The quote scorecard homeowners use
We give homeowners a worksheet for comparing two radon mitigation quotes. Publishing it here is deliberate: a scorecard that only one side can see produces a market where the best-written quote wins rather than the best-designed system.
If your bids already cover these eight lines, this page is free marketing for you. If they do not, it is the cheapest competitive intelligence you will get this year.
The eight lines
Every one of these changes either the price or the outcome, and homeowners are told that a gap between two quotes almost always traces to one of them rather than to a contractor being greedy.
- Soil-contact zones covered — basement slab, crawl space, slab addition, each named.
- Sub-slab diagnostic included, with pressure field extension measured before suction points are chosen.
- Suction point count and locations, marked on the quote.
- Routing path — interior chase or exterior wall — and where the discharge terminates.
- Sealing scope: floor-wall joint, penetrations, sump lid, floor drains, block wall tops.
- Fan make, model, and the static pressure it was selected against.
- Electrical responsibility, disconnect, and who pulls any permit.
- Post-mitigation verification test, and what happens if it comes back above the action level.
The two lines that decide most comparisons
Verification and the remedy clause. A homeowner is told plainly that a quote omitting the verification test omits the deliverable, and that a quote with no remedy clause moves the risk of a failed test onto them.
That is not a rhetorical device. It is the single most common reason a bargain bid is cheaper, and homeowners who read our cost content arrive already knowing to ask.
What we do not score
Price per suction point, price per square foot, or any comparison against a national average. We hold no pricing observations and publish none, so homeowners are never handed a benchmark to argue against.
We also do not rank contractors, publish reviews, or score anyone on speed. There is no leaderboard to game.
How to use this
Write the eight lines into your standard scope template. Most of them are things a competent contractor already does and simply does not write down, and the unwritten version loses to the written one every time.
Where you deliberately differ — no remedy clause because you price accordingly, exterior routing because interior is impractical on that house — say so on the quote. A stated reason beats a silent omission.
Quote scorecard: contractor questions
Does a higher-scoring quote win the referral?
We do not select contractors for homeowners or rank bids. Requests route on coverage and credential currency; the homeowner chooses. The scorecard is theirs, not ours.
Are we obliged to include a verification test?
Nothing obliges you. But homeowners reading our content arrive expecting it, and the platform states site-wide that a system without a verification test is equipment rather than a result. Pricing it in is usually easier than defending its absence.
What if a diagnostic is not warranted on a simple job?
Say that on the quote. "Single-zone poured basement, diagnostic not indicated, price adjusts if conditions differ" is a defensible line. What loses is silence, which reads as an omission rather than a judgement.
Can we get the scorecard as a worksheet?
It is the quote comparison tool in our tools section, and it runs in a browser with nothing transmitted. You are welcome to use it internally, and several contractors do — it doubles as a completeness check before sending.
More for contractors
- Lead quality standards — What every request meets, what is filtered out, and what is not promised.
- How we match homeowners — ZIP to territory, coverage claims, rotation, and a hard cap of three.
- Why join Radon Connect — Capped rosters, qualified requests, per-referral pricing, no cut of your work.
- Homeowner verification — What is checked, what is captured, and what is not claimed.
State requirements
Credentialing and disclosure rules differ by state, and each state page states the credential we verify before routing anything to you.
A published scorecard raises the floor for everyone and costs good contractors nothing. If your quotes already cover these lines, homeowners comparing you against a one-line bid now have language for why yours is higher.
Sources
- U.S. EPA — Radon
- U.S. EPA — Consumer’s Guide to Radon Reduction
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