Simple Steps for Planning Your Home Addition

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Simple Steps for Planning Your Home Addition
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• Needing more space is a common issue faced by
  families all over America, especially as more
  children choose to remain at home for longer
  before leaving the nest, and the pandemic has
  meant that houses have been full of their
  inhabitants, for longer periods.
• If space is at a premium in your home, you can
  try following these simple steps to successfully
  plan an addition project
• List what you want from the addition
• Understanding how you plan to make use of the
  extra space, will help shape its design and
  enable you to better communicate your ideas with
  a general contractor or designer.

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• What are the funds?
• Even an approximate calculation is better than
  nothing when planning an addition project, but
  youll need to carefully assess your assets,
  equity, savings, stocks, bonds, and evaluate your
  credit rating and monthly payments, to get an
  accurate picture of what you can and cant
  afford.
• Check with the relevant authorities
• There may be some legal restrictions as to what
  you can and cant build on your property.

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• Should you build up or out?
• Building out may seem like the most sensible
  solution for many house additions, but there are
  cases when going up is more beneficial. Building
  up might be your only option if you physically
  cant expand outwards, or if you want to maintain
  privacy for second story rooms, or preserve
  outdoor living space.
• Really visualize the space
• Imagining how the floor plan will come alive in
  3-dimensional form is important if youre to
  truly understand your addition, and be sure that
  its designed exactly as you want it.

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• Only ever work with professionals
• Unless youre a fully qualified and experienced
  general contractor or builder, youre never going
  to be able to carry out a successful home
  addition, at least not without causing
  significant problems further down the line. A
  general contractor can help you realize all of
  your addition dreams, and give you the right
  extra space for your home, without you having to
  compromise on a thing.
• Get a contract drawn up
• Before any work on your home addition commences,
  you must get everything set down in a legal
  contract that helps to safeguard against
  misunderstandings and potentially costly
  catastrophes.

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• If your general contractor isnt willing to sign
  a legally binding contract, theyre probably not
  professional or qualified!
• Check your available funds again
• Once youve got a design for your home addition
  that youre happy with, take a long, hard look at
  the numbers again, and make sure that youve got
  the funds to cover everything and get the project
  completed on time, and within budget.
• It can be exciting planning a home addition, and
  provided you plan it carefully and form a strong
  line of communication with your general
  contractor, you could soon be enjoying more space
  in the home that you love.

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• RZ Construction Group Inc is a fully inclusive
  and one of the best construction companies in
  Astoria NY. From initial design to final clean
  up, our results speak for themselves. We are
  fully licensed, insured, and bonded to provide
  both commercial and residential construction
  services to customers in Astoria and the
  surrounding area. Proud to serve New York State
  for 25 years. No job is too small nor too big. If
  you are looking for home addition contractors in
  Astoria NY or want to know more about our wide
  range of professional but affordable construction
  and repair services, reach out to us at (718)
  938-9887.