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House Renovation

November 1, 2018

House Renovation

House Renovation

House renovation can become a stressful time with contradicting suggestions, an overwhelming amount of choice, and rising costs. However, when planned out carefully, it becomes a pleasant experience watching your house slowly get a new look. Here are some tips that will make your house renovation less of a hassle and more of an enjoyment.

  1. Crosscheck the contractor:

Getting the proper contractor can determine the way your entire experience goes, therefore ensure you find someone well recommended. If they have provided references, make full use of these, call them, and ask about the contractor. This doesn’t mean just his work skills but also how well he listens to the clients because you will be in constant contact with him.

  1. Plan Ahead:

This rule works well in any area of life. Don’t wait for the contractor to give you options. Browse the internet and talk to friends because the last thing you want is to end up spending a lot of money because you keep changing your mind.

  1. House Rules:

During your home renovation, there will be a lot of strangers going in and out of your house that you can’t keep an eye on. If you have any rules such as not smoking in the house, make it known right from the start.

  1. Details Matter:

Make sure that every detail of the entire home renovation is taken down in writing by your contractor before you start with the work or put in your money. There is nothing worse than going into this painful time and then finding out that one part of your plan is not jotted down in your contract, thus you’ve got to end up paying an extra fee for it.

  1. Clean the Mess:

It is extremely necessary that the renovation crew cleans up every single day despite whether or not they can come and make another mess or not. In most cases, the renovation will create a huge amount of dust and if it is left untended to, it will enter your heating or cooling system. This can lead to any amount of health problems.

Common mistakes made by homeowners while renovating

Designing a building renovation is not only about how it will look but also what materials are to be used, when they are required, making payments to subcontractors and suppliers and quality assurance. Following are a few common mistakes made by homeowners while renovating a house:

  1. Insufficient Planning

The success of your renovation project largely depends on good planning. A plan helps you in focusing on the areas that require your attention.

  1. Poor Materials Management

Timely material planning is a huge task but it can be very expensive not having the appropriate materials in the required quantity at the right time. In large projects, you can seek the advice of an expert to estimate the required material.

  1. Slack Quality Assurance

Use a work-check-approve-work cycle at every stage of the renovation. The three most critical parts of the project include framings, foundations, and services. The foundations are the support on which the different part of design relies.

  1. Poor Record Keeping

Keep file, records, and everything well organized. Your financer requires evidence of completion at every stage and a summary of expenses with the dates, before issuing you the next payment. If in case, you are not using finance service then record keeping is just a good management.

  1. Poor Subcontractor Management

One good thing about hiring a builder as the project manager is that they have the best network of subcontractors. In a full home renovation, there may be 25 to 5 subcontractors. You need to have a well-planned system for managing, engaging, qualifying and contracting subcontractors.

For any help on home renovation, check out the info available online; these will help you learn to find the house extensions!

With these tips, you will find it a lot easier to go through your house renovation without losing your patience. The key, as stated above, knows what you want ahead of time. Once you know this very well, your renovation will always go smoothly.

Filed Under: LA Property Management News, Property Management Education, Residential Properties Tagged With: landlord tips, Property Management

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