The Minton: Ideas and Renovation – 41 – Timelines

Our main renovation project at the Minton has concluded, with just a few more items to touch-up and fix. At this point, I thought it’d be useful for me to share about timelines, the different phases of our home renovation, task dependencies and the like. This might not be indicative of renovation projects in general, but it’s from our Minton project point of view and our working with our designer. Firstly, the key dates are:

Renovation start date: 28 Feb 2014

Main Renovation end date: 10 April 2014

Total calendar days: 42 days (30 days if deducting Saturdays and Sundays) / 6 weeks

I’ve excluded touch-up work and minor fixes from this period, as we’re likely gonna find additional numerous things as time passes. Most IDs we spoke to in our preliminary discussion and exploration phase last year suggested that our scope of work would require between 4-6 weeks of work, so that our own eventual home project took 6 weeks is within the suggested period. Interestingly, when we first met and spoke to our appointed designer last September, he’d confidently said that our project would take 4 weeks, and it was only later in January this year upon further discussions and planning when that period was extended to 6 weeks. And even with that, things got just a mite rushed towards the end.

We didn’t eventually take on all our items in our intended renovation, but based on what I’ve learned, here’s my list of how long each activity would take and its dependencies.

Keep in mind too that several activities can run concurrently; e.g. ceiling work could run simultaneously alongside tiling work. The time taken for each activity will also depend on the scope of work involved; e.g. a project involving less carpentry than ours will almost certainly wrap sooner too.

Edits:

1. Invisible grills should ideally be done after (not before) the washing if it involves chemicals.