What a cabin quotation should explain

Two quotations for “a cabin” can describe two very different buildings. Before comparing prices, make sure each one explains the same things.

What is the structure — frame, panel, log, container — and what is the insulation and its thickness? What is included at the foundation, and who is responsible for the ground it sits on? Where does the quotation stop: at the factory door, at delivery, at installation, at a finished, connected building?

Ask what is excluded in writing. Ask how changes are priced. Ask for the drawings the price is based on. A good fabricator will have all of this ready; the questions are only awkward when the answers are.