About Project Cost Range
Every home project starts with the same question: what will this cost? A straight answer is hard to find. Contractors' quotes are far apart, search results are vague, and "it depends" isn't a budget. Project Cost Range gives you the real number before you call anyone: the low end, the high end and what most people pay.
Who's behind it
Project Cost Range is built and edited by Mario Bailey. I'm not a contractor, and I won't pretend to be. I read the cost reports, build each range and put my name on it. When a guide says a new roof costs $7,000 to $18,000, I'm responsible for that number. If it doesn't match a real quote you got, tell me and I'll fix it.
What we do
We publish cost guides for 100 home projects, such as roofs, kitchens, solar, and heating and cooling. Each guide shows the low and high price, the U.S. average, where the money goes and what pushes a quote up or down. There's nothing to sign up for, and no form on our pages asks for your contact details.
How we estimate costs
For every guide, we build a price range. Then we check it against current published prices from well-known industry sources, including:
- Sites that match homeowners with contractors, such as Angi and HomeGuide.
- Consumer and trade publications, such as This Old House and NerdWallet.
- Sites that focus on one kind of project, such as EnergySage for solar and energy.
- National cost reports, and data on what workers are paid in each part of the U.S.
Each guide lists the sources we checked at the bottom of the page and shows when it was last updated. We give ranges, not single numbers, because real prices fall in a range. We look at guides again as material and labor prices change.
Our independence
We are not a contractor or a lender, and we never sell your information. The site makes money from ads. Where a guide links to a quote service such as Angi, the link is sponsored and labeled. Neither one changes the prices we publish. A partner pays the same whether a bid comes in high or low. That is why our numbers stay straight.
Our sister site
The permit rules in our guides come from Permit Notebook, our sister site. It checks building permit rules against official city and county websites.
An important note
The prices on this site are estimates to help you budget and learn what things cost. They are not a quote, an appraisal or a promise of price. Before you start any project, get two or three written quotes from licensed local contractors.
Have a question or a correction? Get in touch. If we got a number wrong, we want to fix it.