Every change order agreed in writing, on their phone, before the work starts — so the last invoice is never the first time they see the number.
Eleven change orders, every one of them agreed to by somebody. The homeowner saw the total once — on the last invoice.
And this is where you hear it: “I never agreed to that.”
The same addition the figures above came off. Four of the eleven are marked; one of them is a credit, because work comes back off a job as well as going on.
Two screens, and the second one is the reason a contractor pays for this.
A change order is never in the total until they have agreed to it — and it chases them so you do not have to.
Photograph the change order you already wrote, or type the figure. It is not in anybody’s total yet.
A text and an email with the amount and what it is for. No account, no password, nothing for them to install.
They sign with a finger. The name, the figure they were shown, the date and the device are all kept.
Only now does it move the total. Undecided changes are chased on a schedule, and then it stops.
It opens your job and nothing else. No account, no password, nothing to install. You will see every change, what you have agreed to, and what is still waiting on you.
The limit is how many run at once, never how many you do. Finish one and the room comes straight back — and every finished job is kept for good.
One argued-over change order costs more than a year of this.