What You Need To Know Before Construction Starts On Your Home

When it comes to constructing or remodelling your home I'm sure you will have a number of questions and ideas that you wish to ask the contractor

. Sometimes because we are so busy getting everything together we sometimes miss the important questions that should have been asked at the beginning of the project.

By simply making sure that you have a better understanding of everything that is going to happen during the whole project it will save you a lot of frustration and grief.

You need to agree to contractor of who was responsible for the building inspection. These can sometimes take time and if the contractor wishes to do this that is going to be take time away from construction or remodelling your home. The last thing you want to do is to allow the project to dominate because of spending too much time with the building inspector. Sometimes a homeowner can work with their building inspector, which in turn saves contractor stopping work on the project.

You want to also agree with the contractor as to what responsibilities you have is a homeowner. The most important obviously be from his point of view the financial obligations. But, this is not your point of view, of course the financial obligations are important. But, you also want to make sure that you responsibilities might include managing the overall project so that it progresses as set out in the beginning.

We've also want to know what the contractor's responsibilities are. This may seem a bit silly but just because you have signed a contract does not mean that everything is going to run smoothly between the contractor and you. You need to make sure that your contractor agrees to certain terms that you may have like construction problems, building permits, safety, insurance, cleanup and whatever else you consider important during the building phase. You also want to have a clear understanding of what happens once the building phase is finished she did not want to be left with what looks like a building site which construction finished.

If your contractor is hiring in subcontractors you need to have a clear understanding that they have all worked together previously. The last thing you want is friction and tension between various contractors working on site who cannot seem to get along. You would be surprised at what effect this can have on a project. Most of his time your contractor would be with people that he has previously dealt with in the past so this may not be an issue just checked this in case before anything happens.

Keeping the contractor schedule should be contractor's problem. The last thing you want to be doing is overpaying for work that has been going so slow that it ends up dragging it over time. It's you that's going to be paying this so you need to make sure in the agreement and who's responsibility it is that the project is on time and also on budget.

I'm sure you will have lots more questions than this but this is just to give you an idea of the kind of thoughts and thinking you should have before agreeing to any contract.

by: Mark Dunne

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