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Finding
A NJ Contractor |
With Americans spending about 198 billion on home remodeling projects,
finding the right contractor among the 235 thousand in this country
is mind-boggling to many New Jersey homeowners. Now if you’ve
got a full time job and busy family to manage, you certainly don’t
need the hassle of weeding out New Jersey contractors through the
time exhaustive interviews and reference checks. Unfortunately,
if you do go this route you’ll also have to repeat this scenario
for each project you want done from painting to construction. Don’t
forget about coordinating each of these different teams and ensuring
they can work together. With all this to consider, it’s no
wonder so many NJ home renovation projects turn into emotional
nightmares for homeowners.
That’s why it makes a lot of sense to go with a recognized
a full service NJ contracting company that does all the filtering
and coordinating for you. Otherwise you may find yourself throwing
away thousands of dollars and wasting countless hours.
But let’s back up a bit. How does the process usually work
when you want to find a New
Jersey contractor for your home renovation
project? The first step in any home renovation process is design.
If it’s a simple project like repainting your living room
that can mean just selecting color and texture, but if its something
more complicated like installing a Jacuzzi tub or removing a wall
between a living and dining room, you’ll need to meet with
an architect as well as a designer. (This is true whenever structural
changes are needed.)
Once you meet with a designer and architect, you’ll need
to gather some names of local NJ contractors for each segment of
the renovation. Don’t forget that you’ll need to make
sure all of these people—architect, designer, contractor,
electrician, plumber—can work together. Not all personalities
mesh and, sometimes, different NJ
contractors have different ideas
about how a project should be executed. Of course when those differences
are worked out on your dime, it can be frustrating.
But let’s say you’ve got a list of contractors
in New Jersey for each step. Maybe a neighbor built an addition last year
or your cousin’s sister-in-law added new siding two summers
ago. Maybe you simply thumbed through the Bergen County, NJ yellow
pages or googled “NJ
contractor” and picked the first
five sites that you saw. However you compiled it, you’ve
got your list. Now you need to call each of these contractors and
arrange a time to meet personally with every single one of them.
Next you need to ask for photos of recent work and, then, an estimate
or bid and wait—sometimes days, sometimes weeks—for
those bids to come in. Meanwhile you’ll also need to request
a list of references—aside from the friend who referred you
in the first place—and make sure you call each of these people
and ask specific questions about the NJ contractor’s workmanship,
timeliness, and final costs. (You’ll want to know if the
company finished two months late and $5,000 over budget or if after
selling you on the hip eco-friendly flooring the contractor couldn’t
supply the materials.)
Once you’ve selected what you think is the best NJ
contractor for the job, you then need to coordinate their work with the two
or three other plumbing, painting or electrical contractors you’ve
hired. Now imagine trying to do all of this while you’re
managing a busy work schedule and dropping the kids off at soccer
practice and you’ll see why so many people are so stressed
out. Well, the good news is that it doesn’t actually have
to be this way.
Finding a reliable
contractor in New Jersey for your home renovation project can be as simple as
stopping by MyHome’s Paramus
showroom. Our full service remodeling process takes the headache
out of what should be a fun process. At MyHome we’ll guide
you through the entire renovation process—from browsing color
swatches to making sure your design fits with your home’s
look to coordinating our in-house NJ renovation contractors and
ensuring the project is completed perfectly.
So call 800-730-0148 for a free consultation today and you just
might make it to that Pilates class all of your friends are raving
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