Posted by RemodelingBlogger in Room Additions
When planning a room addition to your home, you want to make sure that you think smart. If you don’t plan the room additions carefully, you can run into some serious problems and accidentally make the projects take longer than they would otherwise. There are three things that you should consider when planning your room additions.
- Consult a Professional Company
When working with room additions, it is important to hire a company. This is so that you don’t have to worry about the insurance problems caused by the addition if you put cracks in some of the walls and you don’t add the room correctly. When you sign a contract with a company, they are normally responsible for any mistakes. Make sure you discuss all of the damage clauses with them before they get to work.
- Plan to Have a Lot of Noise
Building new rooms in a home isn’t noiseless work. The workers will have to use drills, saws, hammers and any other tool they need to build the walls and floors of the home. Walls don’t just magically go up with glue and some tape. Prepare to have noise in your house for as long as it takes to completely the project. Plan to have the addition done at a time where noise during the day isn’t much of an issue.
If necessary, buy ear muffs to drown out some of the noise. You could even listen to your music during the hours that the workers are their loudest. That will help you concentrate on whatever you’re doing and it will drown out some of the loudest and most obnoxious sounds that you will probably ever hear in your entire lifetime.
- You Will Need Someone There Every Day
Once the builders start working on the inside of the home, they will need somebody to be home to let them into the house. Perhaps you can negotiate a place to keep your house keys, but the bottom line is that you probably won’t trust these people to be alone in your house. Therefore, you will need to find a time that is suitable for you and a time that you aren’t normally out of the house. Beware that this can conflict with family time and alone time and even with extra work you have to do outside of work, so prepare for the noise distraction to be at its worst if you work or go to school during the day.
Although room additions can be hard to plan, they shouldn’t be too hard to execute. Just make sure that you’re around whenever the crew needs to be let in and that you consult a professional company to help you out. You don’t want to be doing this all by yourself because erecting walls is difficult and if done the wrong way, some serious consequences could occur. Having a professional take care of the hard work is the best thing to do in this field of work.
