title: "How many contractor bids should I get" h1: "How many bids should I get?" description: "Three. Two doesn't tell you anything, if they're $20,000 apart you have no way to know which one is the outlier. Three gives you a middle."
Three. Two doesn't tell you anything, if they're $20,000 apart you have no way to know which one is the outlier. Three gives you a middle.
More than four and you're wasting contractors' time. Bidding is unpaid work, and the good ones notice when they're one of seven. You'll get slower responses and less care.
Get all three bidding the same scope. If one is pricing quartz and another is pricing granite, you aren't comparing bids, you're comparing shopping lists.