Sunday, March 18, 2012

Should I Hire A Builder To Refurbish My Kitchen?

By Owen Jones


When you want to have your kitchen refurbished, the question arises whether you get a contractor to do the renovating for you or whether you do the work yourself. This should be an easy question to answer. If you do not have the skills to do the work, let a professional builder do the work. Professional builders make such renovation look simple, but that is because they do it every week of their lives.

If you want a proper job done on your kitchen, you should not use your own kitchen to practice on. Builders have studied under their older colleagues before they started doing anything alone. There may not be any apprenticeships any more, but the younger workers still learn from their more experienced co-workers.

Builders are expensive, it is true, but why should they be cheap? You will pay for your kitchen once and enjoy it for ten years or more. Professional builders will do a near perfect job and if the result is unacceptable to you, you will have the right to complain and probably have it put right. This is because genuine contractors have to deliver an acceptable standard of work or they can be taken to court.

The time element is an important factor when considering hiring contractors. Having done this work for several or even many years, they will know exactly what they are doing. They will not have to waste much time working things out. They will have come across most circumstances or complications before. This means that the job will get done much more quickly.

This may not sound important to you right now, but there are thousands of people around the country who dread going home every day because the kitchen is like a bomb site and has been for months because someone in the house has under estimated the issues involved in remodelling or over estimated how much skill at building they possessed.

This always leads to arguments and nagging and normally a contractor is called in eventually to pick up the pieces and just get the job finished as soon as possible. By the time they get to this stage, frequently the money has run out and they end up with a less than ideal kitchen. Sometimes worse than when they started out.

The safety side is very important too. A professional will leave your kitchen in a safe state when he or she goes home at the end of the day. There will be no naked live wires or broken plugs to contend with and the floor will not be like an obstacle course for you to negotiate every time you want a cup of tea. Apart from this, you or your DIY partner will not have to climb ladders, use power tools or hack off old materials with a five pound lump hammer and a bolster. This is a very real advantage.

The outlay can be worrying, but a project such as renovating your kitchen will increase the value of your property and raise your quality of life. If need be, perhaps your mortgage provider would give you a small loan, once they have seen your kitchen renovation plans and the builder's quote.




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