How to Survive a Major Remodeling Project
Host:
This is the Home Remodeling Show, brought to you by Edge Construction. You can find them online at EdgeConstructionCompany.com. That is all one word, Edge Construction Company dot com.
It is a great website to learn more about Edge Construction. They are also regularly updating it, so if you have not been by the website recently, check them out at EdgeConstructionCompany.com.
There are also some very important links there: Pinterest, Facebook, and Houzz. If you have been thinking about doing some remodeling, EdgeConstructionCompany.com and the link to Houzz are a great way to get some ideas.
Their telephone number is 608-636-3343. That number is 636-EDGE.
Joining us in studio this week is the owner of Edge Construction, Mr. Mike Twohig. Mike, welcome to the program.
Mike:
Good to see you.
Host:
That was a weird setup on my part. I apologize.
We were just talking about some work you have going on, including pouring concrete and that type of thing. This is good weather for that.
Mike:
Yeah, I cannot complain about that.
Host:
With things like pouring foundations, you mentioned the weather. Is this the time of year when folks are thinking about new projects? Or do we usually think of spring for that?
Mike:
Are you talking from a planning perspective?
Host:
Yes.
Mike:
Then this is when you should be planning for spring projects.
It takes quite a while to get things into motion. It is surprising how many people call, or have us come out and look at their job, and they want to do a bigger remodel but are just at the very beginning of the planning process.
That is an important time for a homeowner. You want a remodeler to work with you who is not rushing you through the process or saying, “Hey, we need to get this into action fast.”
There are four or five steps you have to go through to get to the end of the design process for those major remodels. You want to take your time.
I always call it reaction time. If we come up with an idea, you take that home, sit with it on the couch, and let it rattle around for a while.
Some people say, “That makes sense,” and we can move to the next thing. Most people, and I am like this too, need time. Maybe I do not trust my first reactions. I want to think about it for a while.
Host:
You mentioned giving things time and working through the plans.
This week, we are going to talk about how a contractor treats your house, some ways to survive a major remodeling project, and the importance of things like dust control.
That is during the project itself. But when thinking toward spring, and you mentioned this is a good time to start that conversation, the next few months are a great time to be planning for that remodel.
Mike:
It is.
If you want to do a bigger project — maybe an addition or something major on a house — not everyone in town is capable of doing those jobs or has the horsepower to do them.
We do three, maybe four, a year. They tend to be spaced out, or we just cannot do them. I do not want to overload our people. I do not want to disappoint a homeowner.
So we will have a March or April project, and that means the planning for that probably starts now, or it might already be ongoing. Then those projects fall in line every two or three months.
If a homeowner really wants to get something going and keep it on the rails, a lot of surviving a project is getting in the right mindset and knowing what you are supposed to do.
It does not just fall on the remodeler. There is a lot of responsibility for homeowners too. People like us will point you in the right direction. We are going to give you some jobs to do.
But preparing and planning is a big deal.
Host:
Let’s get into that preparation and planning.
You mentioned that you do not want to feel rushed. It is probably a bad sign if somebody is trying to push you to start and push to get going.
You really want to have a plan in place. A remodeling project is a major undertaking.
Let’s talk about some of the planning that goes into it. Somebody decides they want to remodel. You come out and do a site survey, or whatever the term is, and see firsthand what the plan is.
Mike:
In the ideal situation, when we come out for that first visit, the homeowner says, “I have a list of things we want to do.”
You do not have to do that, by the way. I do not expect that from everybody.
But when we pull in and someone has a list, that is great.
More often than not, we are building that list while we are there, and we are okay with that. We are going to go through it, make our own list, and add some things.
A lot of times, people with a list are asking, “What are the possibilities? We know we want to do this stuff, but we do not even know if it is possible or if it makes sense from a construction standpoint.”
Sometimes you can put too much money into a house and outgrow the neighborhood, although I think that thinking is a little outdated now.
If you look at the projects happening around the area, house values have come up enough that it is worth investing in these homes. We are seeing houses leap ahead in neighborhoods, and I think that is healthy too.
Host:
You mentioned Dane County and southern Wisconsin. Nationally, too, we are seeing housing values rise, and it can be worth putting that money into the home.
When it comes to choosing somebody to work with for remodeling, sometimes we overlook the importance of the little things. How does the contractor actually treat your house? How does the relationship between you and the contractor work?
