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spenceey
Where are you based? If North London... try mine: https://www.totalcarpentry.co.uk/
He's next level great, and will sort everything. I found him to be above the middle point of quotes I received, but the standard to which the work was done and everything that was included were exemplary... I came away thinking it was an absolute bargain. This was for the kitchen renovation work.
He lives North of London, so will only stray into North London.
For me: My criteria is how well someone can describe the job. Not whether they can repeat my words back to me, but whether they show they fully understand the job and can tell me something I didn't know about what they're going to do (the more detailed but varied, the more I believe their competence is going to be high because they've done this before).
Ergo, if they can't describe the job well they may not have understood it well and so the quote is probably not reflective of what the final price would be as they've probably missed something.