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Custom Home Remodeling with a General Contractor

By Garnet Greene | July 6, 2009
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When you hire a general contractor for you avoid the difficulties of finding and supervising a large team of workers.

In the eighties what could have been more stylish than sitting on your black leather couch, under your Nagel print, watching Dynasty? You couldn’t have been happier strolling into your kitchen for a snack and grabbing something to nosh on out of your sleek black cabinets, or cutting up vegetables on your beautiful pink tile countertop. When you switched off the TV at night you were delighted to go to sleep at night in your Southwestern-themed bedroom as the faux cow skulls, hanging on your wall, watched you fall asleep. You spent a small fortune remodeling your custom home and it showed.

Fast forward to today: you’re making excuses not to have anyone over to your home. Your children don’t bring anyone over and don’t understand why the kitchen looks like Darth Vader designed it, and the bedrooms and bathrooms look like sets from some antiquated dude-ranch movie.

When you think about changing your home, frankly it depresses you. Are you ready to have your home and family thrown into chaos? Can you stand to share a bathroom with your kids, or even worse let them use yours? Are you prepared to eat out for several months? Well, OK, you’d be happy to do that, but can you really stand collecting estimates from every guy with a tool belt in your town? Last time it took years to get your home just right. You shopped incessantly for drawer pulls, plastic cactuses, tiles in the perfect pink, and spent weeks designing your custom entertainment center to have room for your VHS tapes and your records. Sure you don’t need the same setup anymore, but the cat does like to sleep where the turntable used to be. The thought of taking on the whole project again is terrifying and you can’t deny it any longer: it’s time for with a general contractor.

What is With A General Contractor?

A general contractor oversees the work of a team of other workmen or subcontractors. A general contractor has assembled a group of trusted experts with specialties like: architecture, demolition, flooring, cabinet building, carpentry, plumbing, electrical and painting.

A general contractor specializes in servicing a more elite clientele: those who live in custom homes, as opposed to cookie-cutter track homes. A general contractor is prepared to work in any room of your house, be it your wine cellar, private theater, or your enormous walk-in closet. Their sub-contractors are also generally of a higher caliber. A general contractor is also familiar with the latest trends for high-end clients. They understand you may want heated flooring, glass tile accents, or a steam shower. They are prepared to offer you the finest in floors, cabinets, lighting and accessories. Whatever your current ideas are, a general contractor should elevate them to something extraordinary.

What are the Benefits of Hiring a General Contractor?

When you hire a general contractor for you avoid the difficulties of finding and supervising a large team of workers. The general contractor will be responsible for managing job costs, scheduling work, quality control and making sure that the total project is designed and executed in the best possible way.

Instead of you trying to juggle multiple workers, supervise them, and schedule them, the general contractor will do the job for you. Your input will be required to make design choices and, of course, write checks. An experienced professional general contractor should insulate you from the vast majority of issues and problems related to remodeling. If any problems arise with your remodeling project it’s the general contractor’s responsibility to fix them with minimal involvement from you.

What are the Risks of Hiring a General Contractor?

A good general contractor is a boon to a homeowner, a bad general contractor a real nightmare. Because a general contractor is responsible for multiple projects, if they fail to do their job they can create many problems as opposed to just one. For instance, if you hire a tile guy, and he makes a mess of your kitchen counters, or doesn’t complete the job at all, you can sue him and have someone else fix your tile. If you hire a general contractor, and he quits or fails to properly supervise his sub-contractors, you could have a mess in every room of your house. Before hiring a general contractor get multiple references, check with the Better Business Bureau, and if possible, get a verbal reference from the last homeowner they worked for.

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