Home improvement budget: how to avoid being pitted?

With the rising price of home improvement building materials, many home improvement companies have started price adjustment plans. This means that the total price of home improvement may rise accordingly. There are many kinds of home improvement materials in the market, and different home improvement companies have different pricing methods in terms of basic construction fees and material fees, and the names of construction projects are also different. Therefore, consumers need more professional knowledge to interpret different budget books when consulting quotations from different home improvement companies.

Study the budget carefully.

Before signing a contract with a home improvement company, be sure to ask them to provide a detailed design plan and budget. When studying the budget book, you can invite experienced friends to study it carefully. A complete home improvement budget should include: project name, unit, quantity, unit price, total price, remarks, total direct cost, management fee and other necessary items, otherwise it may leave an opportunity for unscrupulous merchants.

Classified detailed budget items

The classification of home improvement budget items mainly includes classification by type of work and decoration content. For example, plumbers, carpenters, masons, bricklayers and other different types of work, as well as floor engineering, wall engineering, ceiling engineering, furniture engineering, hydropower engineering and other decoration content.

Beware of the common skills of home improvement companies

When making a budget, home improvement companies may adopt some common skills to improve profits. For example: project splitting, that is, splitting a project into several small projects, thus reducing the unit price but increasing the total price respectively; Cheat the engineering quantity, and get more profits by falsely reporting or underreporting the engineering quantity; And quote the price of auxiliary materials, and use the characteristics that consumers are familiar with the main materials but not with the price of auxiliary materials to improve the quotation.

Strictly check the budget

Some home improvement companies may set traps, resulting in a wide gap in quotations. Choosing a high-priced quotation may cost more, and choosing a low-priced quotation may eventually cost extra. Therefore, consumers must strictly control the budget when preparing for decoration. Before signing a contract with a home improvement company, be sure to ask them to provide a detailed design plan and budget.

Choose a reputable home improvement company

To sum up, consumers must be fully prepared before decoration, understand the market conditions and material prices, and choose a reputable home improvement company for cooperation. At the same time, it is necessary to read the terms of the contract carefully to ensure that all expenses and construction period are clearly defined to avoid disputes in the later period.