Consulting for homeowners, at every stage of a project

The starting point for most homeowners. You describe the project you have in mind — a kitchen, a basement, a full renovation, an extension — and the conversation turns it into something concrete: what the work realistically involves, what decisions come first, and what could complicate it.

It is the least expensive moment in a project to change your mind. A consultation at this stage often reshapes the scope, the sequence or the budget before a single contractor has been called.

Budgets fail for predictable reasons: the scope grows, the finishes were never priced, or the contingency was never there. Cost guidance builds a planning range around your specific project — its size, its condition, its finish level and its constraints.

The point is not to predict a final invoice. It is to give you a defensible range to plan against, so that the quotes you receive later can be judged against something instead of against nothing.

You send the quote as you received it — PDF, photo or scan. It is read in detail: what work is described, how the pricing is built, which materials are specified, what is covered by an allowance, and what has been explicitly or silently excluded.

You receive a plain-language summary of what the document actually commits the contractor to, along with the specific questions worth putting in writing before you sign anything.

Contractors write quotes their own way. One itemizes twelve lines, another writes three paragraphs, a third quotes a lump sum. Comparing the totals of documents that describe different work is the most common and most expensive mistake in a renovation.

Quote comparison normalizes the documents against a single scope, shows where they diverge, and makes the real difference visible — which is almost never simply the bottom line.

Inconsistent quotes usually start with an inconsistent request. This service helps you write down the scope precisely — what is included, what is excluded, which materials, which finish level — so that everyone you ask is pricing the same project.

Projet GH also provides context on how work of this type is generally priced in the current Quebec market, so the numbers you receive can be read against something. Projet GH does not employ, represent, recommend or vet contractors, and makes no commitment as to their availability, licensing, pricing, quality or performance.

Renovations rarely go wrong at the drilling stage. They go wrong when a decision arrives late — a fixture chosen after the plumbing is closed, a permit started after the crew is booked, a material ordered after the installer is on site.

Planning maps the sequence of your project: what has to be decided when, what depends on what, and where the realistic pressure points are on your timeline.

Sometimes the question is narrow and specific: this change order seems high; this quote came back much lower than the others; the scope on site no longer matches the one on paper. A second opinion addresses that single question directly.

The review is independent and factual. It describes what the documents say, what appears inconsistent and what you may want to clarify — without turning a working relationship with your contractor into a confrontation.