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Originally Posted by bogie
I don't want to put down any contractors, I would like to be a contractor. Changes are part of consruction. It's difficult for home owners to make decisions from drawings. Homeowners need to be informed of the costs attached to changes. If a contractor is organized enough to get costs related to changes in writing, they should be covered. I know, I know, easier said than done.
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Yeah, that's the thing. The base pricing should cover a typical level of minor changes. We all know that everything isn't going to be exactly as predicted, because these jobs are complicated. However, I shouldn't have to bear all of the risk for any changes, because I'm relying on the contractor to know enough to predict the risk of problems and account for it in his pricing. If there's something completely unexpected that gets uncovered, then we talk. But the contractor should know that XX percent of the job is going to have a glitch in it, and should price knowing that that will happen.