We moved to Ottawa from Toronto about a month ago. We bought a house, no wait my husband bought a house. Basically I trusted him to buy a house without me seeing it. What was I thinking? The house is a disaster and need works, a lot of works! So we started from the outside as the renovator for the inside didn’t have time until December. We were so lucky to find Andre (the roof guy). There was an ugly arch shape in front of the house that we needed to remove, well I needed it to be removed, and it was so ugly that I could not stand it. First quote to remove it was 10K, that was a lot of money no way that my husband spend this much money just for the look of the house and of course for me not liking it. Second quote was even worse 15K- 20K. I almost gave up thinking that I had to see that ugly shape every day, and then Andre came to the scene and gave me the amazing, unbelievable prices of $3,500. I couldn’t resist this price neither my husband, even though he disagreed on this project from the beginning. Anyway the job is done and thanks to Andre our house looks great. Already three of my neighbors congraluted me for the job well done and thought that the house look great. Wish I’d taken before and after pictures of the house.
Never give up hope, always ask different companies for quotes. There are still companies out there that they give you reasonable prices, prices that you can afford.
Hopefully we will be lucky for the inside renovation as well and can get things done with reasonable prices.
Oh, I forgot to mention that when I asked Rodean for his opinion about the new look of the house; he said that he doesn't like it and the old look was much better. As my husband, he thinks that the front of the house now looks like the back of the house. Anyway, I'm happy with the result, so my neighbors. Too bad that Rodean and my husband didn't like it, but I'm sure they will get use to it.
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