Construction Quality, Scope, Time, and Cost.
Remodel, Renovate and Restore
A remodel transforms the purpose of an area, a renovation repairs and updates an area without changing its purpose and a restoration restores a space to its original condition with replicas or original materials.
Restoration enhances property’s value, increasing sentimental value and prolonging the life span. Renovation personalizes spaces, improving the function of a room and adding value to the property. Remodelling adds value to the property or building, improving the function of a space and creating the house or building per preferences.
At Redinex, we specialize in transforming existing residences into beautiful, new living spaces. Whether you need interior renovation or reconstruction, we’re your remodelers.
Remodelling
One of the major of all the three home improvement projects. Consists of reshaping and restructuring an entire room or building and it almost always requires the help of an architect. Remodelling activities include things like:
- Demolition and construction work, i.e. knocking down old walls and adding new walls
- Adding central heating systems or cooling systems
- Lowering floors (which requires either underpinning or benching)
- Raising ceilings (which tends to mean appropriating loft space)
- Changing the layout of a building, such as moving the kitchen or bathroom to a new location
- Adding an extension or enclosing an open space
Partly costly than other improvements, as it involves multidisciplinary trades to ensure the work carried out on the building is safe, meets legal requirements and is carried out to the highest standard.
Renovate
If a building is generally in a good state of repair, but just needs certain structural components to be replaced to make it liveable, this is what we treat as a renovation project in Redinex. It would include things like:
- Laying new floors
- Putting in new plasterboard and re-plastering walls
- Putting in a new bathroom or kitchen
- Replacing old windows
- Changing the location of light fittings
- Rewiring the building
A renovation project is implemented by REdinex professional trades people with various skill sets – carpenters, joiners, builders, installers, plasterers and so on.
Does not demand quite the same level of investment as a full remodelling project as it shouldn’t require planning permission or help of an architect.
Restore
At Redinex restoration projects, are actually the most straightforward of the three types of property improvement. Our professionals tend to lreplace only the parts that either no longer function or are broken or damaged in a visibly significant way.
Ideally, it is all about leaving the original features in-tact. So, a restoration project will include things like:
- Repairing damaged plasterwork
- Replacing broken balusters on an original banister
- Removing old carpets
- Replacing broken floorboards
- Replacing rotten window frames with replicas of the original
- Chipping off modern tiles to reveal the original ones
- Replacing old bathroom taps with complementary ones
Project Types
Which type
of project should I undertake – renovation, restoration or remodelling?
Whether it is your own home, a property development or a commercial building such as a pub, office or shop, you’re going to want to think about which type of project it is you want to undertake before Redinex starts the work. There are three benchmarks by which we do this. We call them The Three Cs:-
Capital Investment
How much do you have to spend? Remodelling your home will likely run to around 10% – 15% of the value of the entire building. That is quite a layout, so you might want to think about a renovation or restoration if you don’t have the money to do it.
Changes Wanted
What are you looking to do with the place?
When you saw the building, did you view it as a blank canvas giving you the opportunity of a complete overhaul? Or are you not the kind of person who wants to take on something so big? Think about the level of disruption to your life, think about the difference the improvements will make to your life. Considering the kind of changes you need to the building will help you decide whether it’s a remodel, renovation or restoration you’re after.
Contentment Level
Can you live with the building in a similar state to how it currently looks or does absolutely everything have to go so you can start over?
Will you be happy if everything stays where it is, but the broken and dilapidated elements are simply replaced, repaired and generally spruced up? Or will you not be happy until you start taking sledgehammers to walls, even if it bites further into your budget than you’d like?