A residential contractor
in Cedar Grove, New Jersey can help you make improvements to your home,
including expanding the amount of space you have with home additions. Adding on
a new room can give you more options, including having a spare bedroom for
guests, a nursery for an expanding family or even a home office. This type of
renovation work is the most intensive for the company you hire to do the work
and for you and your family while the addition is being built, so knowing what
to expect during the process will help you greatly. Here’s a few things about
the process that you should know before you hire a company to build your home
add-on…read on!
Initial Phase
Making plans will be the
first step and it usually takes a collaborative effort from you, your
residential contractor and an architect. Your home will be inspected and the
blueprints for your house will be requested from the city planner’s office so
that any structural anomalies that aren’t plainly evident can be reviewed by
your professional team. You will be consulted to find out what your specific
needs are and to capture your vision for your home addition. From there, an
architect will draw up plans to safely build the structure while your
contractor reviews the blueprints for practical purposes. With the entire team
and your vision, the initial phase of this process can be completed quickly and
help map out the entire job to make it go smoother.
Starting Construction
The start of the actual
build may be an exhilarating experience for you at first since your vision is
starting to become a reality; however, the entire process of having a
residential contractor and their crew build a new room onto your existing
structure is an involved process which causes a great deal of noise, disruption
and extra dust in the air. During this time, you can expect to have to clean a
little more often due to the dust and extra foot traffic in and around your
home, and if you or a family member has any respiratory problems, such as
asthma, you may experience more episodes while the crew is still working around
your home. If this is known ahead of time, you can make adjustments to your
schedule and, if necessary, make sure that any emergency medications, such as
inhalers, are handy and refilled. Additionally, knowing that you will have a
crew of workers in and out of your home for anywhere from a few days to a few
weeks ahead of time will help your patience level with the project and help you
have more reasonable expectations of the crew and your residential contractor, which
will make the project go smoother.
For more information
about a residential contractor in Cedar Grove NJ and home additions, call 973-857-9449 or
click on the provided link.
