If you are considering doing some home/office or guesthouse renovations in 2025, now is the time to begin to plan. Before you go away or while you are on holiday there are a few things you can do to get the ball rolling – or at least schedule to do as soon as you get home.
This is a 2 part article, the first of which will look at primary steps to renovation preparations – and the second part will include actually preparing the living or workspace, as well as the people affected by the renovations.
The type of renovations we are talking about here are things like replacing floors, carpets, blinds and shutters or even outdoor renovations like adding wooded decking, awnings or artificial lawn – all the types of things that Libra Flooring supplies and has expertise in installing.
Full-on building renovations are a little different but you will find that a lot of the preparations are the same. So, in essence, these are the first 2 of the 6 main steps to renovation preparations…
- Decide on what you’re doing and work out what you can afford – Don’t go blindly into renovations without knowing upfront exactly what you want to do. This is how people end up going way over budget.
Having decided that, decide what your available finances will allow – even before consulting your installer contact your bank if necessary and see what kind of loan you can procure.
At this stage, if any damage has been done to the items you are replacing (particularly water damage after our very wet winter) find out what insurance claims you might be entitled to – and if you need to go through that process Libra Flooring can assist you with that too. Read an interesting article we published on this recently – Four steps to follow for flooded or damaged floors
- Contact your supplier/Installer – Contact Libra Flooring and complete your costing with a quote. We can also advise you on whether the renovations you have in mind will require any formal drawings or plans in which case you will need to contact an Architect or Designer to do these and have the plans passed.
In this article, we are, as aforementioned, generally talking about standard interior and exterior alterations that will not require actual building changes.
Libra Flooring has all you need and is happy to advise
One of the great advantages of approaching Libra Flooring as your renovation specialist is that we have such a wide range of products available to choose from and we handle most aspects of standard renovations. Come into our showroom in Montague Gardens or contact us today about your preparations for Summer Renovations 2025 – we are ready and willing to serve you.
Watch this space for part 2 – and in the meantime Happy Holidays – and travel safely!