Home Renovation Checklist: Everything You Need to Know to Save Money, Time, and Your Sanity

by Robert Irwin

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An indispensable quick-check guide to saving money and headaches during home renovations

Lured by skyrocketing real estate values, more Americans than ever are renovating their homes. Some have had some experience with home renovations. Many are trying their hands at it for the first time. Most are totally unprepared for the thousand-and-one pitfalls, screw-ups, and headaches that can plague a home improve project, including runaway costs, unscrupulous suppliers and contractors, arcane building codes, and more.

Written by America's #1 source of real estate know-how, Home Renovation Checklist is an indispensable guide to navigating the renovation process and keeping costs, time, and headaches involved to a minimum. Modeled after Irwin's bestselling Home Buyer's Checklist, this book is packed with hundreds of checklist questions (and answers) covering every detail of any home improvement project, including:

Budgeting costs
Dealing with contractors
Obtaining financing
Determining whether or not to do all or part of the renovations themselves

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Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars

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2 out of 5 stars

Home Renovation Checklist, 2008-09-03
Home Renovation Checklist: Everything You Need to Know to Save Money, Time, and Your Sanity

This book has some common sense Q&A in it, but it is not specifically a "checklist" that I was hoping for. So, if you have never done any renovation before, it's a good way to prep yourself for unanticipated issues. However, if you have any idea at all what you are doing, then it doesn't really give you a summarized list of anything.

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5 out of 5 stars

Very Useful, 2006-07-11
This book is very useful in answering questions homeowners may have about renovating their homes. The format features questions, the answers "yes" or "no" with checkboxes next to them with room underneath for note taking, and a detailed explanation with tips and hints. For the most part this format works well, although I wish that author Robert Irwin had varied the answers a bit since not every question can be answered "yes" or "no", for example "when will you do the job?"

The first four chapters in the book focus on general questions about home renovations such as hiring a contractor and financing the job. The rest of the book focuses on certain areas to be renovated, for example there's one chapter on renovating the bathroom, bedroom, and kitchen; another on installing cabinets; and another on installing floors. This is really helpful since the homeowner can read just the chapter that focuses on the repair work they want to do. The questions that Irwin asks are very helpful and he doesn't hesitate to say whether or not you should tackle the job yourself or hire someone to do it.

Very useful.

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