Preparing Your Home for Remodeling and Renovation
Step Five: Preconstruction Phase for Remodeling and Renovations
At the two-hour preconstruction meeting, Blue Ribbon Residential Construction and the homeowner will review all documentation together again and decide upon a forecasted start date. Other topics covered at this meeting include:
- How you should prepare your house for remodeling
- Setting up a temporary kitchen
- Location of the portable toilet
- Location of the material staging area
- Location of the debris pile and debris control
- Dust and damage control
- Lead paint hazard for homes constructed before 1978
- Home security and project safety
- Children and pets and their access to the worksite
- Parking for our construction crew
- How production schedules and working hours will impact your family
- Payment schedules
- Delays incurred and why
- Phone use
- Job signs and permit box locations
Preparing Your Home for a Remodel and Renovations
Discuss the project with your family, so they know what to expect. Remodeling can be stressful, particularly for small children, and especially if the area being remodeled is a kitchen, bath or bedroom. The workmen, noise and dust can be a very real annoyance. We understand this and will do our part to make a minimal impact on your life and your schedules.
We make extensive use of drop cloths, plastic room dividers, shoe covers and vacuums - but remember that sheetrock and plaster dust are difficult to completely control. We will provide special plastic carpet covers where construction traffic is likely. If there is to be a kitchen remodel, we will help you set up a temporary work area with your coffeepot, microwave, refrigerator and hot plate in another room.
There are other precautions that both the contractor and the homeowner must take to ensure a project where frustration is minimized. Blue Ribbon will provide you with an instruction sheet when the time comes. These instructions include details about the removal of items of value, paintings, wall decorations, rugs, drapes and furniture from the project area.
Depending upon the scope of the job, your yard and landscaping may be damaged. Blue Ribbon Residential Construction will re-grade, seed and straw damaged grassy areas. Unless specified in the contract, shrubbery will not be replaced. If shrubs are designated to be saved, we will make every effort to tie them up to allow room to work in that area. If tying is not a practical solution, you may be advised to have a landscaper remove shrubs for future re-installation.
Finally, after due preparation, you will be ready for the next step: Construction.