Beginning a D-I-Y renovation project always seems like a smart idea in the planning period, but in practice it's often a very dissimilar story.
While thinking about your completed home extension or new outside living space and planning the last touches can make you thrilled about the future, really carrying out a home re-building can have you seriously querying your call meanwhile.
"What can be so much trouble?" I hear all you newbie renovators ask.
Let's start from the beginning, shall we?
Arranging a home extension or renovation calls for the building to start with nothing, which means removing whatever is presently existing and clearing your land to build new foundations.
To make things easier, I advise employing aid from a pro.
Forget hiring machinery and giving it a go yourself "clearing the land, digging trenches and laying foundations safely, safely and meticulously is not a task for the faint-hearted or those lacking focus on detail.
Once the land is cleared and the foundations are laid, it's time to start building.
Unless you've completed a trade qualification or received a crash course in woodworking by one of your pals, it is definitely worth getting some trained advice and support when putting together the pieces of your new living space.
If you're sufficiently lucky to have the heavens smile on you you might actually be in a position to get the basics completed in two long, hard working days, but if the sky open up and unharness its watery fury, this stage of the rebuilding could plague you for weeks.
Think holes filled up with water as quickly as they're dug, think mud up to your knees, think sinking foundations and muddy interiors.
Say goodbye to weekends, evening and sleep-ins, and kiss your clean house farewell.
Still thinking of renovating? Think again.
While thinking about your completed home extension or new outside living space and planning the last touches can make you thrilled about the future, really carrying out a home re-building can have you seriously querying your call meanwhile.
"What can be so much trouble?" I hear all you newbie renovators ask.
Let's start from the beginning, shall we?
Arranging a home extension or renovation calls for the building to start with nothing, which means removing whatever is presently existing and clearing your land to build new foundations.
To make things easier, I advise employing aid from a pro.
Forget hiring machinery and giving it a go yourself "clearing the land, digging trenches and laying foundations safely, safely and meticulously is not a task for the faint-hearted or those lacking focus on detail.
Once the land is cleared and the foundations are laid, it's time to start building.
Unless you've completed a trade qualification or received a crash course in woodworking by one of your pals, it is definitely worth getting some trained advice and support when putting together the pieces of your new living space.
If you're sufficiently lucky to have the heavens smile on you you might actually be in a position to get the basics completed in two long, hard working days, but if the sky open up and unharness its watery fury, this stage of the rebuilding could plague you for weeks.
Think holes filled up with water as quickly as they're dug, think mud up to your knees, think sinking foundations and muddy interiors.
Say goodbye to weekends, evening and sleep-ins, and kiss your clean house farewell.
Still thinking of renovating? Think again.
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