Models of cooperation when finishing an apartment – ​​worth remembering!

Two models of cooperation with specialists – one company or a mixed system

If you’re planning to build, renovate, or finish your interior, you can consider at least two forms of collaboration. The first is to hire a dedicated renovation team, and the second is to hire each specialist individually. Each of these options has its advantages and disadvantages, and in this email I’ll try to describe both sides of the coin.

Model 1: Collaborating with a Single Company

One of the biggest advantages of working with the same team is that the same group of people manages the entire project from start to finish. Therefore, if any issues arise, we immediately know who to contact. Furthermore, once we decide to collaborate, we save time searching for additional staff and are relieved of the burden of meticulously planning the entire schedule and scheduling specialists. This significantly saves time throughout the entire project.

Remember that when choosing a single team for the entire project, it’s important to be mindful of your decision. If the collaboration doesn’t go as planned, it will be difficult to abandon it. Furthermore, outsourcing everything comprehensively can (but doesn’t have to) be more expensive than hiring individual specialists.

Model 2: Collaboration with Multiple Tradespeople

This collaboration model is especially recommended for those who would like to complete some of the work themselves. Collaborating with multiple tradespeople requires time to find, communicate with, and properly instruct them. It’s important to remember that they won’t be exchanging information as often as they would within a single team.

In this collaboration model, it’s essential to maintain your own construction journal, as it will help efficiently monitor the entire renovation process. An internal construction journal can be created using a simple calendar, where you can enter progress notes and tradesperson information step by step.

It’s worth noting that while collaborating with multiple tradespeople may seem cheaper, it may turn out that individual smaller amounts spent on fees add up to a much larger sum in the end. Furthermore, booking and scheduling tradespeople one by one takes time and extends the entire renovation process. From this perspective, it’s not always the best solution.

Renovation supervision is a service designed to verify the work of the team and ensure everything has been completed in accordance with building regulations and construction practices. Renovation supervision is a great solution if you don’t want to, don’t have the time, don’t like it, don’t know how to talk to professionals or how to verify their performance, and don’t have plans for finishing your apartment.

Furthermore, renovation supervision means that you only have one person to contact regarding renovation matters, who discusses details with the professionals. Depending on the arrangements, this person is authorized by you to make decisions in some respects or is obligated to keep you updated on any changes. The supervisor’s goal is to ensure the quality of the work and its compliance with the design.

If you decide to hire a renovation supervisor, remember to verify that the person has the appropriate knowledge in renovation and finishing. During the work, the renovation team asks many questions and requires specific answers, so the experience of the person representing your opinion is crucial.

Design supervision primarily involves relieving the investor of the ongoing selection of accessories and ensuring that everything on the construction site is performed in accordance with the finishing design. Design supervision is handled by the architect who previously designed the given interior (or house). They can be responsible for the schedule and cost estimate, contractor selection and price analysis, and material verification and ordering.

Design supervision offers peace of mind, as the architect performs all work on behalf of the investor to achieve the desired result. Although the service itself accounts for approximately 50-60% of the project price, it saves a significant amount of time and stress during the project. Similar to renovation supervision, design supervision serves the same purpose—the smooth completion of the renovation without any omissions or additional costs.

A pre-acceptance inspection is a service designed to inspect a developer’s apartment or house and identify any internal defects. The pre-acceptance inspection takes place before the developer’s statutory technical inspection. However, it’s important to remember that entering the construction site before the technical inspection may require the developer’s consent. In this situation, the building is still considered a construction site, even if only the documentation is being completed.

During the pre-acceptance inspection, our contractor verifies that the apartment has been properly constructed. Typically, they mark all defects on the floor plan provided by the developer and indicate their exact nature.

During this service, a thermal imaging camera inspection can be performed to identify heat loss, as well as a humidity assessment. Finally, photographic documentation is prepared and attached to the final report.

When is it worth using a pre-commission inspection?

• If we have any doubts about whether our property has been properly completed,
• If we want to expedite the repair process,
• When we want the property to be in the best possible technical condition and don’t want to incur the cost of repairing any defects during the finishing process,