Need advice: cell phone home signal booster?

[IgiTang]

Sorry if this is being discussed in another thread. Ironicly, my nexus 5 doesn't want to let me search CP threads ATM..

Anyway.. To the point.

I am 4 days away from moving into the house I bought 2 months ago and am almost finished the 100k reno. The other day my contractor was in the house talking to me on his cell and he kept losing signal.

He said he was on the main floor and it was happening everywhere on that floor. My wife's office is on the main floor also and does the majority of her work on her iPhone 5.
We cannot take a chance of this happening to her.

So.. I am hoping someone can give me some advice on a cost effective solution under $100.00.
Thanks.

[photon]

We used a cell signal booster in a metal building I worked in once, worked awesome, but they're lots more than $100 ($500 or so I think it was).

The idea is you have an antenna on the top of the building and then a wire runs inside to a repeater inside the building.

Not sure how much help that would be to you though, the antenna on the repeater is better on your cell antenna, and it does have a height advantage, but it's not guaranteed to help if the signal where the antenna is is really bad.

Something like this maybe, no experience with that specific model.

http://unidencellular.ca/uni-005-custom.html