Pros and cons of renovating a house

Renovation is a popular construction job on the planet. But you have know the pros and cons of the renovation work before you actually begin renovating your house.

Pros of renovating a house

Faster process

Building a new house from scratch has a lot of processes that will take time. The process will start from design, field visit, drafting and discussing 2D design, doing a 3D design and estimate and end up in construction. Renovation also works on similar steps, but the number of revisions are way too less. The construction happens only in small areas. The clients feel it easier to visualize and therefore, there is often very less confusion.

Preservation of history and character

Renovation of house often takes place in old houses. Renovation always adds to the old design because new design mixed with old design doesn’t look good. Old architecture will get preserved, old construction technologies will get restored. The building will feel like it still dates back to ancient times. People feel like they are back to the old days where their parents used to do their chores in the same house.

Cost Effectiveness

Renovation effort is always less costlier than building a new home. Renovation only involves partial addition of rooms or floors. Renovation can also mean protecting the structural components from damages from environmental factors. It is always cheaper than building a new home also because new homes are based on new and expensive technologies whereas old houses have architectures that demand cheaper construction materials like hand made brick, surkhi. Old wooden components are also reused. All these things will make the renovation experience more cost effective than building an entirely new home.

Conservation of Environment

Renovating a house will indirectly give you the conservation of environment. Be it homes from ancient times made up of brick and surkhi or a modern home, renovation always saves environment because lesser material will be used and renovation efforts will utilize the recyclable materials.

For example, the materials used in renovation like toughened glass, fiber glass, cement board are all renewable materials that will take minimal energy to renew in factories. Using such a material for construction instead of concrete will contribute towards energy saving approaches.

If you are renovating your old home, you are again conserving the environment. Old homes mostly use masonry technologies and masonry technology is said to create lesser environment pollution because the mortar used is locally available and bricks are mostly not kiln manufactured.

Therefore, because you will recycle and reuse already used material in renovation, you will conserve the environment in renovation.

Cons of renovating a house

As opposed to the pros of renovating a house, there are a few cons of renovating a house. We have explained it to you here in brief.

Potential Delays

Renovating a house is a tedious experience. You will be staying in the same house which you are renovating. This means you are playing with dirt and local pollution every day. And because the renovation works are smaller as compared to a full new site, there are a lot of potential delays because renovators often don’t have a work schedule for small works. Not having work schedule means your mason will complete his work within two days and the carpenter, electrician or the plumber will come to the site only after the next five days.

Limited Design Options

You don’t have room to experiment much in case of renovation works. This is because renovation works have their limitation in that you must make the renovation align with the previous design. The most lavish thing which you can try while renovating is you can take out only a few designs and those designs should well align with the architecture of the original house.

A renovation work is also done with a fixed purpose. You will do a renovation knowing that you need a room for a kitchen or another fixed purpose. Therefore, you can’t experiment either in the interior design too.

Hidden Costs

The most suffocating thing about renovating a house is the hidden costs. Renovating works rarely go towards completion as planned. Extra costs will come because you will try to modify the designs even after your design had been initially completed.

If the construction workers work very well, you decide to add more renovation items and that too will increase the cost of renovation work.

Skillsewa is always ready to work with you. We will make sure you will have less of the cons and more of the pros while working with us. Contact us instantly now.