Top Tips When You Have the Builders In

If you’re starting the new year with a long awaited building project, you need to be ready for chaos and disruption to enter your life. Even the most tidy and solicitous of building firms can’t help but create mess and the risk of breakages runs unfortunately high. Despite this, it’s in your interests to maintain a good relationship with your builders and not allow your worries about your home to spill over into irritation.

Today we’re presenting you a few tips to make sure your experience with builders isn’t too traumatic, and leaves you with a successful project completed and a great relationship with great builders you can happily recommend or hire again.

Picking the Right Firm

When you’re beginning to plan your building work, you need to find the right firm for the job. There’s more factors to take into account than just the price. Think about the kind of work you’re having done: it’s worth paying a little more to find a firm that specialises in that work. They’ll have better access to the materials and specialists that’ll get the job done to a high standard on time.

Try looking for personal recommendations as well: if you don’t have friends who’ve had similar work done, ask the builders you’re shortlisting if you can see examples of their work. If you’re planning a ground floor extension ask if they’ve completed any similar extensions in your local area you could possibly view. At the same time you can ask the occupants about how the builder’s conducted themselves: did they arrive on time? Was the work done on time?

Clearing Space

Rather than panicking about mess and breakages, it’s worth your time to clear about the part of your house the builders are working on, and some of the access routes they’ll be using. This gives them a clearer canvas, makes it’s easier to bring materials in, and avoids precious items being scuffed, scarred and covered in dust.

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