We only give free estimates for a few prequalified cases.
1. A past customer or referral that is a guaranteed job, they just want a price first to see how much they can do.
2. Generator sales
3. Large projects that we qualify over the phone before hand or we turn the job down without looking.
Everyone else pays a fee or maybe gets a ballpark on the phone if we feel comfortable that the job is standard enough.
Very few people in our area turn down our charge for the quote, which is deducted if we do the work. We get 90% of these jobs when we charge for the estimate, it definitely prequalifies the customer as someone not interested in cheap only.
