The Design-Build method (DB) gives you, the owner, a single point of contact for the design, planning, permitting and execution of your project.  Along with our subcontractors, vendors and partners, we will first PLAN your project down to the smallest detail. 

 

Too often construction projects, and especially remodels, go over budget and over schedule.  This is because the group (client and contractor) is planning as the go.  This inevitably adds time and cost to your project.  Our approach to Design-Build takes a little more time at the beginning but has fewer changes that increase cost and schedule later.  

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Every project needs a plan.  The smallest bathroom remodel will have dozens of design elements (paint color, wall texture, tile type, grout color, light fixture and on and on).  Without a plan the contractor will have to stop work and get a response from a client before they can proceed.  

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At Skadi Design-Build we do all of our planning upfront.  The benefits are multi-fold.  We can build more quickly and efficiently when we know exactly what needs to be done.  This saves us time and therefore you money.  Also, we can give an extremely accurate price estimate because we know all the details at the time of the bid.  We can also give a more accurate schedule because all finish selections are known before construction starts and can be ordered early.  This eliminates finding out the entry door you picked out takes 8 weeks to ship when it was supposed to be installed next week.  

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Here is a small but telling example of why having a plan is so important regardless of the size of the job:

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A lack of a complete plan can really add time and cost to a project while reducing quality.  Consider the importance of knowing what mirror will go in a bathroom before framing starts.  This seems unnecessary; the bathroom mirror is maybe the very last thing installed in a bathroom and framing is the first activity. 

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Electrical boxes for things like outlets have to be attached to a framing member; the electrician will put an outlet for the bathroom sink area attached to a framing stud off to the side of the sink.  If you choose a wide mirror it may cover the outlet.  If we waited until the mirror needed to be installed to choose the mirror now we must cut into finished, painted drywall to move an outlet box, leaving behind a drywall patch that will never truly blend in.  This will cost several hundred dollars and require at least 3 extra days (one for the electrical to move the outlet, 1 for the drywaller to patch the hole and 1 for the painter to paint the patch).  The cost would have been incidental had the outlet been placed for the selected mirror initially.  There are countless examples like this one when building or remodeling a home.  It is all too easy to jump into construction.  After all, you want to see progress on your project and your contractor wants to start acquiring billable hours but the project will suffer without a plan.