Whether you’re building a house, renovating a kitchen or fixing your plumbing, selecting not just a ‘good’ contractor, but the best commercial contractor is essential. In this post, I’m going to tell you what the 5 traits are that separate average contractors from the best and top contractors.
1. Listening Ears and Keen Eyes
The most important thing is for the contractor to know what you want. This means listening for ideas and come up with the vision of what you want for your home or office. Because every project is different from the last, a contractor who listens and asks questions is the most important when it comes to making your vision a reality. Once a contractor understands your vision, they can start pulling together materials to make your vison a reality. Contractors also have to be keen eyes and be able to read the market and get the best supplies for the job. They must be able to find the best products at the best price. They must be able to work in your price range and in your time frame as well.
2. Financial Backing
When finding a contractor, they must have a good financial backing and history. They must be able to be constant in your project and not slow down to a lack of money. It is important to find those who are dedicated to you and your project. You want the contractor to be there for you with their time, helping you make your vison a reality, but not side tracked by banking, credit, or insurance.
3. Full Pricing
When it comes to any building or remodeling project, you want to make sure you are paying for what you want. But you also must know that you will probably always ending up paying more than what you originally saw. You are not just paying for the flooring job and labor, but you are also paying for risk and life cycle costing.
4. Risk and Safety
You need to make sure your contractor is using procedures to test all your flooring plans. They should be able to identity issues so they will not be a problem in the future. Contractors should be able to minimize risk but also inform you on any test they perform and stick to strict guidelines during those tests. But all this said, they should also demonstrate and have a good safety record to their name or company. One should always make sure that their contractor has an Emergency Modification Rate (EMR) less than 1.0. The EMR shows how often workers compensation was filed against the contractor. One should also check the DART metric to see how much time the contractor has missed due to injuries. But you should always make sure that the contractor you hire is certified and trained properly.
5. Green Floors
It is very important that in today’s climate that you make sure the contractor is working with green environmentally friendly products. The green standards for projects can be easily found at the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC). You should also be looking for those contractors that are LEED Certified. LEED projects are usually the greenest.
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