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[quote=Anonymous]Recently finished a larger project but this would no doubt work for this one... we used Archaeon Architects (Cabin John). They drew up detailed specs after lots of consultation with us, saying that should result in bids close to the estimate by letting bidders know exactly what's spec'd. We bid to 3 contractors, 2 of whom (both with 20+ yrs experience) were within 2% of the estimated cost. The third bid was absurdly high (20%+ so we dismissed it out of hand). Final cost was less than 5% over the contract price (due mostly to choices we made in progress). Having the architect spec the project and oversee construction was very useful IMO and kept things on course where needed, and also allowed some minor tweaks that wouldn't negatively affect the design/finished product. I'm confident either of the 2 contractors whose bids were in the ballpark would have done a good job. [/quote]
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