Amber means silence
Vance never mentions permits or dumpsters. Not excluded — unmentioned. Click the marker to see what the other two priced for the same scope.
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Three bids on one house, $29,300 apart
1408 Sycamore St, Toledo, OH — whole-house rehab. This is the real comparison view, running the same code a paying customer gets. Scroll it, click the markers, open the questions.
The lowest of the three is $48,900. It is not the cheapest job.
Before you check the arithmetic: the three bids state $61,400, $48,900, and $78,200 on their cover pages — a spread of $29,300. The totals row below adds up each bid’s own line items instead, which is how Kowalski comes to $81,000. That $2,800 disagreement is the contractor’s, not ours, and it is flagged rather than smoothed over.
Delgado Construction
Vance Remodeling
Kowalski & Sons
| Scope | Delgado Construction | Vance Remodeling | Kowalski & Sons |
|---|---|---|---|
| Demolition | lowest | ||
| Plumbing | lowest | ||
| Electrical | lowest | ||
| HVAC | lowest | ||
| Drywall | lowest | ||
| Paint — interior | lowest | ||
| Flooring | lowest | ||
| Tile | lowest | ||
| Cabinets & countertops | lowest | ||
| Fixtures & appliances | lowest | ||
| Permits & fees | lowest | ||
| Dumpster & haul-away | lowest | ||
| General conditions | lowest | ||
| Items total | $61,400 | $48,900 | $81,000 |
Comparison by trade
Delgado Construction
Vance Remodeling
Kowalski & Sons
Demolition
- Delgado Construction
- Vance Remodeling
- lowest
- Kowalski & Sons
Plumbing
- Delgado Construction
- Vance Remodeling
- lowest
- Kowalski & Sons
Electrical
- Delgado Construction
- Vance Remodeling
- lowest
- Kowalski & Sons
HVAC
- Delgado Construction
- Vance Remodeling
- lowest
- Kowalski & Sons
Drywall
- Delgado Construction
- Vance Remodeling
- lowest
- Kowalski & Sons
Paint — interior
- Delgado Construction
- Vance Remodeling
- lowest
- Kowalski & Sons
Flooring
- Delgado Construction
- Vance Remodeling
- lowest
- Kowalski & Sons
Tile
- Delgado Construction
- Vance Remodeling
- lowest
- Kowalski & Sons
Cabinets & countertops
- Delgado Construction
- Vance Remodeling
- lowest
- Kowalski & Sons
Fixtures & appliances
- Delgado Construction
- lowest
- Vance Remodeling
- Kowalski & Sons
Permits & fees
- Delgado Construction
- lowest
- Vance Remodeling
- Kowalski & Sons
Dumpster & haul-away
- Delgado Construction
- lowest
- Vance Remodeling
- Kowalski & Sons
General conditions
- Delgado Construction
- Vance Remodeling
- lowest
- Kowalski & Sons
Items totals
- Delgado Construction
- $61,400
- Vance Remodeling
- $48,900
- Kowalski & Sons
- $81,000
Editing line items, marking a winner, and seeding a budget are turned off here — they change data, and this comparison belongs to nobody. Rough gauge from general knowledge — not local pricing data, and not an estimate for your job.
What to look at
Three things the table is telling you
If you only take one thing from this page: the cheapest total was cheapest because it left things out.
Grey means they told you
"Appliances by owner" is an exclusion. It costs you money too, but you know about it today rather than in week three. The table keeps the two apart deliberately.
Questions come from the gaps
Click a "questions" badge above the grid. Those are written against what that bid does and does not say, not from a generic checklist.
Now do it with your bids.
Upload the PDFs, snap a photo of the one on legal paper, paste the one that came by text. Two to five at a time.