At this point of time there were only a few motivations.
First, we need to settle our future house problem, well not a major one, but to cater for our need, solving the dog's woes, small garden, and perhaps a place we can have more space for better day to day enjoyment.
Perhaps an occasional blasting of movies through our budding Home Theater system, by engaging my own desire to DIY my very own system!
That leads to another issue I did not mention. I need a space and room for my DIY too.
So for once, we will just face the music and sing the song.
The following two months, we have engaged at least 5 renovators to come and have a look, with at least three gave us their thorough quotations and the breakdowns.
Those that have responded, I got to admit, exhibited great amount of professionalism in listening to our requirement, not to mention lots of patience to organise meetings, listening to our repetitive abeit layman statement, before coming up with their proposals.
We finally settle for one.
Why him ?
Firstly, he basically share our frequency. We can comfortably share with him our requirement, concerns, without much reservation.
Secondly, he is not perfect. But he admitted it. Thats what really make him difference. He will get his partner's opinion to come up with his own version of solution and share with us with humility and with a smile at all time. You may think that he does it because he wanted our business badly. Well perhaps. But we have encountered renovator which literally operate with an element of iron fist. You can smell it.
Thirdly, of course, his quotation is one of the most reasonable one. There will be plus and minuses no doubt. But for those subjective items, such as our shaky extension, no one actually know how bad the condition is until one dug up the soil. For those, he throw in the ceiling price, there will not be more than certain amount should thing goes bad.
So a decision has finally been made, and work finally begins.
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