Also, what is the plan for how this project is going to be executed? How will the house be left each day? What happens during the project? How do we decide what is completed and what is not?
These are important conversations to have up front, aren’t they?
Mike:
They are.
At the idea stage, things are spread out.
The endgame of design is to narrow everything down to one point where we have a super accurate contract. The homeowner knows what they are getting in that contract. They know exactly what it is going to cost. On the builder side, we know exactly what our job is and what we have to deliver.
That is the goal.
But at the idea stage, things are spread out. It is chaotic, and you need to start corralling those things.
It does not start with picking out tile, cabinets, and countertops. It starts with the footprint and the top-down look in CAD, or computer-aided design.
Then we can look at the elements that have to make it into the remodel and how we arrange them. We start doing things, and it moves toward making sense. It moves toward an organized, structured contract at the end of design.
Host:
When we think about doing a remodel, certain spaces around the house can be especially disruptive.
I think of the kitchen, for example. Or if your house has one main bathroom and you are remodeling it, you need to have that conversation up front.
How are you going to eat? How are you going to take a shower? How are you going to access certain areas?
That is an important part of the conversation too.
Mike:
It is.
At the planning stage, all that stuff needs to be talked about.
Those are logistics things. How do we treat the house? Where are we going to take things?
Madison proper has a ton of small houses built with one bathroom. Luckily, about half of those have a random toilet in the basement.
Host:
We have talked about that before. Is it a Pittsburgh potty?
Mike:
I think that is the only good thing to come out of Pittsburgh.
You are aware of this, right?
Host:
Oh yeah.
Mike:
Did your house ever have one?
Host:
We have never had one, but I have been to a number of houses that did. As a kid, I was always jealous.
I researched this, actually. My understanding is that on the East Coast, coal miners and other miners would come home through a side door or cellar door. They could clean up, do their business, and then go upstairs to the family.
When you talk about that stuff, I am guessing a lot of wives and children said, “Do not come in all sooty.”
Mike:
And then here in Wisconsin, farmers and others.
Host:
Exactly.
Mike:
The white-collar crowd in Madison thinks they are eclectic and cool.
They are super handy when we are going to remodel your house, especially if you have one bathroom. You can go to the gym and take a shower, but you do not want to run to an outhouse in the backyard.
Host:
Speaking of logistics, even understanding the site visit and what the house looks like is important.
There is also the logistics of garbage and waste being created. Are you going to use a dumpster? How is the dumpster going to be handled?
I know for you, a dumpster is a last resort.
Mike:
That is a personal thing for me.
If you see a remodel going on in your neighborhood, chances are you are going to see a big dumpster sitting there for three or four months, six months, or whatever.
I have always thought it is tacky to leave that there. A lot of times, it has to be there for the heavy lifting.
Some neighborhoods just do not have room for that. Many times, we have to get a street permit and put a dumpster on the street for a few days, a week, or maybe a couple of weeks.
Ideally, if we can get one there on a bigger project through mechanicals, on a really big project that might be a month.
After that, we start hauling things back. We bring cans. We have dumpsters at our shop. We bring the trash back. Our people are there almost every day anyway.
Or we bring a dump trailer, which is one of those fun tools to have. That is one advantage of this job — you get to have some neat stuff.
A dump trailer is like a dumpster on wheels. We can pull it in there for a day if we need it, and then it is gone. It is not taking up valuable parking, and your neighbors are not looking at it and thinking, “That is really nice.”
There are a lot of advantages to getting the dumpster out of there.
Host:
That is part of how your contractor treats your home — not just the project in the home itself, but having a plan for where things go.
If you need to bring in a dumpster, especially during demo, where is it going to go? How long will it be there? After that point, how will the construction waste be handled?
Nobody likes that ugly dumpster outside their home any longer than necessary.
Mike:
It is a big deal.
Occasionally, because we do this show, I get calls from homeowners who did not use us — shame on you — and they ask, “How should my house be treated?”
Sometimes it is something they did not talk about.
As a homeowner, I would think the trash is the least of my worries. But the average time to budget on our side is about 15 percent of your labor budget for cleaning up and dealing with trash.
There is so much dust, so much trash, and so many things to protect. It has to be ongoing.
Our people know they are supposed to clean up at the end of the day. I would love to say they do this 100 percent of the time. Maybe it is 99 percent. They know they are supposed to grab things and bring them back.
Human error wiggles in there once in a while, but that is the plan.
Host:
As the day goes on, are they doing things like running shop vacs?
