I had to beg to get him to install a couple of fixtures and would have been better off firing him and hiring someone else because he was chasing that next check to pay TODAYS bills even though he still was supposed to do yesterday’s work.

You should be finishing your house out with amenities that are comparable to the neighborhood (houses have granite countertops then you install granite countertops, etc.).

We had just over $25k in each of them by the time I had them moved, blocked/underpinned, installed septic, water, etc.

You install them on the cold feed to the water heater.   

I was quoted $2.50 sq/ft for their lower end trafficmaster material and install.

This is an easy way to tell if the properties PEH was installed right.4.

Lots of them also skip over how to level your floor or how to install cement board if you are tiling over sub floors.

The general idea is to renovate the kitchen with new cabinet & counter top; Update all the restrooms; patch up all walls; remove pop-corn ceiling, repaint whole house; re-sand and re-stain all the hardwood floor; some plumbing work; install can lights in all rooms; move some lighting fixtures; add/move switches and wire for Ethernet.

That design without countertops came to about $6500 after tax not including install and counter tops / sink. 

The decapitation will involve breaking freshly installed glass, slicing through new steel beams, and grinding down recently poured concrete.