Step three of three
The thing you actually hand a builder.
Fill in the boxes below, print this, and give the same document to three builders. Everything they need in order to price the job is on it. One thing is deliberately not: your price.
There is no price on this document and that is the point. You have a rough figure on the design page. Keep it. A builder who sees your number quotes your number, whether it was high or low. Let three people price the same drawing without knowing what you were expecting, and you will learn more from the spread than from any single quote.
Nothing has been designed yet, so this request uses a plain 16 by 12 ft deck. Draw your own first, then come back here.
How to send it
There is no send button here, and there is not going to be one. Nothing you type leaves your own browser.
Print it and hand it over, or use your browser's print dialogue and choose Save as PDF, then attach the PDF to an email. Give the same one to every builder you approach.
Send it to three. Three quotes on the same drawing is the whole method. Two is a coin toss and one is not a comparison at all.
Before you print
Fill in the address. Fill in the phone number you actually answer. Say what the wall is made of. Every blank you leave is a phone call you will have to take later, or a site visit that pushes the quote out a week.
What prints is everything below this line.