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Big bathroom remodel needed. Should I go with Home Depot, Lowes, or try to find & choose my own contractor? Help please!
I personally would never use Home Depot, or Lowes for a project like this. They just sub-contract to local people. The issue is that you have no control over who actually comes to do the work.
There is certainly something to be said for having a large company to back the work, but from my (admittedly small number of) data points, I find that in general, the bottom of the barrel tend to work for my local Big Box stores.
Find someone who has had similar work done and get a recommendation from them.
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I just got a quote for two full bath renovations. The all-in cost estimate (labor, building materials, and finishing materials like vanity and lighting) was about $51K. So about $25.5K/bathroom. I’m new to this stuff, but that seems a little high. FYI, we are not going for high-end stuff. Just updating some mid-2000s bathrooms.
Unfortunately, the only other quote I got was a labor only quote for the same two bathrooms, and that came in at about $17K total ($8.5K/bathroom).
Does the second quote seem more “normal”, or will there really be $34K in building materials and finishing materials to add on to the second, labor-only quote?
I have had a heck of a time getting quotes. One contractor came out, took measurements, and a month later told me they couldn’t take the job. No other contractors have replied to my messages, and I have contact around 10-12. This why I only have two quotes.
I live in the Midwest in a medium COL area, if that matters.
Update after bathroom renovations have been completed: I ended up going with the contractor with a labor-only quote of $17K. Total cost ended up at about $35K for the two bathrooms. Really happy with it.