Good Houses
How it works
Good Houses gives you the numbers before you commit to anything: what the work costs, what it adds, and what other people paid for the same job. Here is what each part of the site does.
Calculators
Answer a few questions about the job you have in mind and get a cost range for where you live, not a national average. The figures behind them are maintained by hand and reviewed on a schedule, and each calculator tells you what the price includes, what it leaves out, and what to do with the result.
Real costs
Prices submitted by homeowners who have had the work done, checked before they appear. Each one records what they paid, what the price covered, what they gave up, and what they would do differently. This is the part of the site that exists nowhere else.
Area pages
Local prices, the neighbourhoods within an area, what adds value there and what buyers are asking for this year, alongside the real costs submitted nearby.
Quotes
What each type of work involves, the questions worth asking before you commit, and what makes a quote suspect. When you are ready, request quotes from companies and traders we check by hand.
Ideas and Value
Articles on the decisions a number cannot make for you: which jobs are worth doing, in what order, and what they are like to live through.
Use the site first, then go and get quotes knowing what the figure should look like.
Good Houses
Know what's possible. Know what it costs.