Perhaps you’ve been considering moving even though you love your home, and it’s getting older and isn’t compatible with the 2020s. You may think moving is your only option, but another viable choice exists. Renovating your home can bring it up to date and make life more comfortable. Let’s take a closer look.
Preparing For Renovation
You are going to produce a lot of waste when you renovate your house. A twenty-yard roll-off dumpster from Dumpstermaxx should suffice if you have an average house, and a thirty-yard dumpster will be required if you have an above-average home.
Make Your House More Safe with Renovation
You may be worried about the load new appliances place on old wiring around your home. The good news is that a licensed electrician can do things such as replace your wiring with up-to-date and up-to-code wiring that can handle a higher load than the wiring of forty or fifty years ago. If your house was built before 1990, there is a good chance the wiring can’t handle the load of modern appliances. This concept extends to electric boxes as well. If you have an old fuse box, then it needs to be upgraded to avoid fires. When the electrician is done, he will throw out all the old wiring and electric boxes in your roll-off dumpster.
You can add doorbell cameras and fire detectors to make your home safer as well.
Old Fixtures, Sinks, Countertops, Floors, and Fireplaces
Old light fixtures, faucets, and spigots may no longer work around your home and need to be upgraded; a leaky sink is bad anywhere in your home. You can throw out the old sinks and replace them with more modern, aesthetically pleasing ones.
Speaking of skinks, you can replace that old Formica or particleboard counter from the seventies or eighties with brand-new granite counters. The kitchen is traditionally the heart of the home, and recent surveys show this to be true. Putting in new counters will give your kitchen new life. Perhaps your kitchen is cursed with an ugly linoleum floor from decades ago. Removing the linoleum and replacing it with wood floors is another excellent way to improve your kitchen and whole house if the linoleum extends past the kitchen.
Fireplaces are a great thing to have if they are maintained properly; if you haven’t been keeping up with your fireplace for years, it may be in bad disrepair, which means rotting mantle pieces and crumbling bricks. You may want to consider removing the fireplace and replacing it with an electric insert that gives the illusion of a working fireplace without the hassle. You can even turn off the heat on an electric insert in the summer and still display the flames on its high-definition screen. If you want to have something more authentic, wood or pellet-burning stoves can go where your fireplace was and have the same atmosphere as a fireplace. You can dispose of the mantle and damaged bricks in your roll-off dumpster. If the bricks in the fireplace and chimney are too damaged, they will have to be rebuilt by a professional, and most of your dumpster will be taken up by the crumbling brick and mortar.
Be Smart About Your Home Renovation
When you undertake a renovation, you should consider making your home a smart home where the lights, thermostat, refrigerator, and other appliances can be programmed or controlled by a smartphone from another location. Smart houses save on energy and provide convivence. Add a doorbell camera to your home, and you’ve created another layer of safety.
Adding additional power outlets can also contribute to a smart home by allowing you to charge more of your devices and add things like smart speakers to every room.
Adding Space Through Renovation
When you renovate your house, you can knock out unneeded walls, create a storage place under stairs, and turn your attic or basement into an additional room such as a gym or entertainment room. All that unused area in your spacious backyard can be turned into an outdoor kitchen or add a swimming pool. Of course, a tree may need to be trimmed back or shrubs removed in order to complete those projects. You can take any yard waste produced by the project and dispose of them in the dumpster rather than having to haul them to the nearest landfill to you.
Dumpstermaxx Can Help You Renovate Your House
Dumpstermaxx can be a partner to you in your renovation project. We will deliver a roll-off dumpster to a location of your choosing and leave it there; when you have filled the dumpster, we will come back and haul it away. It’s as simple as that. Call us today or fill out our easy contact form. One of our qualified and experienced staff members will be happy to help you.