Hiring a Contractor to Build your Home
Hiring a Contractor
to Build your Home
You have prepared the house
plans, drawn up your budget and have a clear vision of your dream home in your
head. The final key to it all is the contractors, who can turn your
dream into reality or it could become a nightmare and have you tearing your
hair out and incurring extra costs.
When hiring a contractor, you
should get recommendations from friends. Once you have hired the
contractor, have a checklist on what you expect him to model or structure your
house plans and set deadlines. Write a checklist before your
contractor begins to work and get him to sign it. Tick off each
stage after its completion and this keep the contractor on his
toes.
A checklist will ensure that the
contractor is getting the job done according to specification. If
you don’t write it out, the contractor will twist and turn his words and say
that you didn’t specify.
Another point to remember is that
if you don’t have an interior designer supervising your house plans, you may
need to make surprise visits. Be present when work is being carried
out on your home. If you are not there to supervise, the contractor
will also skimp on the work or won’t give you what you have
requested. Some house plans that go unsupervised can give you a
headache because once it is done wrongly, it will be difficult to
rectify.
An interior designer is good for
those who are unable to supervise their home renovations. You are
paying a small portion of your total house plans cost for the interior designer
to supervise the contractor.
You also can use the services of
a project management company. With the exception of building the
home itself, the project managers have very similar job functions as an
interior designer. They coordinate the schedule for the contractors
to come and work on the different segments of the home. They
organize the sequence of the home modeling process, like wiring, painting and
tiling. Therefore, if you don’t have the experience in handling
these things, you should get someone to do it for you as it takes a lot of
coordinating.
However, if you have the time,
you can save money by doing the supervision yourself. You can get
house plan ideas from magazines, speaking to friends and visiting their homes
and planning in detail what you want to be done. The toughest part
is coordinating the contractors and their schedules.
The payment of contractors should
be done in stages, upon completion of projects. There are times when
the contractors will ask you for money in advance to buy
materials. The contractors might make off with your money or buy
materials of inferior quality when working on your home. Contractors
are also known for asking payment at each modeling.
Make sure that you get receipts
for all payments. You may also want to take note of the language the
receipt is being issued in. Make sure you can understand it in case
you need to use the receipts for verification later on.
Another common practice that you
can adopt is withholding a portion of the amount payable to the
contractor. This method is seen as a means of guaranteeing that the
contractor will do a decent job on your house plans. The amount you
withhold can be agreed upon with your contractor before you begin modeling.
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