Budget & scope
Build a complete wellness room budget
Compare proposals across five layers: professional planning, building work, equipment, construction conditions, and ownership. Start with the room you want, then ask each team to price the same complete brief.
Explore the five budget layers
Five layers to carry in the budget
Professional and investigation scope
Programming, surveys, existing-condition investigation, architecture, interiors, engineering, permits, coordination, and project management.
Room and building work
Structure, assemblies, waterproofing or vapor strategy where applicable, drainage, plumbing, ventilation, electrical work, controls, acoustics, millwork, and finishes.
Selected modalities and equipment
Equipment, enclosures, delivery, setting, connections, controls, accessories, required clearances, and the work needed to integrate each component.
Construction conditions
Access, demolition, temporary protection, dust and moisture control, occupied-home sequencing, exterior work, restoration, and unknown existing conditions.
Commissioning and ownership
Testing, balancing where applicable, training, documentation, initial service, cleaning, consumables, utilities, maintenance, repairs, and eventual replacement access.
Questions for proposal comparisons
- What is included, excluded, an allowance, or owner-provided?
- Who owns each interface between equipment and building?
- Which existing conditions have been verified?
- What delivery, service, drainage, and replacement access remains?
- What testing, training, documents, warranty, and aftercare are included?
- Which decisions or discoveries can change the scope?
Make proposals comparable
When proposals arrive, use our wellness-room proposal comparison guide to check scope, allowances, and responsibilities side by side.
Give each team the same room brief and ask for a responsibility matrix. Separate fixed scope from allowances, alternates, owner-provided items, and conditions still to be investigated. Compare the entire path from existing conditions through handover—not a single headline number.
A proposal should make clear whether it includes coordination with the architect, interior designer, builder, and qualified system professionals, as well as what remains outside that team’s scope.
Your next step
Turn your room brief into a proposal
Share the room dimensions, intended modalities, new-build or retrofit context, finish preferences, and known access constraints. Ask for separate allowances where decisions remain open, plus an ownership and service plan. Installed cost depends on the site and agreed scope; each firm's written proposal should state those assumptions.