A few questions for anyone who's renovated or is about to

hello all, I’m a student doing a survey for an assignment

If you’ve renovated an existing place or are about to, i would greatly appreciate a few minutes

Answer whatever ones you feel like, even one or two is helps

- Have you renovated an existing home in Australia, or are you planning to? Roughly what stage are you at?

- When you got quotes from builders or trades, how confident were you that you understood exactly what was included and excluded?

- Did it end up costing more than you expected? If so, roughly how much more, and what caused it?

- Before you signed anything, where did you go for advice on scope, cost or what to watch out for? (friends/family, the builder, an architect, forums, YouTube, nobody)

- What was the most confusing or stressful part of the process?

- If someone independent, not a builder, wrote you a scope of works, went through your quotes against it and gave you a realistic budget before you committed, would you have used that? Why or why not?

- What would you expect to pay for something like that? (Nothing, Under $300, $300-600, $600-900, $900+)

- Anything you wish you’d known before you started?

Cheers