The question perhaps most frequently asked by homeowners: How to select the right Remodeler? After 30 years these are the top six things to consider. If these are your interview questions, you're much more likely to have a positive experience.
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Communication, Advocacy, transparency, expertise, excitement, interest, and most important- do you like each other!
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The homeowner also has a bit of homework to do, developing a wants list and a needs list, as well as identify targeted budget.
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The one item we'd caution against is selecting on price. If the design isn't 100% complete, all you will get is a guess. If there's transparency in estimating, the only difference on cost from one company to the next would be in overhead (a bigger company has more overhead), and accuracy (did they account for everything and are they willing to give you a fixed sum contract for construction.)
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#advice #remodel #selection #choice transparency estimating #communication
Remodeling breathes new life into old spaces! Remodeling dreams of new possibilities!
Remodeling is meticulous in detail, finding new harmony in form and function!
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Remodeling takes space like this 110 year old home in St Paul, and revisions what's possible for the space. Systems are replaced. Spaces reworked. Floors re-leveled. Ceilings modified. We take it all apart, and put it back together as a bespoke creation custom tailored to our clients desire.
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Remodeling is improving the lives of our clients and the well being of the community.
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Credit:
Architecture- Marc Sloot, SALA
Design - Katie Jaydan, OA Design Build Architecture
Remodeler - OA Design Build Architecture
Had to use this audio for something! How about some self promotional content reminding folks that we are Architecture Design and Construction, and we do some cool stuff, so consider hiring us! 😁😁
This is new construction. Intentionally built this way. I watched it go up 3 years ago. (It's across the street from my oldest's high school.) It was full of code violations as it was being built, enough to get it shut down multiple times by the city.
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The design sets the house up for failure of the worst kind. The codes aren't really set up to handle this level of insanity either. Not just the water that's being channeled directly at the window, the entire roof above it, smashing against the side of the dormer! Not just bulk water events, the snow that will pile up against the house, and melt, and freeze, and melt..
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The House and the Tree. An exploration in relationships and experiences. We turned this 1913 Spanish Colonial into a modern marvel. Site of the tallest tree in Minneapolis, everything was designed around the relationship between the house and the tree.
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The shape of the home, the placement of the glass, the transition between interior and exterior spaces, and of course the SkyCove; that glass cocoon nestled in the boughs of the tree to create a fully immersive experience.
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A huge shout out and thank you to our partners @themarvinbrand for the opportunity and for capturing this so beautifully for us.
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#windows #minneapolis #oldhouse #remodel #greenbuilding
Detail on the layout of the steel knife plates that will support each tread on the inside stringer for these balanced winder stairs. #stairdesign #carpentrytips #stairbuilder #practicalgeometry #winderstairs
Simple ways to improve stair and railing designs. This is the subject of my next @jlconline article. (Actually another article on interesting ways to case windows will be out soon, followed by this series on stair design). #stairdesign #stairbuilder #practicalgeometry #stairs #carpentrytips
“Balanced” or “dancing” winder stair layout using the most common French method. #stairdesign #stairbuilder #practicalgeometry #winderstairs #dancingwinder
Simple Stair Solutions: This is the topic of my next magazine article for @jlconline This is an often overlooked, and very simple way to improve staircase design. #stairdesign #carpentrytips #stairbuilder #stairs #handrails
Structure is fun, and often hidden, so let's talk about it while we can still see it!
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Steel beam went in, and runs from foundation where we grout the core solid first, add a capillary break, and run over to a PSL (paralam), which bears on a new footing.
This will picks up the floor framing so we can move the original bearing beam, cut out the the floor framing and bring in our new dancing winder staircase that we've been posting about.
Something we don't do that often is pour a dual thickness footing. In this case the engineer asked us to set the large L shaped footing 2" lower so we can attach our mounting plate and bolts, grout it in and tile over it. Essentially hiding the structural connection.
Fun stuff!
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#oldhouse #lynhurst #building #remodeling #structure
It's almost here! With a line up of speakers that is guaranteed to make for the best Building Science Symposium ever. Just another reason to love Canada!
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#buildingscience #building #construction #knowledge #NovaScotia