Cleaning up as the day goes on and at the end of each day is considerate. I do not know that every contractor does that.
Mike:
The tough part about remodeling is that you are working among somebody’s living space.
If I am tearing out drywall over here and then walking to a different part of the house, a certain percentage of that drywall is going to follow me over there.
The best way to do it is to clean up as you go.
I make that case to our people. If you clean it up as you go, you get to work in a clean space too.
You do not have to kneel down on screws. We have had people kneel down on screws, and that ends up being a workers’ comp issue. It hurts, and worse than that, you are possibly off work.
So there is a lot of incentive to clean up.
Host:
We are going to talk later in the program about dust control. It seems like very tiny particles, but it is an important part of the remodeling process.
We will get into that with Mike in just a moment. We will also talk about what to expect when you have folks in your home doing remodeling and what you need to understand there.
This week, it is all about surviving a major remodeling project — or a minor one, for that matter. I am going to guess that at the end of the day, no matter how small the project is, for the homeowner, it always feels major. For good reason.
It is great that they treat it that way at Edge Construction.
You can learn more about Edge Construction online at EdgeConstructionCompany.com. That is all one word, Edge Construction Company dot com.
Their telephone number is 608-636-3343. That number is 636-EDGE.
Edge Construction brings you the Home Remodeling Show right here on 1310 WIBA.
Host:
This is the Home Remodeling Show, brought to you by Edge Construction. You can find them online at EdgeConstructionCompany.com. That is all one word, Edge Construction Company dot com.
It is a great website and resource if you want to learn more about Edge Construction.
If you have not checked back recently, definitely check it out. They are always updating EdgeConstructionCompany.com.
There are also fantastic links to Pinterest, Facebook, and Houzz. Those are great places to look if you are thinking about remodeling and want some ideas.
Their telephone number is 608-636-3343. That number is 636-EDGE.
We are talking this week about how to survive a major remodeling project.
Mike, we talked about the Pittsburgh potty earlier and planning for that. That is a question when it comes to having contractors in the house.
Is the bathroom going to be used? Is it not going to be used? How is that accessed?
That is a weird conversation, but it does need to be talked about.
Mike:
We have such nice homeowners, and almost all of them will say, “Use the bathroom if you need to.”
They are very gracious.
But what our people’s response is supposed to be is, “No, that is okay. We do not do that.”
I know a special relationship sometimes forms between the people on the job and the homeowner, and they start to feel like family a little bit. That is fine. I get it.
But as a rule, I do not think people working in your house should be using your bathroom. They should not be going into unremodeled space unless they have to for mechanical reasons or something similar.
I think that is a good philosophy.
On bigger jobs, especially if the homeowner is not living there or things are not accessible, we will put a portable toilet out in the yard. I know it is not fun to look at, but at least it is convenient for all the trades to use.
If you are walking the dog and really have to go, you know.
But that is my philosophy.
I have heard every horror story in the world. We have had people call and say, “We are using another company, and their guys always dry their hands on our nice hand towels,” or whatever else.
It is just bad form. I do not like it, and I would rather not see it happen.
Host:
What about planning for access?
When it comes to a remodel, there will be a number of people doing the work. As a homeowner, you do not want it to be a free-for-all. You want to know who is coming and going.
That is another important conversation.
Mike:
It is.
We are very schedule-driven, and homeowners are not shy about reaching out and asking, “Is somebody coming to my house tomorrow?” or “Is somebody coming today?”
We try to accommodate them.
We do have schedule changes here and there where somebody might show up when you did not know. That kind of thing sometimes has to happen to keep the job moving. We have to offer some flexibility to our people.
For access, a lot of people will just change their garage code, and then we can come through there. Or we use a lockbox on the front of the house.
When you come into one of our jobs, you are going to see floor protection down.
If you are a plumber who is not a direct employee of ours and you come in and see there is no floor protection, you went in the wrong door. You need to go in the door where the floor protection is.
We are conscious of that, and we talk about it in the contract with homeowners. We try to work through it so they know what is going on.
A lot of times, the floor protection is the demarcation zone. If you want to go somewhere and there is no floor protection, you better call and ask somebody because that is probably not part of the construction area.
We do other things too. We put up temporary walls, like plastic walls or zip walls. It is a fabric wall with a zipper you can open to get through.
It depends on what stage of the remodel we are in.
If it is the first third, where there is a lot of hot-and-heavy work going on and dust being made, we will have a lot of protection up.
