Ok. Here goes with a general response topic that I think will be mainly for the renovators of this site but home builders etc are more than welcome to join in as well.
My scenario is this
You see a place an like it but you think a few improvements wont go astray so you say to yourself " a bit of renovation wont be that much eh?" (just like we are doing)
I'm interested to know how far over, under or spot on you were with the guesstimations.
1. You make your guess then you go get quotes from builders and/or suppliers
How close were you ?
2. You get the builders quote and decide to go ahead.
Did it go over or did it come under
3. Did individual areas (ie kitchen bathroom flooring etc) vary in final cost
Some more expensive, some cheaper?
4. How much cost overrun did you allow for wether in dollar terms or percentage terms?
I'm hoping I might be able to extract some humour as well as some idea how far out or spot on we can be as fallible human beings.
Cheers Roger an Caz