Tips When Remodeling Your Home

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Encouragement Press, LLC, 2006 - House & Home - 214 pages
Covers the various myths and realities of building and remodelling. This book shows how to budget and plan your remodelling project and how to stick to it. It helps you with things such as choosing a contractor, dealing with problems and managing fraud, licenses, lawyers, bonding, budgeting, buying and event the kids and the pets in the mess.
 

Contents

Chapter
9
Chapter
12
Getting the Financing You Need
15
Chapter
31
Chapter
46
Sample Contractor Agreement
47
Warranties on Work and Materials
51
Chapter
65
Chapter
97
Chapter
111
Windows and Lighting
123
Chapter
139
Chapter
155
Chapter
171
Handling Stress During Remodeling
187
Chapter
203

The Pros and Cons
79

Common terms and phrases

About the author (2006)

William Resch is Senior Project Manager and Chief Designer at Highland Park Millwork-an 80-year-old high-end architectural millwork company located in Highland Park, Illinois. He has been in the general contracting and millwork industries for more than 20 years, specializing in upper-tier residential renovation and millwork. Married with two children, he lives in Chicago.

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