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I’m a licensed home improvement contractor, now retired, but I started exactly where you are, making changes to my own house. I added rooms, remodeled others, replumbed and rewired. Along the way I learned some very useful tips that have helped my in my professional career as well as in the ongoing jobs that all homeowners face. This website shares them with you, along with the technical knowledge I’ve since learned. Here are some of the most important ones, tips that can make your bathroom remodeling—and any other remodeling—project go easier and cost less. It’s the remodeler’s mantra: measure twice, cut once. It means that planning is vital to successful remodeling. Yet too many do-it-yourselfers jump into the project without really thinking it through—and make costly mistakes. You, obviously, aren’t one of them because you’ve come to this website to see what’s involved in bathroom remodeling before tearing into walls. So here are some planning tips that can help you get the job done. * Buy a school or steno notebook and start making notes and drawings on your remodeling project. * Go shopping at area home improvement stores, plumbing supply stores, and bathroom shops for ideas and resources. * Start looking at bathrooms, considering what you like and don’t like about each toward finding out what best fits your needs. * Take a look through this website for additional design ideas as well as a peak at what it will take to remodel your bathroom. * Think what this remodeled bathroom will add to the value of your home in comfort and in the eventual sale price. * Ask friends, neighbors, relatives, and co-workers if they have any recent experience with bathroom remodeling.
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