Day: July 25, 2022

Before you consider building a custom home, ensure everything is in place. Most importantly, find a reputable home builder to handle the project. To a larger extent, the professional you hire determines the project’s success. For this reason, seek answers to the following crucial questions.

What Is the First Step in Your Building Process?

It is important to determine the experience level of the home builder to meet your expectations. The first steps they take will tell you more of what to expect during the project implementation. The best custom home builder will start by checking the lot size, your budget, your lifestyle, and the neighborhood before proceeding.

Are You Registered and Licensed to Operate?

With the many contractors and professionals providing home building services, making informed decisions can be hard. You need a home builder that can prove their professionalism and expertise. This is by showing you a legitimate registration document and license. You gain confidence in the services provided by a licensed contractor.

Will You Subcontractor the Project?

Commitment is an important quality to look for in a custom home builder. You want a contractor to handle the project from the beginning until it ends. You need to know if the home builder will subcontract or add more workers to the project. This will help you determine the financial aspects and other influencing factors.

How Long Will It Take to Build the Home?

An experienced custom home builder can estimate the timeframe and allow you to make proper plans. You need to create a schedule and handle other related factors without feeling pressured as a homeowner. Seek answers to this question when looking for a Naples FL custom home builder to create a sustainable budget for the project.

Can You Manage the Project?

While the primary reason is to access hands-on work from a home builder, your management efforts might determine the results. You need effective project management services to succeed. While hiring a project manager is an option, it can be costly. It will serve your interest to work with a home builder that offers project management services.

Choosing the right home builder is a step closer to success. The process can be hectic, with several things to keep in mind. By getting answers to the above questions, meeting your expectations is possible.…

Before You Call A Glass Repair Company

Maybe you’ve had a break-in. Maybe the kid who lives down the street tossed a wayward throw to home plate through your picture window. Or maybe you just closed it too hard and broke it yourself. In any case, you’ve got yourself a broken window, complete with dangling jagged shards and chunks of razor-sharp glass on the floor.

What do you do? You call a glass repair company. But before you do that, take a few minutes and gather some of the following information which will help expedite getting it repaired, hopefully the very same day.

What is the size of the broken window?

A major factor in same-day window repair is the size of the glass. A glass company employee won’t expect you to give them exact measurements over the phone, but will certainly ask you for a rough estimate. Find yourself a tape measure if you have one and (taking appropriate care, of course) measure both the height and the width. Measure only the glass surface you see (it’s what’s known as “daylight” in the glass repair business). Don’t have a tape measure or just can’t seem to find one when you need it? Use a sheet of typical copy paper – most are usually eleven inches long.

Knowing the rough size of the glass to be repaired will help avoid the glazier from having to return to the shop for a larger sheet.

Is the window single or double-pane?

Single-pane windows can usually be repaired that very same day, often on the spot. Double-pane (also referred to as thermal or insulated windows) are a different story. This type of window has to be custom-made and will usually have to be ordered by the glass company from their manufacturer. This can typically take anywhere from 5 to 10 working days.

Determining whether you have a single or double-pane window is a fairly simply endeavor regardless of how little knowledge of windows you have or how badly broken it is. At the edge of the glass wherever it meets the frame, look for a silver aluminum spacer anywhere from a 1/4 inch thick to 3/4 inch thick. The presence of this silver spacer almost certainly indicates a double-pane window.

If it is a double-pane window, are both panes broken or just one?

If both panes of a double-pane window are broken it will have to be boarded. If, however, only one pane is broken it can often be left in place without having to board it. Be sure to let the glass company know in advance if it’s just one pane that’s broken or both.

Is the broken glass in a door?

If so, it will have to be replaced with either tempered or laminated safety glass, even if there is ordinary plate glass in it now. Tempered safety glass must be ordered and typically takes a week or two to get, but laminated safety glass can be cut to size the …