by American Classic Construction | Oct 16, 2018 | American Classic Construction, Building, Construction, Construction News, Contractor, Fire Damage, Home Remodel, New Construction, Water Damage, Window Replacement |
Our readers might suspect that our answer (as we are General Contractors) would always be yes. Be surprised. We believe that there are many projects that you can easily serve as your own General Contractor while there are others for which trying to be the General...
by American Classic Construction | Oct 2, 2018 | American Classic Construction, Building, Construction, Construction News, Contractor, Fire Damage, Home Remodel, New Construction, Water Damage, Window Replacement |
Regardless of which method you select to have plans produced, the process of finding and choosing someone to do plans is much the same as finding the contractor that we discuss in a later chapter. In general, always use your trusted professional (if you have one),...
by American Classic Construction | Sep 18, 2018 | American Classic Construction, Building, Construction, Construction News, Contractor, Fire Damage, Home Remodel, New Construction, Window Replacement |
Regardless of the difficulty factor, we suggest not making any restrictions on the project details based on cost considerations, space concerns or even building codes. We suggest imposing these restrictions later as we have found that clients sometimes restrict the...
by American Classic Construction | Sep 4, 2018 | American Classic Construction, Building, Construction, Construction News, Contractor, Fire Damage, Home Remodel, New Construction, Water Damage, Window Replacement |
You should advise the winning contractor that you intend to have them do the work after you have reviewed their contract. Many clients skip this all important step and think that the proposal they have been evaluating is the contract. In most cases this should not...
by American Classic Construction | Aug 21, 2018 | American Classic Construction, Building, Construction, Construction News, Contractor, Fire Damage, Home Remodel, New Construction, Water Damage, Window Replacement |
We suggest a better method of getting the competitive bidding process to yield the lowest fair bid is to first advise each contractor that you are considering that they are amongst the final contractors for the project. We suggest limiting this group of finalists to...
by American Classic Construction | Aug 7, 2018 | American Classic Construction, Building, Construction, Construction News, Contractor, Fire Damage, Home Remodel, New Construction, Water Damage, Window Replacement |
We caution against trying to play one contractor off against another. This would be the process of providing one contractor with the lower bid of their competitor (assuming the scope is equal) to see if they will lower their bid. While competitive bidding is...
