Wednesday 7 December 2011

Hire a Professional Construction Company

Hiring a professional construction company for house renovations will probably be one of the more expensive things a homeowner does for their house. Professionals can be called in to handle anything from attic conversions, to house extensions, to refurbishing your bathrooms, so we must know what we are doing and how to do it well and to the satisfaction of the homeowner.

Below are some tips on hiring a professional construction company.

Planning
The homeowner has to first plan what sort of renovations they want. For a homeowner to say they want an extension to their house or a larger bathroom tells the contractor not much. The homeowner should sit down for a few evenings and be specific about what they want and what they can afford. What type of windows do they want in the new space? What kind of doors, flooring, hardware? Do you require standard or luxury bathrooms? This way the contractor can have a better understanding of the homeowner's goals. Some construction companies even have their prospective customers fill out a questionnaire detailing what they want. An architect can even be consulted on an hourly basis to help with the planning.

Finding The Right Construction Company
A homeowner can find a reputable construction company through referrals, the Yellow Pages, Online, or other contractors who have worked with the company before.

The homeowner can then choose from a list of general contractors and bring them to their home to see what they have in mind for the renovation or house extension. The contractor will sit down the homeowner, go over the plans they've written down and give them recommendations and tips. The contractor should also be prepared to give the homeowner references, which should include work they’ve recently done as well as what they had done years ago. The contractor should have been in business for at least five years, be licensed and insured, have a clean record and belong to reputable professional organisations. Then, the homeowner can feel comfortable about taking the contractor on.

Check Platinum Group for the following services:

Attic Conversions - Bathrooms Dublin - Extensions Ireland

Monday 5 December 2011

What Are The Benefits of Hiring a Professional Contractor

You have always wanted to improve your house, and whether it be fixing up the bathrooms, some home renovations or even some nice house extensions, trust in professional companies to make it a reality for you.

Sure, you could do some attic conversions yourself, but who wants to spend all that time with the tools and the cutting, and you know Murphy's Law. If something can go wrong, it will. A few miscalculations and that dream extension could fall to pieces and you'd have no recourse. Why chance that something can go wrong when you can make sure it's done right the first time by hiring a professional contractor?

When you do it yourself, you need all those tools, and to cut, measure, hammer, weld... do you even have a Phillips Head screwdriver? Can you scramble to find the right tools in the tool chest? Why waste so much time scrambling for tools, risking injury, possibly sweating as you work in a stuffy 100+ degree room, and even likely doing it wrong when you can have piece of mind by going to the pros?

A professional construction company can come out, tell you how to make your dream of any attic conversions or house extensions a reality, give you an estimate in writing of how many hours it will require and the cost in writing. And the best part is that you know it will be done by a trusted name in the industry, Platinum Group so there's no chance that your home renovations will fall apart while you're trying to check out the new bathrooms that are installed.

In this day and age, we understand it has to be done right every time, not just hammered haphazardly. You want your home renovations to last, and for everything from house extensions to bathrooms to attic extensions, you know you can trust the pros for all of your home improvement needs.

Saturday 3 December 2011

Welcome to Platinum Blog

Welcome to Platinum Blog. This is the blog of Platinum Group based in Dublin Ireland. Platinum Group is one of Ireland's leading construction companies in Ireland. Our Services include house extensions, renovations, bathooms dublin, attic conversions and new builds. We offer a full professional construction service and our specialty are luxury bathrooms fitting.