Planning a Fit Out: a Useful Checklist

Fit-out is an exciting and long-awaited but sometimes incredibly nerve-racking experience. Even if you have been dreaming about it for a long time and mentally prepared for what awaits you in the next couple of months, renovation of your home or office is still very stressful. To reduce anxiety and keep everything under control, use this checklist. Rilco tells how to plan your renovation and what to discuss with a construction company before starting work. Point one: start talking about your expectations. Explain what you like about your home or office and what you want to remove, change, or improve. At this stage, don’t limit yourself to thinking that your ideas are “not real.” Talk, and the builders will find ways to implement your idea or find an alternative. When all the details are agreed upon and the plan is drawn up, check with the manager if the company helps with approval, or you will have to do all about it yourself.  

The First Select team helps in getting the approval. Our team has managers specializing in negotiations with the Municipality and signing documents for our clients. — Galiullin Kamil

  The third thing to talk about is oversight. Do you need such a service, or will you control the work yourself? There is no perfect answer here: maybe you are interested in checking how the team completed tasks daily, or perhaps you value your time and prefer to entrust this task to a professional. Choose the option that is best and most comfortable for you. However, we still recommend that you think about supervision. Supervisors are people whose job it is to control everything 24/7. Such specialists will not miss a single problem. The fourth point is the purchase of materials. Decide whether you want to do it yourself or are ready to entrust the construction company. It is worth remembering that the materials purchased by builders are of higher quality, cost less, and are better suited to solving the tasks. For example, Rilco works with a furniture company that provides unique solutions for our projects. Be sure to discuss deadlines at the end. Moreover, it is important to note not only the date of start and end of work but also to think about intermediate control. The plan should include deadlines for each stage. These five essential points will help you control the situation, reduce the costs, and save time.