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Choosing a Home Remodeling Company in Tyler Texas

November 6th, 2009

Call Javier and Josh Rucker at R and R Home Creations – 1-903-348-7227
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When picking a home remodeling company in Tyler Texas it is good to use a company that is insured and bonded. You can also choose a company that is licensed but you will usually pay a few thousand more dollars than if you were to go with a skilled contractor that still is insured and bonded but without the license. There are many home remodeling contractors in Tyler TX that have the insurance but don’t see the benefit in becoming licensed. In most cases choosing a licensed contractor just isn’t necessary unless taking out a very large home remodeling loan where the bank requires that the contractor be licensed.

Before Picture from Home Creations

Before Picture from R and R Home Creations

We had several Tyler home remodeling companies come by our house and give us quotes on things like a new roof, flooring, tiling, painting, door and window installations, custom showers. What we found is that quite a few of these Tyler Texas building contractors would quickly add on things that they could do even when they were really only good at one or two things. You can imagine when we had them do some of these additional tasks they would not be as good at the additional things as what we initially hired them for. This was not the case with a home remodeling contractor we found experienced in several different areas of home construction offering discount prices I just didn’t see elsewhere. Also the level of confidence I had with this construction company had to do with their ability to continually price their jobs right and their attention to detail.

Josh with R and R Home Creations remodeling has experience in turn key home remodeling where they will typically provide a turn key remodel for your major remodeling points in an old house. We found that Home Creations had a great deal of experience in installing flooring, refinishing flooring, drywall, tiling, kitchen and bathroom remodeling, back splash and tile installation, as well as texturing and painting. When buying new doors and windows they can also professionally install these items as well. Their expertise and low overhead allowed us to begin our home remodeling project at a much cheaper price tag than the typical project of this size. They had multiple before and after pictures to show us of turn key home remodeling projects they have completed for half the price I have been quoted by other home building and remodeling consultants.

After Picture by Home Creations

After Picture by R and R Home Creations

This Tyler Texas home remodeling company was very convenient to our budget as they worked with us in completing our project in phases. We wanted the cost savings that comes when hiring a company to do a large job but we needed the entire project to happen over the course of a year as we had the money to pay for it. Josh Rucker with Home Creations has experience in most aspects of a home remodel and when they are asked about a job outside their experience they have affordable people they use to complete such things as electrical and plumbing work.

Call Javier and Josh Rucker at R and R Home Creations – 1-903-348-7227

For specialised home remodeling such as custom cabinets for kitchens and bathrooms we recommend Cupboards Plus. Josh Rucker with R and R Home Creations can come in and do the back-splash using tile above the cabinets and countertops to finish up a kitchen remodel.

Tyler Texas Flooring Installation

October 7th, 2009

One of the biggest eye appealing renovations you can make to a house is to replace the floors. Many people never replace the floors because it is a hard job especially when having to scrape up linoleum tile. Wood flooring materials go for very high prices and so the cost of buying the wood flooring material and paying a Tyler TX wood floor installer and contractor to install the material is outside most peoples budget. Having said all of this discouraging news it can still be done however even if you have a tight budget. If your roof is leaking be sure to get your Tyler homes roof replaced by a company like Advantage Roofing before installing brand new wood floors.

Many people go into a store like Lowes, Home Depot, or Homes Plus and get floors priced. We went into all of these stores and what we found were flooring prices way outside our budget for what we were wanting. Tyler Texas Floor InstallerFloors Plus came out to our house and measured our floors and said they would get back to us on a price but we never heard from them again. Actually about 75% of the contractors we had come out to our house for different job like roofing and other things we never heard from again. I try and be polite and direct as to what I want and I am unsure why so many building contractors have such a weird policy of never calling back.

Well I was a bit frustrated with the prices I had been quoted and the difficulty in getting contractors to follow through until I found a wood flooring store with reasonable prices. I went to Lancaster Texas which is very near Dallas and received some price estimates on some wide plank flooring which seems to be the new trend in wood flooring these days. They had several different wood styles to choose from and even had that etched look on some of them. I was surprised that many of their higher end stuff was priced around $4.50 or less a foot. This was quite a bit less than the $7.50 a foot I was finding at Lowes, Ace Hardware, Homes Plus, and other flooring stores I had visited.

The next step in the flooring process was to find a cheap installer that would do a quality job. I found Eliseo with Texas Floor Installer. He was able to install my floors for much cheaper than I was able to find anywhere else. He used to work for a large wood floor installation company but since then he has went off on his own and can price your floor installation much cheaper than a larger floor installation company. Many of these floor installer companies have a large overhead and a building on the side of the highway. They have to pay for all of that overhead with higher prices to their customers. Eliseo works from his house and has a family owned business where his adult members of his family assists in helping him install the floor.

By using Eliseo you are basically using the same contract labor the larger wood flooring companies in Tyler use but without the added expense. Many of the large flooring material companies in Tyler contract out the labor to people and companies like Eliseo. Why tag on several thousand more dollars to the cost of your Tyler Texas wood floor installation when you have a good recommendation from Tyler TX Directory about a wood flooring installer we have used ourselves with excellent results?

You can learn more about Texas Floor Installer by visiting their Tyler Texas flooring website page.