellow pages.

You can select the right contractor using references from friends and family. Recommendations from realtors are also a good start, given that you trust them. In addition, other online tools like HomeAdvisor provide free real-time reviews on different contractors.


Read Also:

  • These Urgent Home Repairs Should Demand Your Immediate Attention
  • Five Home Repair Companies You Should Have on Speed Dial
  • 5 Home Repair Jobs You Should Leave to the Professionals
  • 4 Home Repair Projects You Can Attempt on Your Own

After drafting a list of potential contractors, schedule in-person interviews and feel whether you have ‘chemistry’ or assess their professionalism. Besides their basic competency, look for courtesy, ability to communicate, respect, and punctuality in their character. And regardless of their level of expertise, don’t hire someone if they fail in these areas.

Experts also direct homeowners to observe whether their prospective contractor exhibits signs of substance abuse, especially alcohol ad marijuana. Avoid them altogether once you suspect that they are subject to such activities.

Here are important things you should factor in when looking for potential contractors.

  • The best are licensed but with zero records of past clients’ complaints or disciplinary action against them. (Reject if they exhibit records of action and complaints against them in the last three years).
  • Should at least have a certificate of Contractors Insurance, especially the Workman’s Compensation and General Liability. (this is best). It’s also good if they have a general liability certificate. But if they lack insurance, reject them.
  • Lastly, check for their business stability by finding out if they have business addresses or a physical business office. It’s also allowable for them to have an answering service or home office but reject them if they lack all of the above.

Tips to Effectively Managing Your Home Repair Contractor

You’ve hired a contractor on your premises. How are you going to manage them effectively? Whether you are dealing with a minor, insignificant home repair or solid renovation project, you should know how to manage your contractor.

  • The Scope of Work

As the words suggest, the scope of work outlines what the contractor will be covering in your project. For your case, it should cover whatever you need to be completed. It should also address preparatory works, the safety of surrounding areas, and cleanup.

Contractors will base their bid estimate on the scope of their job. You can also evaluate this bid and make proper adjustments based on a similar scope.

Regardless of who you want to hire (painters, landscapers, plumbers, roofers), watch out for specific factors. For example, plumbers use a ‘per foot’ basis when pricing their services, while some offer a fixed estimate.

On a second example, landscapers should adhere fully to the scope of their work. Make sure they develop high-precision holes that fully hold the root balls of your trees and your shrubs. They should also guarantee the survival of the plant for a certain period.

  • The Contractor Should Have Allowances in Their Bids

Factors included in your bid – like transportation and material quantity– are subject to change as the project progresses. For this case, your contractors should have room for assumptions or make certain allowances when drafting it.

For the same reason, they should also clarify every exclusion. Before the project commences, carefully review every inclusions and exclusion, and follow up with polite questions for clarification. This approach reduces the likelihood of most things developing into a change order.

What’s more, exclusions and assumptions help you successfully alternate between oranges and apples while evaluating bids among contractors.

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