Getting Discounts on Home Improvement Materials

May 24
07:24

2010

Eric Vaknin

Eric Vaknin

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There are many ways to save money on home improvement jobs. I will try to give you a few ideas on how to save some money on your home projects. One way to save is to recycle materials.

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There are many ways to save money on home improvement jobs. I will try to give you a few ideas on how to save some money on your home projects.

One way to save is to recycle materials. Most major urban areas have stores that sell used building materials. Most of these materials where installed in another home and business. When that space was remodeled or destroyed the material was saved and brought to these resale shops.

Some items that are normally really good for your project would be ceramic tile. You may have to clean some old dried mastic off the back of the tiles. This is usually fairly easy and can save a tremendous amount of money.

Another great way to save money is to do as much of the remodeling you can by yourself. A good example was when I remodeled my kitchen I bought stock unfinished cabinets. Once I installed the cabinets I had to finish them myself. This took approximately one extra day. However I saved hundreds of dollars over the cost of already finished cabinets.

The biggest way to save money is to plan your projects around the sales at home improvement stores. I once remodeled three rooms in my home at the same time. It took a little longer to get the jobs finished then if I would have just done one at a time. The difference was I saved hundreds of dollars by only working on the rooms when I could get the items needed at a considerable savings because of sales.