If we are near the finish end, where there is not much dust and we are probably cutting outside, it is much more convenient for homeowners not to have the zip walls and plastic walls up. But you still have the floor protection.
Host:
What is that floor protection? Is it like a roll? Am I seeing this right? Do you roll it out almost like a red carpet?
Mike:
It is. It is great stuff.
I am not saying you can put it over your wood floor and drop a truck on it. It will telegraph through.
But it saves the minor accidents. It has a few jobs.
One of those is showing where the construction area is. A lot of it is also easier to clean up than the floor underneath. We do not want sawdust going into your carpet, so we cover that up.
If a new wood floor goes in, we will cover it with this stuff. It is kind of fibrous, and it breathes. If you put a sheet of plastic over a wood floor, something that is not permeable at all, you can damage the wood floor. It can trap moisture.
This stuff does not do that. It protects, and it is permeable. It has a lot of positives.
Host:
I had never thought much about it, but I knew Mike was not just throwing down sheets. This is very specific.
Mike:
It is also pretty tough stuff.
When we put down a new floor in your house, we are probably putting a bunch of this stuff down to protect it until the end of the job.
When we roll it back up, it transitions to the demo side. We use it during demo too, and it protects again. So we get at least two uses out of it, which is really nice.
Host:
That is really cool to hear.
We are talking this morning with Mike Twohig of Edge Construction. You can find them online at EdgeConstructionCompany.com. That is Edge Construction Company dot com.
You heard the word dust come up a couple of times. We are going to talk about the importance of dust control, how that is handled with Edge Construction, why it is such an important part of planning, and why it is such an important part of a successful remodeling project.
We will get the details from Mike next as the Home Remodeling Show with Edge Construction continues right here on 1310 WIBA.
Host:
This is the Home Remodeling Show, brought to you by Edge Construction. You can find them online at EdgeConstructionCompany.com. That is all one word, Edge Construction Company dot com.
If you have not been over there yet, now is the time. Their telephone number is 608-636-3343. That number is 636-EDGE.
We are talking about how to survive a major remodeling project, the importance of planning and preparing, and understanding what goes into a remodeling project.
That is an important conversation to have early and often with your remodeler: understanding where things are going and how things are working.
You have probably heard us mention dust a couple of times during the program. Sure, we all know what dust is, but when you are doing a remodeling project, a lot of dust is created.
Mike:
I have the miracle cure for dust.
Host:
What is that?
Mike:
No, I do not.
Host:
I was going to say, do you know something I do not?
I know you have a lot of equipment and systems in place to mitigate dust. Dust control is huge with any remodel, isn’t it?
Mike:
It is.
But we will never say we can control it all. There is a level of minute dust that seems to make it everywhere.
For the most part, we have had homeowners who are very thankful for the level we go to in trying to control it.
When I check jobs and talk to homeowners, I think the thing that surprises them the most is how much our guys clean up and how much they are trying to make it less impactful on daily life.
You are expecting total chaos, but instead it is organized chaos.
How do we control it? How do we treat the space? What changes in that construction area?
If we are making dust that is going throughout your house, you are going to be pretty annoyed, especially if you clean up one day and the next day it is back in the non-construction areas.
It also means something else: some of our people are younger, and some are not so young. We do not want them taking this home to their families. We do not want them breathing it while they are on the job.
Some of it is expected, but we can do a lot to enhance the experience for everyone working there and for the homeowners.
The side benefit is that hopefully we do not send that mess to the rest of your house, at least not all of it.
We have air scrubbers. Most of the time, when something is happening on your job and a mess is being created, you are going to see one of these running.
An air scrubber looks like a little red box, maybe a foot and a half by a foot and a half by a foot and a half. It has a two-stage filter. There is a furnace filter on the outside as a pre-filter, and then it has a HEPA filter that costs several hundred dollars. Surprisingly, they do not have to be replaced often. They work really well.
The air coming out of that air scrubber is probably going to be cleaner than your normal inside air. It cleans down to a tiny level, about cigarette smoke level, though that probably is not a good reference anymore.
That is our plan.
It does not logistically always work because every house is different. But if we were working in this room we are in now, we would have an air scrubber. If we were doing heavy demo, we would pipe that thing out and basically try to create negative pressure in this room.
It is like taking a fan and blowing it out the door, sealing it, and blowing through a hole in the door. In theory, that keeps dust from going a long distance away from the room. We are trying to keep it here, if nothing else.
