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Almost every delay in getting an estimate back is an information delay at the front, not a production delay in the middle. Here is the whole list, and why each item is on it.

There is a comfortable assumption that a slower market means keener prices. It is worth testing, because the last two years have not behaved in that way.

The order in which advice gets commissioned is largely a matter of habit. It is also, on a surprising number of schemes, the difference between a site that works and a site that sits.