Free Estimate
A number you can actually build with
Tell us what you are planning. We will walk the site, write a real scope and give you a price that holds, at no charge and with nothing owed either way.
Start here
Fill this in and Skycrest Homes will call you back the same working day. If you would rather just talk, the phone is faster and our team answers it.
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What it costs you
Nothing. The site visit and the written scope are free, and there is no obligation after either one.
Where we do this
Barrington, Palatine, Long Grove, Libertyville, St. Charles, Naperville, Hinsdale, Burr Ridge and the wider Chicago suburbs
What you get back
An estimate, not a ballpark
Plenty of builders will give you a number over the phone. That number is a guess, and a guess is what gets revised once the walls are open. Here is what we hand you instead.
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A site visit
We review the lot or walk the house with you and give you feedback. Grade, access, what is behind the existing walls, what the village will allow. None of that is knowable from a phone call.
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A written scope
Every room, every fixture and every allowance named on paper. This is the document the price is built on, and it is the one you can hold us to.
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A price that holds
Priced off the written scope, not off a square-foot average. If the scope does not change, the number does not change.
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A real schedule
Start date, the order the trades come through and the month you get it back. Permit review is in there too, because it is the step that moves most often.
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Something comparable
Laid out so you can set it beside another builder's quote and see where the two differ. Most of the time the difference is what one of them left out.
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A straight answer
Including the one nobody wants to hear. If what you want cannot be done for what you want to spend, we say so before you have paid anybody.
Why no number on the first call
The cheapest quote is usually the least finished one
Two builders can quote the same house half a million apart and both be telling the truth, because they are not quoting the same house. One has priced the windows you picked and the other has priced an allowance. You find out which is which somewhere around the framing inspection.
So we do not quote before we have seen the site and written the scope. It takes longer at the start. It is the reason our final number looks like our first one.
Would rather just talk it through
Call and tell us what you are thinking about. Most questions get a straight answer in the first five minutes.