Where To Not To Find Ideas For Remodeling Your Bathroom
If you happen to mention that you are considering doing up the bathroom, you will be flooded with ideas for remodeling your bathroom. It does not matter if the idea giver is a contractor or not - they have an opinion and they will give it, whether you like it or not. Some people think they know everything just by watching something on television about it. Although home renovations shows like "This Old House" has helped many people with economical home repairs, it also has made armchair experts of thousands of others.
Here is how not to find ideas for remodeling your bathroom.
Anywhere Alcohol Is Involved
Traditionally, it was in taverns or pubs that you found builders and contractors. They would purposefully sit in there knowing potential customers would be looking for them there. If they weren't in the tavern, then they weren't looking to take on any more work at that time. Nowadays, no respectable builder or contractor drums up business this way. However, you will find plenty of ideas for remodeling your bathroom - usually all the wrong ideas. After a few beers, however, even ideas like replacing the shower unit with an elephant and a bucket start to make sense.
Anyone Who Ends With "Trust Me"
The words "trust me" do not mean what they once did, especially when they are connected with any ideas for remodeling your bathroom and not their own bathrooms. Over the generations, "trust me" has become short for "be my human guinea pig." Even if your best friend, even if your lover, even if your mother ends any ideas for remodeling your bathroom with the words "trust me", just nod, smile and then mentally wipe all the ideas from your memory banks.
Anyone In A Suit
Unless the person in the suit has just come from a wedding or funeral, disregard any ideas for remodeling your bathroom form a person in a suit, especially if that suit happens to be a lawsuit. If the person in a suit has recently changed jobs from a builder or plumbing job, then pay attention. Their ideas could be looked into, but be sure that the building codes or material prices haven't changed since they were remodeling bathrooms. If the person in a suit is an architect, completely ignore all of their ideas for remodeling your bathroom. They have history to keep in mind - not your bathroom.