Host:
Dust travels quite a bit.
Mike:
It is very naughty.
You hear stories of volcanoes exploding on another continent and dust coming down. It makes its way around.
Host:
Are there different areas or points of collection?
I think of some tools I have had over the years, like saws with little bags on them. Is that something as well? I would guess that not only helps keep dust down, but also helps with cleanup.
Mike:
There are systems for that.
A lot of our inside workers and trim carpenters will have a vacuum setup. You can get these now where there is a hose to the back of your saw, and when you push the button on the saw and the saw starts, the vacuum starts too.
I have one in my home shop and one in our shop at the showroom.
It is really great because, like I said, we control the dust, but homeowners are not the only ones who get annoyed by this. You have pets and kids. There are a lot of things you do not want to breathe.
We talk about some of the big things like asbestos or lead, but really, nothing but clean air should be coming into your body. So the air scrubbers can really help.
Host:
Pretty amazing stuff.
I sometimes see plans online for people who have wood shops. I do not have a wood shop at home, but I am always jealous of those systems where all the tools connect to dust collection and there is a vortex in the middle.
Along the lines of dust and particle control, we think of the big things like asbestos and lead. Those are things you want to restrict, but there is also more to it.
Those are specialized and regulated as far as how they are handled, aren’t they?
Mike:
The rules are not loose, but they are kind of loosely regulated.
We have found our best path is that when we run into something like that, or anything else nasty, there are companies geared to do that. They can come in and demo it very quickly.
It used to be a scary thing for a homeowner to find out they had asbestos in their house. You might think it was going to cost $10,000 or $20,000 to get rid of that asbestos floor.
Now they come in at a much lower price, and it is often a one-day operation. It is not really invasive, and it is not as expensive as you might think.
It is priced where homeowners say, “I want that stuff out of here, and that seems like what it should cost.”
Madison has a full complement of companies that do that work, and we work with several.
Host:
Do homeowners ask about what happens to this stuff after it has been collected?
With bigger stuff, like cabinets that are still usable, can they be recycled or reused? What about some of the smaller stuff? Do people ask where it is going or how it is treated?
Mike:
Most people want to know what is going to happen with the things coming out of the house.
There is a lot we can take to Habitat. Occasionally, we have people in need where we will say, “If you come into a kitchen that still has life left and you think it might work for us, please let us know.”
We love to divert things that can be reused.
There are also a lot of things that cannot be reused. Dane County does recycle construction materials. A lot of people do not know this, but when we take our trailer and dump there, it gets put into a separate area that does not get buried.
It runs through a massive chopping machine. I am going to make up stuff now, but it grinds everything up. There are magnets that pull the metal out, and that gets recycled. The wood goes somewhere else. I think it gets blown off the conveyor, believe it or not. Drywall, cement, and all that stuff gets pulled off and recycled.
But if something still has use in it, we definitely do not want to throw it away.
Host:
Let’s talk about repurposing things.
If you are doing a kitchen remodel and still like your cabinets, could they be repurposed for a laundry room or garage? That is a nice way to handle some of that material.
Mike:
It is.
A lot of people do that, and it is a really good idea if there is life left in the material.
There are plenty of times where we pull things apart and realize they have used every last inch of it, and it has to go.
But generally, there are things people want to keep, or neighbors and friends might want them.
I would say about half the appliances we pull out of kitchens may not stay at that house, but the homeowner probably knows someone who wants the fridge for the basement, or whose dishwasher went down, or something like that.
Host:
Bringing it back to dust, there are different stages of a project. Are there different levels of air scrubbing depending on the stage?
Mike:
Yes.
The most risk and the most problems are up front.
By the time we get to the finish end, even our drywall sander is much better. We have a drywall sander that works great. It is on a pole, it is powered, and it is hooked up to a vacuum.
Sanding drywall used to be such a nasty, dusty job. I never looked forward to that. But with this machine, you are standing there and not getting drywall dust coming down on your head, dirtying up the floor, and going everywhere.
Different stages require different things.
By the time we get to that point, the little red air scrubber is probably not going to be turned on quite as much. It is still there in case we have to do something, because who knows what comes up on that job.
And by the way, do not discount that little red box. It moves an amazing amount of air. It is a very strong fan. It is tiny but mighty, and it has been a game changer for us.
Host:
I have to ask about noise mitigation.
