By Lauren Winn with Muse, Integrative Design Works
Considering managing your own remodel or addition? Hiring subcontractors, trying to keep a schedule and a budget without ever having done it before could be a recipe for disaster. Home improvement jobs that are not properly managed, often end up botched, over budget and incomplete. Here are a few reasons to seriously consider hiring a project manager:
BAD CONTRACTORS
Tom Martino wrote an article on November 20, 2007 titled Bad Contractors. The article starts out by saying,” There is nothing worse than hiring someone for home improvement projects that never get done or get done poorly. Bad contractors are about the biggest complaint FOX 31’s Troubleshooter gets.”
Muse, Integrative Design Works, has already found and hires talented, trustworthy, insured subcontractors.
WE ARE A LIASON BETWEEN THE HOMEOWNER AND CONTRACTORS
Project Managers, on the homeowner’s behalf, make sure everyone is informed and understands their roles, expectations and schedules for completing the project on time. From the inception of your home improvement project, a project manager can design, specify, create construction documents, control bids, negotiate and award all work to be performed. Project managers will also manage all coordination, budget issues and make sure the project is complete with satisfaction.
DESIGN
As a project manager, Muse, Integrative Design Works, specializes in including all designs and specifications for your project. From design development, including visual aides, through construction documents, we specify, with your taste and input, all necessary finish materials. Although all of the building phases are important for quality, long lasting construction, it is the finished product, i.e. the finishes that you will be looking at every day. You should be stunned and happy with your surroundings.
Although home improvement projects are known to be overwhelming, Muse, Integrative Design Works can lead you through the entire process. We will listen to your goals and desires, help you create a budget, manage the entire construction process and leave you more than satisfied upon completion.