General Contracting: How Your Remodelers Can Help You

This is what general contracting companies do every day. They know what types of things are going to work and what types of materials to use. If you aren't even sure exactly what you want you can look to them for ideas and suggestions that will help shape your plans. Overall, they are the responsible party for your home remodel or repair.

In Naples Florida, although builders and developers do find considerable lime stone rock formations that require a dynamite operation to fracture the rock so that it may then be excavated, on this site we found mostly a fine silt sandy soil. This allowed us to begin the required excavations without the use of dynamite. However, sand is very porous in order to provide residents with a year-round lake it was necessary to apply a lake liner. On this project the liner was a 50 mil thick rubber material that was laid on the lake bottom in sections. The sides and ends of the fabric are rolled under the bank of the lake.

The sections are each fastened to the previous using a rubber seam compound similar to that used on some EDPM roof installations. This application is complicated by the fact that the pumping and dewatering operation must continue to completion of liner installation. South Florida soils run the spectrum from lime rock, to sand, marl, and muck with sand marl and muck being predominant. For want of load bearing capacity, sand marl and muck is the less desirable of soil types for use as building sites in south Florida.

Even so, early pioneer builders in south Florida found an abundance of high, dry and build able land, namely lime rock (usually found in pine islands). As time went by and development intensified, desirable building sites became scarce while demand was on the rise. Urban development pushed westward into marl and muck. This required an expensive site development process sometimes called demucking. Demucking consists of removing the existing soil type(s) down to an acceptable load bearing strata which are, on occasion, only found at or below sea level. In many cases this operation requires an additional process called "dewatering".

Once the excavation process is completed the builder/developer then trucks in a soil type suitable for building. In one foot lifts, this new material is now compacted to predetermined densities, strengths, and load bearing capacities as well as required elevations. Indeed these processes are very expensive. The percentage of building costs, as compared to site development costs, decreases dramatically. If you are going to paint your home and have decided to do it yourself take a little extra time and spend a bit more money to do it right.

Colours are subjective, but the quality of materials and painting tools are not. For this example we are going to go through the process of painting the interior of a typical home. In just about every paint job I did I insisted that customers used oil based paint on woodwork and doors. Not only does oil paint make wood look and feel better it gives you a superior durable and washable finish that water based latex paint can't. There is nothing worse than seeing a newly painted door or frame ruined by fingerprints and other marks

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