Home improvement complaints rank top on the list of consumer complaints due to the failure of the home owner to take certain standard precautions. Homeowners are also prone to making some other mistakes between the initial search and the final deployment of their home improvement contractors. Here are five mistakes that majority of homeowner finds themselves committing;

- Poor communication: they fail to note what they have agreed should be done which the contractor takes advantage of thereafter.

- Waiting until a mistake as already been committed for the homeowner to comment.

- Not hiring a professional contractor. Most home owners have a tendency of hiring lay people or quakes because of their cheapness.

- Not looking for the right person but instead hiring the first person to show-up at your doorstep.

- Hiring a contractor to fix a problem that has yet to be diagnosed or is even nonexistent.