Book a survey
A survey costs nothing and takes an hour
Tell us the address and what is bothering you. Somebody comes and looks, and you have a written price within four working days. No deposit, no obligation and nobody will telephone you twice.
Ring the office
030 254 8817Monday to Saturday, 7.30am to 5pm. Adjoa or Kofi will pick up; neither of them is a call centre.
Send photographs
024 411 9082Six or seven pictures of the room and we can usually tell you a range before anybody visits.
Write to us
hello@abode.com.ghBest for a long description or a set of drawings. Answered the same working day.
What happens next
Four steps, and no surprises in any of them
Nothing on this list costs you anything until you have a written price in front of you and have decided you want it.
01
You ring, or send photographs
Five minutes on the phone. We ask what the house is, what is wrong with it and roughly when you want it done. Nobody will try to sell you anything on that call.
02
Somebody comes and looks
Usually within four working days, at a time that suits you, and it costs nothing. Expect an hour, a tape measure, a torch and a lot of questions about how you use the room.
03
A written price, within four days
One page: materials, labour, rubbish, making good, and an exclusions list. If there are two sensible ways to do it you get both prices rather than the one we prefer.
04
You decide, and we book a date
A third on signing, a third at the halfway point, the balance on handover. We are usually booking four to six weeks out; urgent repairs are a different queue.
Before the survey
Four things worth having ready
None of these is compulsory. All four together turn an hour's visit into a price we can hold to.
Roughly what you want to spend — a range is fine, and it saves us both a fortnight
When you would like it finished, and whether that date is real or hopeful
Any drawings, deeds or old permits, even if they are twenty years out of date
Which rooms you can live without, and which you genuinely cannot
Asked often
Three things people ring to ask
How long does a renovation take?
A bathroom is two to three weeks, a kitchen three to four, a whole house ten to sixteen depending on how much of the shell we are touching. You get a week-by-week programme with the quote, and we tell you on a Friday if the following week has changed.
Will the price change once you start?
Only if we find something behind a wall that nobody could have seen — and then we stop, show you, and price it before we go on. Everything on the original page is fixed. In four years the average job has finished within three per cent of its quote.
Can we stay in the house while you work?
For a single room, yes, easily. For a kitchen you will want somewhere else to cook for about a fortnight. For a whole house most people move out for the first month and come back for the finishing. We will tell you honestly which one your job is.
What people say
Trusted by people who live here
They took the kitchen out on a Monday and we were cooking in it three weeks later, on the day they said. The price at the end was the price on the first page.
Akosua Mensimah
East Legon
We had two builders quote before them and both were cheaper. Both also wanted half the money up front. Abode took a third, showed us the schedule, and never asked for more.
Kojo Anane
Cantonments
I let four flats and I have used them on all of them. What I pay for is not the tiling — it is that I get one call a week and I never have to go and stand there myself.
Mansa Owusu
Airport Residential
The old bathroom leaked into the room below every rainy season for six years. They stripped it to the block, tanked it and re-tiled. Two rainy seasons now, nothing.
Eric Tetteh
Tema Community 25
We lived in the house the whole time with a two-year-old. Every evening the site was swept and the doors were on. That sounds small until you have had builders who did neither.
Serwaa Boateng
Adenta
The rewire found things in that house that frightened me. They stopped, called me, showed me, and gave me a price to fix it before touching anything. That is all I wanted.
Samuel Mensah
Osu
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024 411 9082