Budget Worksheets for Additions


The right home improvement products, techniques, and services:
Contractors, home improvement stores, and specialty shops in your area may not yet have a complete familiarity with the ‘green’ opportunities, products, system integration, and overall savings potential. So, you may get some resistance, since people in general are typically more comfortable recommending something that they are already familiar with rather than something new. To help break the inertia, use the information across this website like our Return on Investment Master ROI Table. Also feel free to post a question in our forum on the message board about a particular need for your home relative to your area. Our team has spent multiple years aggregating research from public and private sector performance reports and from manufacturers and homeowners across the country in order to provide you with the perspective you may need to see the initial payback and long term advantages. Environmental enthusiasts and leading institutions like the American Institute of Architects and the National Association of Realtors, see the value and link into our resources to support their members.

The Green Home:
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Category Checklist:
Make sure to consider the latest Home Improvement products and services. If you are doing the work yourself or planning on working with a home improvement contractor use this checklist below as a guide to review and ask questions about the preferred products, details, and installation techniques related to:

Budget Worksheets for Additions:
Staying on Budget, Project Supervision, Project Timelines, and Key Benchmarks.

Tips on Budget Worksheets for Additions: If you do not have an Architect to help with Project Supervision, you may want to consider an Owners Representative (Rep). For major projects, the advantage of a working with design build firm is that the cost of the design is often rolled in and you may save some money. The disadvantage of working with a design build firm is that you lose the objective advantage of having the architect ‘police’ the construction to look out only for your best interests. Most home improvement projects go over budget and over schedule, so doing the research in advance and adhering to a timeline will help you stay on track. For benchmarks, structure the payments to only trigger on actual deliverables that are measurable aspects of progress and not just a factor of time.

Home Improvement Basics:
When it comes to home improvement basics, look for interior home improvements like creating a clean, safe, and healthy home through sustainable ‘green’ furniture, home décor, zero VOC and Interior Paint, plus ENERGY STAR Appliances and Electronics. For energy and utility savings you can focus on insulation and air sealing, windows, doors, lighting and skylights, water saving plumbing opportunities, and high efficiency heating and air conditioning systems. On the outside of your house, look for exterior home improvement opportunities through landscape design and gardening plus solar energy, wind and other power sources. If you are undertaking a major home renovation, an additions, or building a new home, then take the lead to ‘go green’ in as many ways as possible to save money and the environment.

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