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[quote=Anonymous]The one area I was not familiar with was how they put "allowances" into the contract. For instance, they put $1500 allowance for 2 exterior doors- when it came to time to select the doors from their vendor they were a little vague about what would fall under that allowance. We selected something and it came in significantly higher that what was "allowed". We reviewed our choice and came back with something within the price range. Other items that they put in allowances for where not what we liked and they were happy to work with us to get the best price available using their discounts so we could afford the items. It wasn't that they didn't tell us about these things - it was just I had no experience with them. As with most projects as you near the end there are items that if you want to add on its going to cost you above what was in the budget. So be aware that there while they stick to the estimated budget there are going to be "add-ons" through out the renovations. The example I am thinking about is they had allowances for interior doors - only on the rooms they worked on or modified - we wanted to have all the interior doors match so we asked them to order the extra doors (at their discount) but we then had to pay them extra money to install the doors since it was not in the original contract. I guess we probably could have added it up front but it wasn't something we really noticed until we saw how awful it looked to have 2 types of doors. [/quote]

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