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gnavodar
Sziastok,

We are looking for renovations contractors, if you know someone that you would recmend to your family please share contact information. Thanks
cdw057
Hungary is big, where are you located?
gnavodar
Hi there, we are looking for contractors that are interested to work in Mogyoród, a small village in Pest County, Thank you.
cdw057
Close to Budapest, so quite expensive, depends if you want to do things very official (I would suppose so), but even then Ukraine contractors we had good experience with. Also probably good to speak to neighbours or City hall. (We lived in the West of Hungary (so no use).
Neighbours can be great or a nightmare, but be sure all get their part of the pie. Still things can be very very expensive, or just a bit expensive or average.
fluffy2560
Hi there, we are looking for contractors that are interested to work in Mogyoród, a small village in Pest County, Thank you.
- @gnavodar

General contractors are hard to find.  We had to find them by individual specialisation - like roofers/electricians/gardeners/builders etc.   It might get better as people are cutting back due to inflation and material cost increases while those with money can continue to afford to pay.

Worker prices might start reducing as the building boom starts slowing down. 
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If you're willing to shell out money it shouldn't be to hard to find a contractor. However most of the ones with experience have long died or moved to the west.

We can't even get a friend of a friend who also needs the same repair job as we need to get out to look at our 2 ceilings.

Without seeing our friends ceiling she was quoted over $500.

My husband said it only takes less then $50. worth of material and an expert could do the work in a few hours. Water damage in the celing making the plaster peel off.

We'd do the job oursevles but I don't want my 75 year old husband on a high ladder that long and don't want to take days it get it done either.

In 1988 we sent for my BIL to come to the USA for 2 months too work on our house in Ca.

We paid him in 1988 $10. per hour plus free room and board. Board included his smokes and booze, at least another $40. per day, his was a alki and a 2 pack a day guy.

He was an expert in concret constrution , worked on contracts in Russia in big projects.

Had built homes himself etc.

Still tax fee $10. per hour, vacation in the USA, free travel, free airfare, trips to Vegas, Disneyland and SF and Mexico were included all free to him. The work was fast and good when he wasn't drunk . In the long run it was a waste of money. We fixed up our home to sell it and by the time we fixed it up the property value had gone done over $20,000.

It's going to cost.

We had a guy with his own constrution business come to a friends place in Budapest a few years back to see if he could redo her bathroom.

He promised it would be done within 2 weeks of start time. His prices were sky high though and the job was never done by him.

Good luck, might be better if you could do some work yourself.

PS, we got a quote for a simple paint job in our kitchen l2 years ago or so. Over $400 just for a white wash paint job. Nothing fancy.

My husband worked for a few months in Paris in a HU painting crew in his youth, it burns him to over pay for something he could do himself if he wished to.

From what our neighbors tell us they will start a job then leave it half done if a better paying job turns up.

If they get paid by the hour then they work slow.

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