How to renovate home in 3 steps in a simple, practical and functional way?

How to renovate home in 3 steps in a simple, practical and functional way? Renovating home represents a particularly important and delicate decision, which must be conceived and organized with the utmost care and attention. In this article we will provide you with some important tips and advice on how to organize a home renovation in an appropriate way, optimizing costs and carrying out the work in a workmanlike manner.

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Steps to renovate home: how to proceed

Often when you renovate your home you make mistakes sometimes unfortunately irreversible. Here's how to move to renovate your home avoiding the most common mistakes and optimizing the most time and costs.

Before starting any type of real estate renovation it is advisable to carefully evaluate all the possibilities related to tax relief offered by the current legislation on building renovation (such as the Superbonus 110 percent).

The first mistake that people very often make in the renovation of a property is to rely blindly on a construction company, without having the slightest idea of a project that defines the interventions to be performed. In fact, the construction companies do not deal with design and will propose an estimate with its costs per square meter, to which will be added the cost of materials. The costs calculated in the estimate made by a construction company will be very sketchy and sometimes very far from what you are going to spend overall for the renovation of your spaces.

For this reason it is always important to define an overall budget of expenditure, in which you will have to cover all the overall costs (cost of materials, cost of labor, cost of equipment, furniture and lighting). The only way to clearly and reliably define the overall costs of a renovation is to make a professional project. This will be indispensable in defining the future space and functionality of each of your rooms. The project will be even more important if you have a particularly limited budget: in this way you can avoid from the beginning to make interventions too expensive.

Relying on a construction company without a renovation project, the risk is to enter into a contract, with the definition of the interventions in the work: this will result in a significant aggravation and increase in costs, which will far exceed the budget provided.

Ideas for home renovation: always pay attention to special offers

The modern world, in the construction industry as in all other areas of commerce lives on marketing and mass advertising: for this reason it is even more important to pay attention to the many offers available on the market and the many slogans such as "renovations at 200 Euro per square meter". Any serious and qualified professional in the building sector will certainly confirm that a real estate renovation that can be defined as such (including plumbing, sanitary renovation, false ceilings, demolition works and renovation of doors and windows) can never be proposed at a lower figure of 500, 600 Euro per square meter.

It is also true that sometimes poor quality materials are chosen, but 200 Euros per square meter is a really impossible cost to bear for a company operating in the field of real estate renovations. When choosing materials it is always good to try not to save too much and opt for medium-high quality standards. On the other hand, it is certainly possible to save a few Euros on the choice of furnishings, opting for non-design solutions available at competitive prices.

In any case, before letting yourself be seduced by one of the many "special offers" available on the building market, it is always important to carefully evaluate some important aspects:

• Whether materials are included or excluded in the building renovation offer
• If the amount is to be considered final or with the formula "starting from".
• If the amount is inclusive of VAT or not
• How the extra interventions are calculated (for example the laying of a different tile from the one included in the offer).
• If the technician who instructs and takes care of the bureaucratic practice of restructuring is included in the offer
• What are the references of the construction company that is going to perform the renovation work (is the labor Italian?)
• What happens in case of extension of time for the completion of work not due to causes attributable to you
• Who will present the necessary documents for the obtainment of the agibility?
• Who will handle any disputes between you and the construction company?

Renovating home without skipping steps or phases

An intervention of building renovation must necessarily follow the phases or specific steps and tested: it is not possible to start the work of renovation without first having made the bureaucratic practice and obtained the relevant permits. It is also not possible to start the interventions without having previously defined with the company the coatings that will be installed.

Skipping or ignoring a step, you will cause the delay or even worse the stop of a restructuring intervention: this could also lead to an increase in costs to be incurred. For this reason it is always important to rely on professionals and technicians experienced in the field of restructuring, so that each phase or step is followed in the correct way.

Phases or steps of a building renovation

The following is a summary of the main phases or steps of a building renovation project

• Choice of the surveyor, architect or engineer who will deal with the work: the choice of a professional is mandatory only for certain renovation works (although generally always highly recommended).
• Realization of the renovation project with relative metric survey.
• Establishment of the budget and accurate calculation of the renovation costs, with evaluation of the different options (e.g. decision to apply for a mortgage or loan from a bank or credit institution).
• Accompany the renovation project with information about the facilities.
• Contracting with a construction or building firm (after evaluating various proposals and estimates).
• Choice and order of materials (coverings, sanitary ware, flooring).
• Activation of the bureaucratic practice of building renovation (in the case of work on buildings bound the practice must be activated and instructed well before this stage).
• Start of renovation work with definition of the relative timing
• Order of fixtures, lighting fixtures and initial furnishings.
• End of the renovation works and obtaining of all the certifications related to the conformity of the installations.

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• Allow time for any interventions and extra work
• Concentrate totally on furniture and furnishings.

Don't be swayed by quick renovation proposals

In addition to not being influenced by particularly cheap property renovation proposals, it is also necessary to pay attention to proposals that are too quick and fast. Certainly, there are companies on the market that are extremely efficient and able to operate in decidedly rapid and uncommon times. With this in mind, however, it is important to consider the fact that the time frame for a building renovation job is important and never extremely limited. Consider the fact that for these interventions you are going to spend a considerable amount of money: if only for this reason it is good to carry out the work in a serious way and devoting to them all the time necessary.

Renovating a house too quickly, could result in a series of extremely serious problems, such as:

• Carrying out a project with criticalities or that does not convince us totally
• Making decisions that are too rash
• Be content to use the materials immediately available in stock or buy furniture from exposure
• Carrying out work in a way that is not completely accurate and having to intervene again later to solve the criticalities
• Rely only on companies that are free at the time and available to carry out renovation work
• Risking to panic because of an unforeseen event and not knowing how to solve the problem.
• Just as with the budget you have set for your renovation work, you will also have to consider the fact that you will have to make extra decisions when it comes to timing.

Renovating home: the importance of details

One of the main rules for all people who are going to renovate their homes is the need to always pay the utmost attention to details. Real estate renovations are very complex interventions that involve the need to make important decisions and as targeted as possible. For many people renovating their home becomes a particularly stressful operation and sometimes a real nightmare: keeping calm is the watchword!

Paying the utmost care and attention to details will help you to be ready to act in case of technical problems or unexpected events. Never neglecting the details means that the renovation is done properly and with the utmost precision. For this reason, do not rush into choosing a coating just because you like it a lot from an aesthetic point of view: in these choices you should never be superficial and impulsive. Instead, the covering must be chosen with the effect you intend to recreate in your spaces clearly in mind. Every decision you make should be combined with the overall idea expressed in your project, so as to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.

Never forget that a real estate renovation represents a kind of test, which cannot be separated from your determination and a strong creative component. The latter should also concern the choice of technicians and people who will work in your renovation: not all technicians are equal and you will have to choose based on the experience of the professional and your feelings. In choosing the most suitable technician to design your work, our advice is to beware of those professionals who claim to follow your work in every single aspect.