How to find a builder for a new home, renovation, or commercial project.
Getting a new home, renovation or a commercial build usually involves a significant investment and it’s good to know that you are investing your time and money with a builder who has a good reputation and can deliver quality consistently. Finding a good builder used to be quite hard to do before the invention of google reviews.
You want to see them all and make an informed decision.
One of the best ways back then was to get a builder recommended by a friend. While that still works, it’s now a lot easier and safer thanks to google reviews. Google captures reviews from a larger survey group rather than just one person – your friend, so it’s a better system. You can google something like ‘builders New Plymouth’ and you get a list of builders in New Plymouth, see below. However, it’s not all the builders it’s just the first three that Google recommends, you want to see them all and make an informed decision.
In the above image, you can hit the button that says “More businesses” and you will get to see the full list as per the below screenshot. Looking at the below image, you can make an assessment of which builder you want to use.
The number of reviews each business has is also relevant.
Obviously, 5 stars are best, but the number of reviews each business has is also relevant, i.e. if it’s five stars and only 1 review that doesn’t provide info to make the call. Generally, if a business has at least 10 reviews and only one dud review, there’s a 90% chance you will be ok using that company.
When I go out for dinner or takeaways or dinner I usually have a baseline of about 4.5. I think when you build a house or renovate it makes sense to go for the highest-rated builder that you can afford.
If you want to look at the individual reviews then follow the below instructions.
Once you’ve done that you can read the individual reviews. I always tend to read the best and the lowest-rated review.
One final point is that you can review the type of building services offered by the different builders, just by reading the description of the builder on their google listing. See below. It’s good to make sure you get someone who has extensive experience in commercial building if that’s what you building a new factory.
At the time of writing, at Profound we have 5 stars on google and 16 reviews, making us one of the highest-ranked builders in google and a super safe building partner for your next build or renovation.