Your Home Project May Require the Work Of a New York Remodeling Contractor

If you have a major home remodeling, addition, or new build you will want consider the services of an experienced general contractor in NYC. Whether you need a building contractor, or a home improvement contractor you should know how the General Contractor will work with you. This includes managing and hiring subcontractors, pulling building permits on your behalf, and keeping your project on time and on budget.

Any New Yorker thinking of remodeling their home or office space, you may be wondering whether or not they should use a residential contractor to help them in the process. In our opinion, for a project of any reasonable size, it is essential to hire a good designer, architect and building contractor to plan and execute the project.

Most people understand that the planning stage is relatively inexpensive and do not hesitate to engage someone to help them but often balk at the hiring of a home remodeling contractor. Here are just a few reasons to ignore the impulse and hire a home contractor:

A licensed general contractor offers a lot of value

In the New York area, residential contracting companies – also known as GCs –- are typically used to oversee most home and office remodeling projects. More specifically, the GC is given a set of finalized plans and then asked to turn them into reality. With this responsibility come a number of specific duties. Namely, a licensed GC will not only order the materials and supplies needed at the outset but also hire the subcontractors who will do the actual work. In addition, they will arrange for and making the scheduled payments to both of these vendors and subcontractors. Finally, the GC will interact with the local building authorities to ensure that all of the work is properly permitted and inspected.

Another important aspect of the home contractor’s role is to act as an intermediary between the project owner and the subcontractors. This interaction mostly takes place at two primary times – when the project owner decides that he does not like the quality of some portion of the work and when he decides to make a change.

The owner will simply make their concerns known to the contractor who will then coordinate any fixes or changes. One caveat – the homeowner should be cautious at this stage as authorized change orders are the bane of remodeling projects and can significantly add to their cost as well as delay the completion date.