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Ask yourself, can you be your own contractor? All the decisions you make about your home - from buying to selling and everything in bet. ween - affect your fami- ly's comfort, happiness, and financial security. Renovating is one of these decisions. Whether or not to manage your own renovation. is another. Let's say you and your family are planning ma- jor home improvements. You think you'd like to save some money by ac- ting as your own general contractor. Should you doit? It's easier to make this decision if you divide that big question into a network of smaller ones. Do you really want the job? Does the challenge of being your own general contractor ap- peal to you? Do you have the time? Is your schedule flexible enough to allow you to be on the site to supervise, accept deliveries and so on? If you're sharing these duties with another member of your family, 'make sure you co- ordinate your efforts so you're not working at cross-purposes. If you're appointing a substitute boss (usually the carpenter) make sure you can be reached if you're needed for an emergency decision. Are you patient and calm? Can you handle a crisis (or two)? Can you make rational decisions under pressure? Are you well- organized? Can you work out a logical schedule for D DURHAM THE REGIONAL MUNICIPALITY OF DURHAM PUBLIC NOTICE Take notice that the Regional Muncipality of Durham is considering AN APPLICATION TO AMEND THE DURHAM REGIONAL OFFICIAL PLAN The amendment, as proposed by the applicant, would permit 9 estate residential lots within the area indicated on the map below. your subcontractors? " Remember that jobs have to be completed in a certain order, and that some have to be done in conjunction with others. For example, you'll need 'to schedule electricians and plumbers to install wiring and pipes while the walls are still open - (but after the insulation has gone in). You'll need them again when the plastering is finished. Do you know compe- tent, reliable tradespeo- ple? If not, are you will- ing to take the necessary time and trouble to find them? This involves get- ting names, interview- ing, checking references, looking at previous jobs, getting bids. Are you assertive enough to supervise the tradespeople you hire? Don't make the mistake of confusing direction with dictatorship. Tact and courtesy and essen- tial if you want to keep the tradespeople you took all that trouble to find. Are you familiar with construction materials and techniques? If not, are you willing to put some time into learning? Are you prepared to go through City Hall if a building permit is necessary? This is one of. the functions normally undertaken by a general contractor. There are real advan- tages in taking charge of your renovation. The most obvious is the money you can save: as much as 30 per cent of the total costs, according J TOWN OF PICKERING _ DAGMAR \ 277. 3 RN Gein Regional Rd No.23 Department by calling Mr Don Hadden. Chairman, Planning Committee In order to assist in the evaluation of the amendment application, the public 1s invited to provide input by way of submissions to the Region's Planning Information related to the amendment application 1s available in the offices of the Planning Department. 105 Consumers Drive, Whitby, Ontario LIN 6A3 or Larry Kotseft. M CIP Planning Department, (416) 668-7731 Submissions concerning the amendment application must be forwarded to the Commissioner of Plann: ing. at the above-noted address. and must be receiv. ed no later than Friday, May 24, 1985 Please include your address and telephone number In any submissions made Dr M Michael, MCIP Commissioner of Planning to some sources. As your own general contractor, you can have almost complete control over the quality of the job. After all, you choose the materials and hire the tradespeople and you're co-ordinating and super- vising every aspect of the work, This can mean a high degree of personal satisfaction and a sense of involvement in your home's transformation. But it can also mean stress and frustration. You can end up losing time and wasting money, by choosing the wrong materials or paying too much for them, by hiring unreliable or unqualified tradespeople, by making mistakes in scheduling. But if you anticipate the problems you can pre- vent them (or at least prepare yourself to cope with them). And there's a suggestion if you're planning to stretch your renovation over a fairly long period of time: take a room-by-room ap- proach. You'll learn by doing, and any mistakes will be on relatively small scale, cheaper to correct and easier to avoid the next time. 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