One of the great joys of owning your own home is improving upon it. Whether you’re painting, building a deck, remodeling your kitchen, or any host of projects – home improvement feels empowering. It’s your home, and you can make it into whatever you want it to be! But it can also be a little scary. Data about the cost of home improvement projects is not easily available. When you have to hire help, how will you know that you’re getting the best deal?
In this infographic, we’ll give you the highest highs, lowest lows, and national average costs of every home project you could think of. If you want more information, check out our True Cost Report too!
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The True Cost of Home Improvement – An infographic by HomeAdvisor
Louie DiNicola,
April 15:
Thank you for the interesting infographic! As a new home owner with a few projects on the roadmap, I’m curious to see if you’re able to provide a de-identified dataset (or something similar) to supplement. For instance, it would be very helpful to see the distribution of cost across the Highest/Lowest Potential prices or even narrow down the project cost via geographic region. Is anything like this availiable for your readers to do their own analysis? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
David Wendelken,
April 23:
So, as I understand it, the prices for DIY project work and hired-out project work are averaged together? That’s pretty darn silly if it’s true. When I want to hire someone I want to know what it’s likely to cost to hire someone, and if I’m going to do it myself, I want to know what the materials and specialized tools will cost, not some professional’s labor price.
Betty,
May 10:
Can you give me some idea how much it would cost to cover a single wide mobile home “Florida room” roof either with a rubber roof or some kind of vinyl? The room is approximately 10- x 16. The mobile is about 30 years old.
Karl dell,
August 13:
Home repair project new roof new ac cooling and heater (2500 sq ft)two bathrooms land clearing (1.5 acres)
Steven D Osmundson,
July 13:
I am a independent estimating consultant and have worked in the field since 1994.The problem I see with this graphic is it doesn’t identify the parameters of the project…number of units, labor costs, quality of installation or even the region. The Cost v Value report has been used for decades to determine all these factors. Perhaps modeling your graphic similar to the C v V report would be beneficial.