Our Job Managers…or lead carpenters…are in charge while we work in your home. They schedule material deliveries and subcontractors and review details with you as the job progresses. Your Remodeling Consultant will meet with you weekly or biweekly, or whenever a change in the design or pricing is contemplated, but your Job Manager will be at your home daily.

One key benefit McAdams offers is our loyal subcontract group. Many of our subs have been doing work in our customers’ homes for over 10 years and some for over 20. They appreciate our well organized, clean jobsites and the carpenters’ availability to help solve the inevitable problems that come up in any construction activity. And we pay their bills on a weekly basis to make sure they keep us high on their scheduling priority. Here again, your Job Manager will handle all subcontractor coordination, and their work will be done during normal business hours Monday thru Friday unless permission is obtained in advance.

You can see more about project management from first meeting to final walk thru and our 2 year warranty under “What to expect”

Contracts

The vast majority of our work is done on Fixed Price Contracts. A typical contract includes specification by make and model of products and/or dollar allowances for items yet to be selected. If there is any change in floor plan or cabinet layout there will be a plan with notes to clarify what is to be done and by whom. Our goal is to keep you well informed so that there are no surprises during the entire process.

Regardless how well we plan, there will be changes during construction. Some of these are simple accounting matters, such as resolving allowances when your plumbing fixtures are selected and priced. Then there are the “bright idea” changes! Suppose you are having new gutters on the back of the house as part of the project…and you ask for pricing on doing the front ones at the same time. This is a relatively simple change for McAdams to implement at reasonable cost to you.

As the project proceeds, the “bright ideas” (a new door to the patio through a wall that was just drywalled and painted) become more time consuming and more costly. Whatever the motivation, changes to our contract must be documented for our mutual benefit and protection. In a perfect world there would be no changes in the work without a change order signed in advance. Lets work together to try to make this part of the world perfect!

Project Timelines

Remodeling contractors are infamous for terrible scheduling … but at McAdams Builders we try to overcome the stereotype. You will appreciate being shown our schedule and kept informed about the order of operations and affect on project timeline. We understand that our presence in your home is an intrusion and the only way for us to make you truly happy is to finish our work and move on to another job!