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Plumbing Renovation Tips for New Home Owners

  • Perla Irish
  • July 5, 2020
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  1. 1. Be Mindful of Your Limitations
  2. 2. Perform Plumbing Inspections
  3. 3. Estimate a Budget with Contingencies
  4. 4. Be Accurate on Measurements
  5. 5. Don’t Compromise Quality with Cost
  6. 6. Expect the Unexpected
  7. Final Thoughts

Back in the days when you’re still renting a place, whenever there’s a broken pipe or a flooded toilet in your unit, you call your landlord to fix it. Now that you own a house, you’re in charge of all its systems — including plumbing.

As a new homeowner, you’ve got a lot to know about how to take care of your own home. In many considerations, knowing how to cope with plumbing problems is an essential part of homeownership.

The plumbers at Blueline offer great tips and advice on their blog. Go check them out.

However, plumbing renovation is another thing. Choosing the right pipe and installing the appropriate drains most of the time requires skilled hands. Some fixtures might not be familiar to you, and knowing where to buy them can sometimes be challenging.

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Plumbing Renovation Tips for New Home Owners

Yet, when you want to skip the challenge, you can check out this site for your needed plumbing supplies. And to help you further with your plumbing renovation, here are a few tips you can adapt.


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1. Be Mindful of Your Limitations

The first thing you should do to renovate your plumbing system at your new home is to be guided by the governing laws and policies in your locality. You should know what can and can’t be achieved before proceeding with any plumbing renovations.

Though it’s true that you own the house, you still need to consider all factors that might be affected by the proposed work.

It would help if you secured all clearances and permits required for the renovation. By doing so, you can proceed to do plumbing renovations hassle-free, continuous, and not violating any legal laws.

2. Perform Plumbing Inspections

After securing all the necessary permits, the next step is to have a specialists’ plumbing inspection done.

Plumbing inspections are necessary for new homeowners. These inspections provide technical reports on how to fix plumbing concerns and address other plumbing issues.

Especially if there are clogs on pipes, the inspectors will educate you to learn what exactly causes those clogs.

Moreover, performing plumbing inspections can help you ensure your household’s safety. It’ll show you what necessary repairs and renovations you need to do for your newly bought house.

3. Estimate a Budget with Contingencies

With the inspection done, you’re now all set and ready for your renovation. Start by setting a budget taking into consideration the contingencies the project will incur.

It is necessary to understand the risks and where your money will go. If you don’t make time creating an estimated budget plan, get ready to spend more than the allotted budget because you don’t know what the considerations are.

Estimating your budget for plumbing works and contingencies will set you on a full grasp of the budget as the renovation goes. Contingencies are vital for they are the backup budgets in case unnecessary damages took place.

4. Be Accurate on Measurements

With your budget set and the funds available, shop at your trusted hardware, ensuring you have all the accurate measurements of the needed materials.

Pay close attention to accurate measurements of all the fixtures and plumbing accessories you’re going to install or replace.

In most cases, you will need to merge new installations with the old ones in your renovation project. Carelessness on figures and dimensions of plumbing fixtures can give you headaches.

Failure to secure the correct measurements of plumbing fixtures may result in unfitted components. Worst you may need a new one if the installation unfits to its supposed location.

Master plumbers are very strict on specifications, on correct sizes of pipes, couplings, and fittings. Likewise, as a homeowner, you must be extra careful in buying specified materials for your renovations.

5. Don’t Compromise Quality with Cost

In shopping around for your materials, don’t fall and be deceived at low prices. Cheap materials or labor compensations seemed like a great option, but make sure you’ll never regret it in the end.

It is good to note that low-quality products result in extra maintenance and may transform your home renovations into a catastrophe.

High standard and quality materials are expensive, and so shows their durability in use. Renovations that are plan carefully and skillfully done plus quality materials used are worth the cost.

Hasty works result in costly maintenance repairs or worst replacement of the entire work set. So, it’s better to spend with caution that to save much now and pay a double later.

6. Expect the Unexpected

In dealing with your expenses with your plumbing renovations, you always need to have a Plan B. Renovations sometimes don’t go as planned. The choices and decisions you made before the construction process start always influence the final output.

Assumptions are sometimes helpful, predicting the possibilities of error could make you ready for remedies and quick responses.

It would be best to take careful and necessary choices when it comes to plumbing renovations. A tiny error may end up having an instant swimming pool in your house in a single blow of pipes.

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Final Thoughts

Plumbing renovations for your new home can be a very pleasurable project. Nothing is more rewarding than seeing all the piping and fixtures where you want them.

Undertaking a home plumbing repair is an expenditure in both effort and cash. You need to plan a smart idea of what you’re heading into before you leap in feet first!

Each home is entirely different. Each renovation will encounter its series of challenges. Yet all problems are fixed by dealing with it correctly. Consider the tips mentioned above and make plumbing renovations a simple problem to solve.

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