Exterior work happens outside your life. Interior work happens inside it. The finished room matters, but so do the six weeks before it, and that part rarely gets discussed at the estimate.
Dust is the whole battle
Demolition dust travels through a house astonishingly fast and settles everywhere. A crew that seals the work area with proper barriers, covers the route in and out, and cleans daily makes the difference between an inconvenience and a nightmare.
Ask specifically how the work area will be sealed and how often the site gets cleaned. The answer tells you a lot about how the whole job will run.
Know who is actually in your house
On many renovations the crew changes constantly as subcontractors rotate through. If that matters to you, ask who will be on site day to day and whether it will be the same people. We run interior jobs with one small crew from demolition to final coat for exactly this reason.
Ask what happens to your utilities
- Will water or power be shut off, and for how long on which days?
- Which rooms are unusable, and for how long?
- Where will materials and tools be stored overnight?
- What time does the crew arrive and leave?
A contractor who can answer these without hesitating has run the job in their head already. One who waves them off has not.
Expect the schedule to move a little
Opening walls reveals things. Materials arrive late. What separates a good renovation from a bad one is not whether the schedule shifts, but whether you hear about it early and honestly. We would rather tell you about a two day delay on the day we learn about it than let you find out by turning up to an empty house.
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