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CONSULTATIONS & ADVICE:
BD Home offers a no obligation consultation service for those clients contemplating a new house or renovation or buying a property and just wanting to know its future potential. No obligation, fully insured and guaranteed “fit for purpose”.
There are now THREE options for consultations with BD Home.
- Free phone call – the first step in determining if we are right for your project.
- Free evaluation – we can set up a free zoom meeting for a 20-30 minute free evaluation of our services. This is usually enough to provide a rough estimate of fees, especially if you know what you want. Please note that this is not a full consultation, but is in line with market competitors, and any service limitations will be clearly disclosed at the time of the meeting.
- Full consultation. A full consultation involves in-depth behind the scenes investigation and research and is followed up with a full report and detailed quotation document and sometimes a quick sketch or floor plan layout. Our senior designer will come to your property and cover a wide range of topics, give you specific honest advice and follow up with a written confirmation and extensive quotation and report documents. We allocate up to 2 hours on site which is what you are paying for. And in many cases, we spend longer to make sure you get all of the information needed to make an informed decision.
- Free phone call – the first step in determining if we are right for your project.
- Free evaluation – we can set up a free zoom meeting for a 20-30 minute free evaluation of our services. This is usually enough to provide a rough estimate of fees, especially if you know what you want. Please note that this is not a full consultation, but is in line with market competitors, and any service limitations will be clearly disclosed at the time of the meeting.
- Full consultation. A full consultation involves in-depth behind the scenes investigation and research and is followed up with a full report and detailed quotation document and sometimes a quick sketch or floor plan layout. Our senior designer will come to your property and cover a wide range of topics, give you specific honest advice and follow up with a written confirmation and extensive quotation and report documents. We allocate up to 2 hours on site which is what you are paying for. And in many cases, we spend longer to make sure you get all of the information needed to make an informed decision.
WHY SHOULD YOU PAY FOR QUALITY DESIGN ADVICE?
“Nothing is truly free in today’s society, you end up paying for it somewhere in the process”
In some industries it’s common practice to provide free quotes or estimates, however, what you should expect from your building designer or architect is a lot more than just a free estimate for drafting of plans. You should expect them to provide sound long term advice about the value and worth of your property and spend the time helping you through the various design options.
If you are paying for the consultation process, it becomes independent and disconnected from the design and drafting process. This allows the designer to provide independent advice, and sometimes the right advice means doing something else or nothing at all. Why pay for expensive plans only to find out you can’t afford it, or worse, build an extension that over-capitalizes your investment? Sometimes it’s worth paying a few hundred before you start so you don’t lose hundreds of thousands of dollars later??
Remember, for most people, the family home is the single biggest investment in their lifetime, and if they get it wrong, it can cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars in resale value?
Is it really worth it to rely on free or cheap advice? It’s also worth remembering that many cheap designers do not have professional indemnity insurance, further reducing the value of their service.
“Nothing is truly free in today’s society, you end up paying for it somewhere in the process”
In some industries it’s common practice to provide free quotes or estimates, however, what you should expect from your building designer or architect is a lot more than just a free estimate for drafting of plans. You should expect them to provide sound long term advice about the value and worth of your property and spend the time helping you through the various design options.
If you are paying for the consultation process, it becomes independent and disconnected from the design and drafting process. This allows the designer to provide independent advice, and sometimes the right advice means doing something else or nothing at all. Why pay for expensive plans only to find out you can’t afford it, or worse, build an extension that over-capitalizes your investment? Sometimes it’s worth paying a few hundred before you start so you don’t lose hundreds of thousands of dollars later??
Remember, for most people, the family home is the single biggest investment in their lifetime, and if they get it wrong, it can cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars in resale value?
Is it really worth it to rely on free or cheap advice? It’s also worth remembering that many cheap designers do not have professional indemnity insurance, further reducing the value of their service.
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