Concept Check
$295One concept package, up to 15 pages
A written review and priority questions for your designer. Best for testing whether the concept is buildable, whether the scope is realistic, and where the disproportionate costs are hiding.
Drawing Reviews
Before it goes to permit, have it read from a builder's point of view.
From $295. The cheapest moment to change an expensive detail is before anybody prices it.
Why this matters
A set can be complete, approvable, and still expensive to build.
Details get drawn that no crew wants to frame. Materials get specified that cost more without performing better. Assemblies get called out that trigger a change order the moment real site conditions turn up.
Your designer's job is to produce a coordinated, permittable set, and that is a different job from mine. My job is to look at the same set and ask what it will cost you in the field, in RFIs, and in maintenance ten years from now.
The three reviews
Permit Set Review
From $495One set, up to 40 sheets
A structured comment schedule, the likely RFI and change order triggers, and questions for the designer of record. Best before permit submission or before the set goes out for tender.
Drawings and Quote Cross-Reference
From $895One set plus one quote, up to 60 pages
A coverage matrix showing what the price does and does not cover, plus contradictions, assumptions, and the questions to send back to both the contractor and the designer.
A real example
One project. Three rounds of comments.
Two semi-detached homes with basement secondary suites.
Reviewed before and during the early project decisions. A few of the items that came out of it:
- Two garage demolitions were quoted at more than $12,000. Reorganizing the crew and equipment brought that work in at roughly $8,000.
- The subfloor takeoff covered 244 sheets across the two units, where an alternate panel option represented roughly $2,440 in potential material savings, subject to the flooring requirements.
- Several drawing call-outs were identified as mislabelled, and were corrected before they reached the field.
These are items identified and proposed on one real project. Every project is different and no outcome is guaranteed.
Scope
What this is not
Constructability and completeness observations only. This is not code compliance certification, design approval, engineering, or a substitute for your designer or engineer of record. Larger or unusually complex sets are quoted separately.
Planning a suite, duplex, or severance?
If this drawing set is part of a garden suite, basement suite, duplex conversion, severance, or purpose-built rental, say so on the form. That is usually a longer conversation than a single review, and I would rather scope it properly than sell you the wrong thing.
Review my drawings
Send me the set.
Fill this in and I'll confirm which review fits, the price, and the turnaround before anything is charged.
Or call 519-729-3673 or email steve@renorescuehelp.ca.
Proof
Three quotes. Three different scopes.
A real quote review on a two-unit infill build in Hamilton.