How to read a quote, compare builders properly, and avoid the traps in a building contract.
The gap between the cheapest quote and the best quote is almost never about price — it is about what has been included, excluded, and left deliberately vague. Homeowners lose more money to poorly written quotes and provisional sums than to any other single cause.
This topic covers reading and comparing quotes line by line, verifying licences and insurance, the standard contract forms used in each state, and the questions worth asking before anyone starts.