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Hints and Tips
Refresh has extensive experience with a wide range of home renovations. Through our experience, we have managed to get together some useful hints and tips to help you through the renovation process. Select a category above that you would like some assistance on. You can't get everything onto a website though, so if you are interested in one of our friendly team members contacting you, please click here.
Refresh renovations has put together a simple planning checklist to help you prepare for your home renovations project, but one of our project managers would be more than happy to help you through this stage.
1. What sort of home renovations project are you planning?
(a Refresh renovations project manager can help you with this)
At this stage, it would be a good idea to decide:
- What do you want and what do you need (decide what sort of things are necessary for your renovation project and what would be nice to haves)
- Is their a deadline for this project? Do you know when you would like the home renovations project to begin or when you would like the renovation project completed, in stages or all at once
- Decide on a budget.
2. Get your concepts and designs down on paper
(a Refresh renovations project manager or designer could help you with this stage of your home improvement project if you like)
- Gathering together ideas, designs and your own thoughts to a scrapbook. This might be a physical book with written, printed and cut out ideas. Or for the modern world a collection of web links in a favourites file. This step can take as much or as little time as you like.
- Discuss your requirements with a Refresh renovations project manager or designer.
- Browse the list of brochures available for downloading from our help guides section.
- Decide on a final design.
3. Plan how to finance the home renovation project
- Is the final design within your budget?
- Have you planned how you will finance the home renovation project?
4. Getting on with the home renovation project
- Do you need a Building Consent? (Refresh renovations can advise you on this. If a Building Consent is required, we would not be able to begin the project until the building consent has been obtained. However, Refresh renovations will be happy to arrange the building permit for you.)
- Refresh renovations can work with you to prepare a home renovation project schedule, which will have a degree of leeway to allow for unforeseen delays such as weather or holidays.
- Secure the home renovations project with a deposit.
- Refresh renovations will then project manage the whole home renovations project, taking care of sourcing and supplying the materials and project managing the trades required to complete your home renovation project to your satisfaction.
