Match the written scope before you compare
Two written tile proposals can be set side by side only when they describe the same surface, the same existing layers to be removed, the same preparation of what remains, the same party furnishing the tile and trim, and the same trades left out. If one document omits removal or edge pieces, it describes a different job. The two documents are not yet a comparison.
Line the sentences up
Put the proposals in two columns and copy only the sentences that name work. A heading such as "tile installation" is not a line. A line says what comes off, what stays, what gets fastened or flattened, which materials arrive from whom, and where the new finish stops. When a sentence exists on one sheet and not the other, mark that row as unmatched. Do not average the two descriptions into one imagined job.
Unmatched rows decide the reading
An unmatched row is the finding. One sheet may include a new backer and the other may start on the board that is already there. One may carry edge metal and the other may stop at the field tile. One may leave the drain and the valve with a plumber. Until those rows match, choosing between the sheets means choosing between different work, which is a scope decision rather than a ranking of installers.
Ask for a rewritten pair
The useful next step is a revised pair that uses the same rows. Ask each author to add the missing sentence or to state that the row is outside the work. After the rows match, the comparison is about how each sheet performs that shared scope. Before that, more adjectives about skill do not repair the mismatch.
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