Construction equipment makes noise. I have to guess that is an important conversation. Coordination is probably one of the best ways to avoid noise — not being there at 6 a.m., for example.
Is that part of the discussion?
Mike:
It is.
There are times where we can really control it, and there are times where you just have to grin and bear it.
One of the bigger jobs we did last year — or maybe it finished this year — was a project where we tore the roof off a house and went up and out with an addition.
We talked hard with the neighbors because we said, “Our outside crews, our framing crews, start at seven. They are going to work extremely hard for the first week or two. It is not going to be fun. You are going to be getting up with them because you do not have a choice. It is going to be loud, but then we are going to get out of here.”
We are trying to shorten it up.
We have had people who were pretty nervous about that up front. But by the time they saw the guys and saw how it was working, they were okay. We got through it.
It is good to have that discussion with your neighbors too. It is a nice thing to do.
Host:
Not only surviving your own remodel, but also helping your neighbors survive.
Mike:
They might be next, so do not be too tough on them.
Host:
We are talking this morning with Mike Twohig, owner of Edge Construction. The website is EdgeConstructionCompany.com. That is all one word, Edge Construction Company dot com.
Their telephone number is 608-636-3343. That number is 636-EDGE.
We will take it down the home stretch next as the Home Remodeling Show with Edge Construction continues right here on 1310 WIBA.
Host:
This is the Home Remodeling Show, brought to you by Edge Construction. You can find them online at EdgeConstructionCompany.com. That is Edge Construction Company dot com.
If you are thinking about doing some remodeling, they would love to talk with you. Call 608-636-3343. That number is 636-EDGE.
We are talking about surviving a major remodeling project.
The terms “plan” and “prepare” have come up many times. I know from working with you over the years that having a solid plan in place helps make the project enjoyable and gives everybody a good guide.
Let’s talk about change orders.
Mike:
What is your view of a change order? If you are a homeowner, when you hear that term, does it make you nervous?
Host:
Yes. Although because I do this show with you, I probably have some inside info.
Let’s talk about what they are and how they can be mitigated.
Mike:
A change order is a tricky thing from my perspective.
You started off talking about planning and preparation. If your job takes too long, it goes back to planning and preparation. If it did not turn out the way you wanted, or you thought you were getting something different, that also goes back to planning and preparation. Maybe you did not have an accurate contract.
Trust but verify. That is the whole thing.
Change orders are part of that too.
A great question for a remodeler is: How do you do change orders? How many do you typically have on a kitchen remodel?
There are remodelers who love change orders because it is a chance to add to the contract and add dollars to the contract. It generally comes at a premium.
If you are going to do a $100 job during the contract, you get it for $100. If it happens later in the process and requires a change order, there is usually a multiplier. Something normal might be 30, 40, or 50 percent. I think ours is 25 percent.
Change orders on my side are not a good deal. They probably mean we did not do our job up front.
In some cases, on a bigger job, there are things that slip through the cracks, so I do not want to make it sound like it is an evil thing. But we are not a company that wants to write 10 or 15 change orders on a contract.
If we have a big job, a normal number for us might be two, three, or four. Generally, they are things that were optioned before, but at the time the homeowner was not comfortable doing them. Then maybe something changed in their life or financial life, and they were able to do it, so it gets added.
However they happen, they should not be major things.
It is like the TV thing, where they find something in the wall. A lot of builders on TV seem to find something in the wall that magically always costs $10,000 or $20,000.
I think that is unethical, and it is also pretty hard for homeowners to plan for.
You need to find out your remodeler’s philosophy on change orders.
Host:
Have you seen Beverly Hills Cop II?
When Axel Foley rolls up to that mansion they are working on and says, “These blueprints are all wrong,” and says they want this and this, and somebody says, “They want to live in a donut?” And he says, “Yeah, they want to live in a donut.”
Every time you bring up change orders, that is what I think of — people suddenly changing everything.
That is why it is so important to work with a contractor, have a great relationship, and have a good contract. That makes everything move smoothly.
As we talk about surviving a major remodel, or even a minor remodel, if you are the homeowner, it feels like a big deal. You want to make sure all of this is worked out beforehand.
That is one of the great things about working with Edge Construction: working through that process and getting these things taken care of so when it comes time to get your project underway, everybody knows what they are doing.
You can learn more online at EdgeConstructionCompany.com. That is Edge Construction Company dot com.
Pick up the phone and call 608-636-3343. That number is 636-EDGE.
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