Is it possible not to have to move in case of a renovation at home?

The answer is yes, the important thing is to follow some simple rules and organize the spaces in the best way.

Remaining at home, while creating various problems, creates the advantage of being able to check the progress of restructuring operations and, if necessary, allows you to make changes during construction in case there is something that is not coming as you wish.

Here are some tips to follow to experience the renovation in the best way:

1. Project: represents the fundamental phase. The design must consider the technical and economic needs of the owners and the need to continue living at home. It will be important, therefore, to interact with a company that will respect the hardships of the family during this period.

2. Organization: it will be necessary to agree with the restructuring company the order in which to perform the work at home. Workers have the obligation to provide explanations on what are the steps of the construction site and the customer has the choice to proceed in parallel on more points (saving time and money, but making many parts of the house unusable) or whether to give priority to needs of the housing core minimizing the inconveniences but extending the time of restructuring.

3. Calendaring: establishing the most critical days in which it will be preferred to minimize the inconvenience will be essential from the beginning. In this way, in fact, you have the time to also find any temporary accommodation to leave room for the company that can easily carry out its work saving time and therefore saving money.

4. Collaboration: in order to use the basic functionalities of the house, it will be very important to always clean the rooms and make order. This operation will also allow the workers to resume work on the following day more quickly.

Preparation before work

After having planned the interventions to be carried out and after having agreed with the company which are the rooms affected by the restructuring, we will proceed to the release of the same from objects or furniture.

• Frequently used items: store them in boxes or containers from which they can be easily recovered.

• Non-essential items: put them in boxes and put them away in storage areas (garages, taverns, cellars, ...). The important thing is that they are not an impediment to housing.

• Closets: they must be emptied to be lightened and then moved to the center of the room or another room in the apartment. If this is not possible, they will be dismantled and then reassembled later.

• Various furniture (armchairs, small furniture, ...): put them in the middle of the room or take them into alternative rooms of the house.

Coverage and protection of furniture

On the furniture "parked" in the room being renovated, splashes of paint may occur or bumps may occur that could scratch the surfaces.

To protect them you can use a nylon cover or a bubble cellophane (pluriball) which, in addition to protecting from painting, will also protect any impact.

It is very useful to include insurance for any damage caused to furniture to be taken out directly with the restructuring company (Note: not all companies provide this type of service).

Redo the floors without moving the furniture

Obviously, to redo the floors, the ideal is to take away everything that is resting on it.

If this is not possible, you will have to replace the floors without moving the furniture.

This option will obviously lengthen the working time and complicate the task of the workers.

• Lighten furniture and cabinets by emptying the contents in special boxes to be stored in other rooms of the house.

• Moving the same furniture from one side of the room to the other, but waiting for installation times, in fact, on newly laid floors, it is necessary to allow a certain amount of time to pass before you can load weights on them.

• Agree on the choices to be made with the company that will deal with the restructuring and which will help to make the right decisions.

Renovate the bathroom while staying at home.

Unlike other rooms in the house, certainly the bathroom is the most problematic to handle and also the most stressful for the owners of the house.

The toilet is in fact an irreplaceable environment and the works in this area often take place in "sobs" in order to allow the essential accessibility of the toilets. With the replacement of the latter and the floor, however, the bathroom remains unavailable and the company, aware of the inconvenience, always tries to limit the problems to a minimum.

It is therefore a matter of finding a dialogue with the chosen company and a compromise between the accuracy and the precision necessary to calculate the slope of the pipes to avoid future problems and the need for speed to recover the bathroom.

Another banal but always valid advice is to bring a lot of patience as in some moments fatigue and stress could take over.

Renovate home, tax breaks

Taking advantage of the tax incentives of the state for restructuring is very important to amortize the costs to be incurred.

• 2018: 50% incentive valid up to an expense of € 96,000

• 2019: the tax benefit will return to 36% on an expense of € 48,000.

In the Budget Law 2018 the mobile bonus and the ecobonus were extended for works carried out in 2017.

• Furniture Bonus: 50% deduction on furniture and large appliances.

• Ecobonus: deduction up to 65% on all interventions that allow energy savings.

• Green Bonus: deduction up to 36% for all jobs that go to make a redevelopment of gardens, terraces and balconies.

To enjoy the tax benefits you need to pay by bank transfer with all the necessary data to accept the request for deductions:

• the VAT number of the company executing the works

• the tax deduction requested with relative law

• the tax code of the beneficiary of the facilitation

The restructuring bonus can not be combined with the ecobonus, while it is with the mobile bonus.

Conclusion

In the event that the renovation is planned in several areas of the house or in key areas such as kitchen or bathroom, the ideal would be to find alternative accommodation for the duration of the work (relatives, friends, hotel, ...) .

If you can not opt ​​for this solution or do not consider it appropriate to leave the workers alone at home simply need to arm yourself with patience and availability.