Budget-Savvy Remodels: Get Your Estimate & Understand the Construction Project Process

Understand Your Residential or Commercial Project

Project Proposal Process

ASI Renovations offers free consultations, phone calls, and/or meetings at the location. We will perform about 45 minutes of questions and answers.

 

We will provide free estimates and proposals for simple projects with a few assemblies or pieces of work. Simple projects include drywalling a room, a new roof, painting a room or two, exterior painting, or a piece of masonry.

 

We charge depending on the effort required to do the estimate for more complicated projects. Complicated projects include bathroom, basement, and kitchen remodels, multiple repairs and improvements, finishing an unfinished space, and so on. These prices are between $60 and $200 on average.

 

(*Estimates usually cost $150 to $1000, according to Angie's List.

 

We are experts in the field and our lead estimator and project management professional (PMI, PMP) has about 1,000 hours of training and education in this area and has performed about 4,000 estimates spanning 26 years.

 

You can also use the estimate to counter another contractor's price for better overall value or negotiate with your insurance company. It is both a budget and a proposal.

The Proposal Process Breakdown 

  • Project Inputs Include:

    • The Why: We think about your strategic business case/mission/vision and your need to satisfy.
    • The What: In our initial meeting, we will work to value engineering the scope of work needed to achieve your goal.
    • Logistics: Take pictures and measurements and view the location.
    • Personal Preferences: We interview you to distill your project into its most essential features and make an effort to identify the best value for you.
    • Payment: You hand in a check, cash, PayPal, Zelle, Venmo, Cash-App, and Square Cash upon the end of our meeting.

Project Outputs Include:

Time Frame: We offer a quick turnaround for your project proposal. Free estimates are 1 to 2 weeks, and paid estimates are about 4 days.

Scope & Responsibilities: We outline the project's basic scope, including who's responsible for each aspect of the work. A certain amount of design work goes into these; thus, we are, in part, designing your project with you.

Budget: We will include a project budget with line-item pricing showing tasks and costs with effort hours in sequence.

Contract: We will include a contract showing payment terms, terms and conditions, exclusions of what is out of project scope, and identification of permits and municipal requirements to adhere to.

Dates: We will include start and completion dates.

Risk Management: We will share a short risk management plan that will help lower the project liability.

Terms: Payment terms will be specified - milestones, % complete on schedule of values, or weekly cash outlay.

Costs: We define costs, including labor, materials, and expenses incurred for municipal permits that must be secured.

Freedom of use: You can implement all these expert write-ups regardless of whom you choose for the work. This is for you to use as you choose.

Constructability

Constructability (or buildability) is a technique to review construction processes from start to finish during the pre-construction phase. It identifies obstacles before a project is built to reduce or prevent errors, delays, and cost overruns. Using experience and expert judgment in planning, design, procurement, and field operations to achieve overall project objectives.


Constructability defines the ease and efficiency of remodeling spaces. The more constructible a structure is, the more economical it will be. ASI Renovations charges $95 per hour for this service.

Typical Budget Ranges

Below are some pricing models. These prices help you determine if you should pick up the phone. Prices are for typical work. Individual project and site circumstances alter these prices. These are rough order of magnitude prices. The actual price is determined after the job walk and estimation process. Rank ordered by expertise level. 

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Energy Consulting (DERs, DG, CHP, MG, BESS, PV, EE, PM, BA)
$80/hr.
Roof Repair
$80/hr.
Siding Repair
$80/hr.
General Time and Materials Repairs & Improvements
$70/hr.

Roofing

Asphalt Roof Over
$9/SF
Asphalt Tear Off & New Roof System
$12.00/SF
EPDM
$18/SF

Masonry

Stucco
$15/SF
Flatwork 4"
$18/SF
Flatwork 6"
$20/SF
Stairs
$500/EA
Chimney Cap Rebuild
$2,000
Tuck Pointing
$10/SF

Bathroom Remodels

Basic Facelift
$15,000-$20,000
Move Some Walls
$20,000-$30,000
Master Bath/Major
$25,000-$40,000
Put Bathroom Where There Was Not One Before
$18,000-$23,000

Basement Remodel

Basic/Standard

For anything special, we add on.

$60/sf

Decks & Outdoor Stairways
$45-$65 sf
Electrical
$120 per Box
Vinyl, PVC, Aluminum Double Hung Window install
$650/EA

*We can do many other things, but due to demand volume, we are trying to stick with the basics / do more or less.


 ** We invoice 80% payment upfront for projects executed/billed during the holiday season (1/15/xx to 1/15/xx)

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