Kitchen Remodeling

January 26, 2008

When a large bathroom vanity cabinet is too large…

Filed under: bathroom remodeling — Tags: , — scottdh @ 6:01 am

Contractors make mistakes - for some readers, that’s painfully obvious. Many contractors take no pride in their work, lots are totally devoid of basic ethics, and some are downright crooks. Then there’s the other type of kitchen and bath remodeling contractor that actually goes out of his way to admit a mistake and things right.

When a remodeling contractor makes a mistake, does he cover it up until he’s gone, or blame it on someone else, or redefine a problem into a feature. Or does he fix the problem even if it eats into his profits. I think you’d agree - you and I pay up when we make a costly mistake, wouldn’t it be nice if your kitchen and bath remodeling contractor thought the same way?

There’s an update to Bathroom-Remodeling-Pictures about how a contractor with pride handles a problem - a mistake that he made. And for his honesty and good will, he’s earned a nice referral. Listen up you contractors out there! We’re fighting back and we aint takin your crap no more.

Home owners - you should read this story at bathroom-remodeling-pictures. It talks about a bad mistake made by the contractor and the astonishing turn of events that took place.

January 14, 2008

Overcoming the tile soap dish dilemma

Filed under: bathroom remodeling, tile — Tags: , — scottdh @ 4:31 am

Simple as it seems, the corner soap dish caused a great deal of grief. It’s a naive assumption that presumes there are plenty of options available to suite your tile color and texture selection. This can prove to be an expensive assumption.

Other custom options are available, but can get quite expensive either because of the actual labor required, or the effect of the labor on the contractors schedule - perhaps even a combination of both.

Contractors work in mysterious ways. Yours might be more specialized in bathrooms and not caught off-guard by this detail. Such a contractor will no doubt include this issue in his quote before the schedule is set - that saves you money. But on the other hand, this contractor will most likely be the most expensive bid due to his specialty in the area.

When you start planning a bathroom remodel, the shower stall details will need hashing out. You can’t go wrong visiting www.bathroom-remodeling-pictures.com for your soap shelf detail needs.

January 13, 2008

Tile grout selection

Filed under: bathroom remodeling, tile — Tags: , — scottdh @ 7:34 am

Grout color selection is a little more important that just matching the color or decor of your remodeling project. Although color matching is the most obvious part of the grout selection process, there are other important factors to consider before choosing the grout colors for your bathroom or kitchen tile project.

Some of the reasons to select one grout over the other are because of clean-ability. Some grouts will hide dirt more than others, but dirt hiding is not the same as clean-ability. Also, some additives make a grout more robust than others, and these additives can be a standard feature of some grouts, while not in others.

Click for full details on selecting tile grout for your kitchen or bath remodeling project.

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