Nashville Home Improvement Help

A common place for improvement of your house is your bathroom. Ki Gray recently explained in the American Chronical that with a bit of preparation, planning, and hard work your bathroom can take on a new life.

Gray notes that the first thing to consider during any renovation is to begin with a budget that you will adhere to. When your budget is established, you should decide how difficult the job will be. A new coat of paint and cosmetic changes are cheap and easy, while changing the layout of your bath such as changing the location of your sink, toilet, or bathtub will be labor intensive and will be best competitively bid by contractors online using a free service like BeaverBids.com.

If there has been extensive moisture penetration into the wooden framework of the wall and structure, a complete tearout would be advisable. Even if the frame is good, replacement of your drywall is in order. There is an excellent moisture resistant drywall called greenboard that can help protect your investment agaist long term damage.

If you are replacing a wall in your shower area, you will also need to use cement backerboard at the base layer to keep moisture contained.

The centerpiece of most bathrooms is the shower or tub. For the home improvement enthusiast, popping in a prefab shower or tub enclosure is a pretty easy job. If you want to go a step up, you can break out the tile saw and pick some nice tile. Tiling you tub/shower means building a frame, so you might want to get some bids for the job online. The prefab showers have come a long way in variety of styles and colors to choose from.

Flooring is also a huge part of your bathroom, and a nice resurfing can really make a differeince. You might think continuing the nice wood flooring that is in the rest of your house into the bathroom would be a consistent choice, but wood warps and cracks in a humid environment.

Ceramic tile is a smart and popular choice. And with unlimited colors and styles the sky is the limit. Preparation for tiling requires that the floor be leveled, or your results will shoddy. the easiest way is to use a leveling compound that allows you to sculpt the floor with a trowel, fill indetions, etc.

Adding a new sink area can not only improve the look of your bath, but give you a chance to improve the functionality of a place that you may use daily. Such an update is easy enough for most do-it yourselfers, since you can often use the existing plumbing.

Even if you don’t want to rip out the entire vanity and cabinets, refinishing and adding new hardware can make an amazing difference. Paint and hardware are easy enough for even the an amateur to handle! Top it off by replacing that outdated medicine cabinet mirror with a hip framed mirror.

Taking on a remodeling job can be a challenge, but if you are faced with rewiring or replumbing, your best be will be to seek bids on your home improvement through a free online community service. We recommend an open service like BeaverBids that doesn’t require subscriptions or fees from the contractors.