Thumbtack · general contractors
A remodel lead on Thumbtack costs more than most and arrives as three lines. You have paid for it before you read it, and the homeowner is messaging every contractor on the page while you are on site.
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Remodel and addition requests are at the top of the price range, and they arrive during working hours — exactly when a contractor is on a jobsite and not at a desk. The lead you paid the most for is the one that waits the longest.
The platform collects category, timing and sometimes budget. It does not ask whether the house is on slab, whether they own it, or what is behind the wall they want moved. One good question in the first reply is what separates a site visit from a long thread that goes nowhere.
We are looking to remodel our kitchen, maybe move the island. House is from 1978. Hoping to start sometime in the spring, not sure what this kind of thing runs.
Happy to take a look — a 1978 kitchen usually means the layout is workable but the wiring and plumbing decide the cost, and moving an island is mostly a question of what is under the slab. Do you know if you are on slab or crawlspace? That is the one answer that changes the number the most, and it helps me tell you a realistic range before we schedule a walkthrough.
Demand patterns, seasonality and what wins a job are the same whichever platform the lead came from — we cover that on the page for general contractors. This page is about what Thumbtack specifically adds to it.
One extra job pays for hundreds of leads. That is the whole argument.
No, unless you set ranges yourself. A number given from a three-line request is a number you spend the walkthrough walking back — and on a remodel that costs you the job, not just the argument.
Every lead is scored before a reply is written. Someone with no timeline still gets a courteous answer, but your phone stays quiet.
It scores them before a reply is written, and a raised minimum score keeps the far-away ones unanswered. By default the AI answers them with a polite no instead, because silence counts against you on Thumbtack. Either way it saves the drive, which on a remodel estimate is the expensive part.
Every Thumbtack lead already cost you money. Make sure each one gets a reply.
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