THE Survival Guide: Home Remodeling (Paperback)
November 25, 2009 by admin
Filed under Remodeling Books
Review
Plesset has excelled at providing information needed by homeowners, designers, and contractors. Clearly explains the entire planning and construction process. — Kate Carbone, HBA newsletterThe book presents the potential remodeler with nine “logical” steps, that will help the reader become a more informed consumer. — Kitchen Bath Design NewsThis is arguably the most practical and best book of its type on the market. — Dan Hays, Statesman Journal
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I am a realtor and so often my clients ask my advise about what it would take to remodel a home. I just send them home with this great book as homework and they come back to me knowing just the right questions to ask and of whom so that they can make educated decisions. This book is different than any other I’ve seen in that it takes the reader step by step through the process of a remodel. It can help you decide if a project is just too big for your budget or experience, or reassure you that you can do what you hope you can do. I highly recommend this book to people who are searching for their first home as well as those wanting to decide between selling or remodeling thier current home. Every realtor and contractor I’ve shown this book to has been impressed.
This book was recommended to me by a construction project manager when I asked about the possiblility of remodeling our home. This book helped my husband and me to figure out what we wanted to do with our home, what was really important to us, and how we should go about accomplishing our remodeling project. It took us from the “dreaming” stage to the “reality” stage. The book has a great questionnaire, with detailed descriptions of the items in question, that my husband and I took separately, then we compared our ideas and desires for our home. This evaluation really cemented our vision, which is helping the design and construction team immensely with our home remodeling project. The book also clearly outlined the remodeling process, with descriptions of projects ranging from DIY to fully contracted, with comparative price lists, possible difficulties with each scenario, and reasonable expectations from hired professionals. The book ends with a fun-to-read case study of an “almost perfect” project, which I found helpful and relatable to our situation. We are now in the midst of our home remodeling project, and I am so happy that I have had this great resource to refer back to and to help me through the details — and I hope to have an “almost perfect” home remodeling story to tell, too!
I purchased this book, based on the reviews I found, here. I liked it so much, I wanted to write a review of my own. I found this one really nasty review, and, honestly, I just don’t understand it.
I find the book very helpful. It has walked me through my own remodeling project in a very helpful way. I believe the author truly knows the business, and that the data in the book is accurate. I found the questionaires helpful in defining what I wanted to do, and the quotes very interesting.