subject: Renovations: How To Renovate A Home [print this page] Renovations: How To Renovate A Home Renovations: How To Renovate A Home
If you have decided to put to a new finish on the floors before painting the walls - you'll soon realize to do walls before floors which will also makes sense. Or do you have a plan to do in an opposite way? Once it comes to renovations you have to consider many factors. Below are some suggestions to look out.
Planning and design:
Whether it is the complete architectural plans or outline on the cocktail napkin, certain kind of design and planning should always considered first.
Check whether you've enough financial support for the renovation.
Find subcontractors and contractors for such kind of jobs.
Windows, Roof, Siding, Foundation:
Protect the future refinish work by making sure the home will not crumble on you (foundation, major constructive troubles) and that it would stay on dry (siding, roof, windows).
Take major constructive amends to areas like joists, damaged walls and holding beams.
Secure the base
Repair or replace roof
Replace badly damaged windows which could risk future reconstructing work. If not badly impaired, forget it.
If siding is impaired indeed then they could let water to enter gradually, replace or repair it. If not badly impaired, forget it.
Destruction:
Depending upon the condition of home and scale of the renovations, destruction may be the opening move.
Destroy everything carefully or some of regions of home which need to be refurbished. Destroy as far as possible if you are not there in the home.
Be careful while destroying lead-based coating surfaces.
Structural woodwork:
Call the carpenters at this time for major woodwork plans for factors like:
Building fresh walls
Shifting walls
Applying beams to support the bigger weight upstairs'
Elaborating window openings
Applying fresh structure windows
Plugging in fresh doors (or taking away present doors)
Insulation:
Set up fiberglass batt insulation in attic and walls. Insulation works quickly, therefore give a call to the drywaller and make him to know he is next up.
Drywall:
The 2nd review from the electric examiner (and maybe the plumbing examiner) will provide you the initiative to close the surrounds.
Put a drywall compound, and allow it to dry. Occasionally, they'll repeat this procedure till they get the smooth surface.
Flooring:
After completing your renovation procedure, install the flooring because it will saves the surface from big impairment.
Windows:
After setting up the flooring install the replacing windows.
Smooth woodwork:
Here is where you have to introduce woodwork which should not involve constructive issues. Install molding, baseboards, crop around doors and windows, inbuilt parts (breakfast areas, bookcases and so on.)
Interior wallpaper, house painting and some other surface coatings:
Hanging wallpaper, interior walls paintings, painting trim and molding, varnishing, home improvement flooring and staining trim all these should be the final things to do inside.
Major additional construction:
Finally, do the major additional construction tasks such as
