Things To Consider Before Planning Your Spring Bathroom Renovation
Spring is very much underway, having brought with it a freshness of air we haven’t felt in what feels like a long time. Spring is traditionally a time for new beginnings, in a great many walks of life – most famously, though, with regard to your home. The promise of longer, warmer days is the perfect excuse to move ahead with some refreshing changes to your home. Bathroom renovations are undeniably impactful in this regard, but organising them can be tough. What should you bear in mind before you get started?
Decide on Your Renovation Goals
This may seem a basic point to make, but it nonetheless bears mentioning, and even repeating – before you start on your bathroom renovation, you should have some clear ideas of what it is you’d actually like to achieve with it. You might have simple aspirations, such as the upgrading of your central heating system or the installation of a new shower unit. You might have more involved plans around a complete bathroom refit. Both are impactful in their own ways, and come with their own caveats.
The reason this is such an important basic point to re-iterate is that many first-time buyers or over-zealous property developers get stuck into the project before they have a clear idea of its results or even their own timescale. The result can be disastrous for the harmony of the home at the very least, and disastrous for the condition or value of the property at the very most.
Create a Plan
With an essential outline of your bathroom renovation end-goals in mind, you can start creating a robust plan of action. Planning a renovation project of any kind is a multi-faceted process, which needs to consider costs, available finances, timescale and skilled help necessary – with the acknowledgment that changes to one variable can affect all others.
For instance, in order to facilitate a new central heating set-up, you’ll need a strong idea of how different combi boilers might interact with your renovation budget. You’ll also need to understand the labour costs in replacing old for new, and for calibrating the new thereafter. There’s also the mess that re-routing gas and water pipes can create, necessitating time management and careful booking of different aspects of your renovation.
Go Step By Step
Finally, and perhaps even more obviously than the last, you should aim to take your bathroom renovation step by step. It may be tempting to attack multiple aspects of your bathroom at the same time, but this can create more problems than it solves – especially when the bathroom in question is the only one in your home. If something goes wrong, you could be without important facilities without a back-up plan. Take each step in your plan as they come, and your methodological approach will all-but guarantee the best possible outcome.
