Real quotes, side by side.
No strangers walking through your house to get them.
Photograph and measure the job yourself, on your phone, following a form that tells you exactly what to capture. Every contractor then prices the same document, so their numbers actually compare. It costs you nothing.
Kitchens, baths, and mid-size remodels
Same room. Same photos. Same fixtures. The only thing that changes between these three numbers is who is quoting, which is the one thing a price is supposed to tell you.
Your whole job is one Saturday morning
Getting three quotes normally means becoming the project manager of your own house, hosting stranger after stranger and comparing numbers that were never for the same work.
- Photograph and measure the job on your phone, following the prompts
- Measure a few things and take some photographs
- Answer a handful of questions about what you want
- Choose a quote, or don’t
- Tell you exactly what to measure and photograph, so nothing important gets missed
- Record every contractor’s New Jersey registration and certificate of insurance, and stop inviting them the day either one lapses
- Send every one of them the identical document, sealed, so their prices mean the same thing
- Tell you who has not answered
- Keep your address and phone number private until you pick someone
The difference, honestly
| One Walkthrough | Doing it yourself | |
|---|---|---|
| Strangers walking through your house before you’ve chosen | None | Three or more |
| Hours of your time | About one | Six to ten |
| Quotes you have to decode yourself | None | All of them |
| Chasing people who never call back | We do it | You do it |
| Knowing the prices are for the same work | Yes | Almost never |
| What it costs you | Nothing | Your evenings |
How it works
You document it yourself
Your phone asks for the measurements and photographs that actually change a price, one at a time, and tells you how to take each one. Most of it is photographs. Stop whenever you like and pick up where you left off. Nothing to pay, and the write-up is yours to keep whatever you do next.
Contractors bid the same document, sealed
Every contractor prices the identical document, and none of them sees anyone else’s number. Because they’re quoting the same job, you can finally compare like with like. They see your town, never your address, until you choose one.
One walkthrough, then you decide
You pick a bid, and that contractor comes to verify everything you recorded before anything is signed. That’s the one walkthrough. If what they find changes the number, you see it then, not halfway through the job. Either of you can walk away after it.
What you get
A written record of your own project, every measurement, every photograph and every condition, so you understand your renovation before anyone starts, and so nobody can quietly price something different.
Quotes you can actually compare: same job, same details, sealed so nobody shades a number.
Your street address and phone number stay private while you decide. Contractors see the town and the work, nothing that lets them turn up at your door.
And when you’ve chosen, a verification visit before you sign, so the price you agreed is the price that was checked.
What it costs
Nothing, for you. Scoping your project is free because you do it. The bids are free. Walking away is free, and the write-up stays yours.
The contractor you choose pays us when you choose them. That is the only time we are paid. We earn nothing from sending you names, and nothing at all unless a job actually happens.
This is not a lead site. Lead sites sell your phone number to five contractors and get paid whether or not anything gets built. Then your phone rings for a month. Here, nobody has your number until you pick them, so there is nothing to sell.
If you’d rather pay your contractor in stages through us, with the money held until you approve each part of the work, you can. It’s optional, and we’ll explain it when you get there.
Start your project
Before you start: what you're agreeing to (tap to read)
It costs you nothing. Recording your project is free because you do it yourself. The bids are free. If you don't like any of them you owe nothing, and the write-up of your project stays yours to use anywhere. The contractor you choose pays us; you never do.
You are describing your own home, and we are not checking it. You measure and photograph it, and you tell us what you know. One Walkthrough does not visit, does not verify what you record, and does not inspect anything. What you write is what contractors price.
This is not a home inspection. Nothing behind a wall, under a floor or inside a ceiling is seen by anybody. Conditions you cannot see are priced as unknowns, which is why the form asks you to write down whatever you could not reach or were unsure about.
Your address stays private until you choose someone. Contractors bidding your project see your town and the work, never your street address, name, phone or email. Those are released only to the contractor you pick.
One walkthrough, then you both decide. The contractor you choose visits to verify what you recorded before anything is signed. If what they find changes the price, you see it then. Either of you may walk away after that visit.
Your contract is with your contractor. They contract with you directly. One Walkthrough is not a party to it, does not supervise the work, and does not guarantee any contractor's workmanship.
Paying your contractor in stages through us, with the money held until you approve each part of the work, is available and optional. Full text: Homeowner Agreement.
We only take your project on when enough contractors on our roster cover it in your county. There is nothing to pay: you photograph and measure the job on your phone, following a form that tells you what to capture, and every contractor prices what you record.
Who is behind this
I'm Mike. My dad is a general contractor and I grew up on his jobs, watching him give away Saturdays on estimates that went nowhere.
One Walkthrough is my attempt at the other version of that: the measuring happens once, the homeowner does it, and every contractor prices the same document. I did my own bathroom first, to find out whether that was realistic. Half an hour with a tape measure and a phone, 16 measurements and 31 photographs. That is the packet a contractor receives.
We are new and building the contractor roster county by county. In the counties we're open in, the first projects are worked by hand: your packet goes to contractors I contact directly, and you keep it whatever comes back.
Questions, or something on this site that reads wrong to you: mike@onewalkthrough.com or . Both come to me.
Renovating in the next year?
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No spam, no selling your info. That's kind of our whole thing.