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Avoid Getting Bad Ideas For Remodeling Your Bathroom
If you happen to mention that you are considering doing up the bathroom, you will be flooded with remodeling a bathroom ideas. Whether you get ideas from a contractor, someone else who has remodeled their bathroom, or someone without a clue, you’ll get ideas you like and ideas you don’t. Experts are people with real experience, not just ideas they got from watching renovation shows on television. Although home renovations shows like “This Old House” has helped many people with economical home repairs, it also has made armchair experts of thousands of others.
Here is how not to find bathroom remodel ideas.
Anywhere Alcohol Is Involved
It used to be that a local bar was the best place to find contractors. Contractors would stay in the bar knowing that potential customers may come looking for them there. If they weren’t in the tavern, then they weren’t looking to take on any more work at that time. Nowadays, no respectable builder or contractor drums up business this way. Even getting ideas in the bar is a bad idea. Drinking and remodeling are two things you should never mix.
The “Trust Me” Guys
The words “trust me” do not mean what they once did, especially when they are connected with any ideas for remodeling your bathroom and not their own bathrooms. That phrase has really changed from something meaningful to a warning over the years. Even if your best friend, even if your lover, even if your mother ends any ideas for remodeling your bathroom with the words “trust me”, just nod, smile and then mentally wipe all the ideas from your memory banks.
Contractors Don’t Wear Suits
Have you ever seen a contractor in a suit? It’s not something you see everyday. The person may have previously been a contractor, so they could give some useful ideas. Their ideas could be looked into, but be sure that the building codes or material prices haven’t changed since they were remodeling bathrooms. Architects frequently wear suits, but will probably not have the same focus as you.
By: Chet Lystrom