Clarinda from Toronto

Finally I am in a stage to see the quotations of my renovation. When I started to plan our renovation last year I started to choose a kitchen company that referred me to a general contractor, but he never took the business seriously. Waited, waited, waited for several months...all we had was a drawing of our house.(Although we knew we had to apply for a permit regarding our project.) So I called Jay to help me out. I needed him to oversee our renovation process. First, he told me to make my "wish list"according to my drawing. Written statements have to be presented. He made a nice coloured draft scope of work and general instructions on scope for our house. And he gave me a lot of advised when I decided to change contractors to start my search all over. Although this work was expensive, it was well worth it. I chose one company to do the Phase 1 work which was only the design and a permit process work. Jay told me that I had to compare the quotations based on the same work, which is drawings stamped by the Engineer.( I lost my time again during this Phase 1 process because this company's sales person quite all of a sudden and didn't inform us for weeks and kitchen company was telling me that cabinets are ready...but I didn't have a contractor.) But finally with Jay's direction and advise, we came to the point to compare the prices of total renovations. If we didn't ask him, we would probably have all kinds of estimates or quotations based on only verbal, uncertain, forgetful promises based on inaccurate numbers from several companies. Jay educated me a lot for this process without any charges. When it comes to a renovations, there are so many technical things we don't know and I strongly recommend a person like Jay to contact. Renovation is not cheap, but investment to the good education will save a money in the end.