What Type Of Cleanup May You Need To Do After Your Home Remodel?
If you've finally begun to put your home remodeling plans into motion, you may already be making arrangements for temporary kitchen or bathroom facilities while your home resembles a construction zone. However, one aspect of your remodel you may be overlooking is the cleanup process. Depending upon the contract you signed, you may be responsible for site cleanup and debris removal yourself -- and until you take care of this, your brand-new rooms may be essentially unusable. Read on to learn more about what the specific steps you may need to take after your remodel to ensure your home is restored to better-than-new condition.
When may you need debris removal services after a remodel?
Although many remodeling contractors will include debris removal and site cleanup in their services offered, not all do -- so read your contract carefully if you don't want to be responsible for all the cleanup yourself. In other cases, you may decide you can take care of cleanup yourself for a lower cost, on your own schedule. And finally, you might decide to take the remodeling process as a good opportunity to purge all the excess junk your home may have collected over the years.
Should you enlist a junk removal service or a dumpster rental?
The type of cleanup service you should contact largely depends on the type of debris you're having removed.
- Hazardous material
If the remodel involved any type of potentially hazardous material -- like asbestos tiles or lead paint -- you'll want to contact a full-service debris cleanup company that is EPA-certified in asbestos removal procedures or the management of lead paint. In this situation, you shouldn't attempt to clean up the site yourself. Instead, let the professionals handle this waste so that it can be safely and quickly disposed and your home cleaned.
If you have paint, solvents, batteries, or other toxic materials, you'll want to dispose of these separately from any other items you place in a dumpster. These items can usually be handled by a junk removal service or recycled at a drop-off site in your city or town. And although old tires aren't necessarily toxic, they'll also need to be disposed of separately from other household or garage trash.
- Leftover construction material
If the debris you'd like removed is run-of-the-mill construction material -- extra boards, tiles, or old carpet -- you may want to contact a recycling or junk removal company before renting a dumpster. Much of this debris may be recyclable, which can keep trash out of landfills and put a bit of money back in your pocket (or give you a discount on junk removal services). The remaining debris can be disposed of by the junk removal company, or by you and a few friends after renting a roll-off dumpster.
- Household junk
As with leftover construction debris, roll-off dumpsters can be useful when it comes to throwing away household or garage junk -- discarded bicycles, broken furniture, or outgrown toys that are too worn to be donated. And also as with construction material, you may want to first check to see whether anything should be set aside as recyclable before simply throwing items in the trash.
If you're more interested in minimizing the amount of time you'll need to devote to this cleaning and decluttering project, and less in going the DIY route, you may instead want to contact a local junk removal service. You'll just need to tag the items you'd like removed and then leave the house for a few hours -- you could go shopping or to a movie. Once you've returned, your debris and junk will have just disappeared without a trace. You can click here for more info on dumpster rentals.
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