Budgeting Your Kitchen Remodeling Project

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While remodeling your kitchen you would need to first ensure that you draw up a budget and a detailed item list. Secondly in order to ensure you are within the budget, you should get personally involved in choosing all the major items like granite counter tops etc. Only when you get into the details of understanding about granite tops can you buy the right product at the right price.

Granite tops come in very many varieties and budgets. Knowing what you need and being able to calculate your actual requirement will help you choose the right one of the right size and shade so that you do not end up spending more than what is required and waste money. Buying granite is a costly affair and does not come cheap.

Let us take you through the process of calculating cost of granite countertops so you can better understand everything before making the purchase.

The first step towards getting a fix on price is to select the particular type and quality of granite that you would wish to buy and ensure it falls within your budget at the first instance. Secondly using that as a standard specification, obtain three to four comparative quotes from other suppliers for the same specifications.

Once you have the unit price on hand, the next task would be to calculate the number tiles required for your counter top. Check out the size of the area how big the counter top you wish to have and arrive at the number of tiles required. Now take the unit price and multiply the total number of tiles required to arrive at the total cost.

You can fix the granite top yourself if you are good at such jobs or find a professional to do the job for you. Accordingly you can budget for the other materials required for fixing like grout, sealant, knife and other tools etc. A hardware shop keeper can guide you through the requirement as well as help you with the pricing.

Lastly get a quote from a reliable contractor for material plus labor basis so that you can negotiate and settle the price with him for the job while ensuring that you buy the granite top directly and give it to him for installation.

By buying the granite directly from the supplier, you are ensuring a good buy with right price without having to pay unnecessary overheads.

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