Hiring a general contractor is not just about who can swing a hammer. When a project involves a designer and a GC working together, alignment matters. A lot. When it’s wrong, the cracks show early, usually before construction even begins.

Hiring the wrong contractor is expensive. Not just financially, but emotionally, logistically, and in lost time you will never get back. One of the most common problems we see at Waldron Designs is not bad contractors, but mismatched contractors.

We found this as a common question in an internet search and immediately took pause to determine exactly what the question is asking. With two possible interpretations, we thought we would take a moment to answer both from our point of view.