Every experienced DIY home improvement enthusiast started somewhere, with a first big project. If a kitchen remodel is yours, congratulations! Doing some or all of the work yourself is a great way to save money! There are, however, a few things about kitchen remodeling you really need to know before you begin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If all you\u2019re doing is swapping out some cabinets for new RTA models, or replacing appliances with like models in the same position, you probably won\u2019t need a permit for that. On the other hand, more major modifications will mean checking with your local authority to make sure, and applying for permits as needed. These include things like switching from an electric range to gas or vice-versa, changing anything about plumbing, making modifications to the electrical wiring, adding or removing entrances, exits, or windows, or doing anything involving moving walls or changing the livable square-footage of your house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Be honest about your capabilities\u2014and the amount of time you have to devote to the project. A kitchen is a very important room for day to day life, perhaps even more so than your first instincts tell you. You can mitigate the inconvenience by setting up a temporary area with portable appliances, and non-perishable foods for a long weekend. But what if you don\u2019t quite get done? Can your family live without a kitchen for a week? How about two? How much will that cost in meals eaten out?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Luckily there is an entire spectrum of possibility between totally doing everything yourself, and hiring a contractor to do it and going on vacation. For example, you could order RTA cabinets<\/a> and assemble them yourself, pack up everything in the old ones to get it out of the way, then have a contractor install the new cabinets without as much work required. You could also potentially do the demolition of removing the old cabinets and flooring, then have a contractor install the new components.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you are going to do part of the project yourself, or even think that might end up being the reality if things don\u2019t all go exactly to plan (Hint: Things very rarely go exactly to plan), you really should involve a reliable contractor right from the start. You see, not all contractors are willing to finish a job they didn\u2019t begin. For example, many will be unwilling to deal with a homeowner\u2019s attempt at demolition, or to fix a botched, half-finished attempt at installing flooring or wall cabinets. If they are, it may be at a premium, and end up costing you the same, or even more than it would have to simply hire a contractor in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The good news, though, is that we\u2019ve never met a contractor who wouldn\u2019t be willing to install RTA kitchen cabinets you assembled yourself\u2014it\u2019s not really any different from installing pre-assembled or custom-made cabinetry, after all. Even better, while much of what\u2019s required to remodel a kitchen takes an impressive array of tools, all you need to assemble RTA Cabinet Store\u2019s<\/a> quality cabinets is a simple screwdriver. Assembling them yourself can save you thousands in labor and shipping, and is a fun, easy project almost anyone can tackle, without disabling the existing kitchen while you work on them!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Behind every experienced DIY homeowner is a very first project. If a kitchen remodel is yours, we have some advice inside!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2273],"amp_validity":null,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6316,"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions\/6316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rtacabinetstore.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}If You Might Need a Contractor, Involve Them from the Start<\/h3>\n\n\n\n