How Do You Choose the Right Contractor?Ask how they price, who will be at your house, what their insurance covers and how much they want up front. These guides answer those questions about us and give you questions to ask any contractor.Start with what “licensed and insured” actually means and who will be at your house.
Who will be at my house during the work, who supervises it, how long those crews have been with us, and who you call when something is wrong.
What to do if the defective siding on your house is a known product failure: what warranties cover, what they don’t, and where claims stall.
How to plan a remodel before a contractor is involved: what to decide, what to measure and what to find out, so your first call is a real one.
What happens after you call a contractor, start to finish: the discovery call, the measure, the proposal and the meeting on your first morning.
We’re usually $8,000 to $15,000 more than the guy with a truck and a few helpers. Sometimes more than that.
Against another James Hardie Alliance contractor, we’re usually within $3,000 to $5,000 — and that gap is almost never markup. It’s scope. Somebody’s proposal includes something the other one doesn’t, and you can’t see it from the outside.
This post is about siding because that’s where I’ve got the clearest numbers. But the reasoning is identical on a roof, a deck, windows, cabinets, flooring, an addition. It’s the same conversation with different products in it.
What a full exterior renovation cost looks like when siding, roofing, windows and gutters happen together, and why doing it at once costs less.
How do you know you’re hiring the right siding contractor? The checks you can run yourself, including the two-minute one most homeowners never think to do.
How we measure your house with HOVER from photographs you can take yourself in ten minutes — how to take them, when it doesn’t work, and what a model can’t tell us.
How much should a contractor ask for up front? Our three different payment schedules in full, what a deposit actually buys, and when to treat one as a red flag.
What licensed and insured really means for a Georgia contractor, why no roofing or siding license exists, and the 10-minute insurance check anyone can run.
