If you are looking to improve your house in easy and lease expensive way, try to add House Extensions Brisbane with basement. It can be a great way to add some interior space and value to your house. For the completion of this project, you will need the assistance of a licensed and professional contractor as well as lots of preparations. A land surveyor will measure your land to determine the buried utility lines. You have to carefully plan everything to improve your house with extensions and basement. In order to help you, following are some ideas to improve your house with extensions and basements:

• Brainstorm all ideas about the extension and basement. An idea on the paper will help you a lot to explain your viewpoint. Think about the aesthetics and get the original blueprints of your house. You can get an original copy from the builder after paying a nominal fee.
  • Carefully measure your land to check either you can extend your house or not. Take the services of a professional land surveyor to know about the basement. It will help you to know the exact weight your land can support, in case of a rock formation near the surface. You have to know about land rise and fall and either the surface can support your extensions and basement.
  • Do not forget to contact the local power, water, cable and gas companies to know about the location of their pipelines running through your property. For a secure basement dig, it is important to know the exact location of the pipelines, because some construction equipment can crush the underground pipes. After knowing about the exact location of the pipe, you can carefully do your work according to it.
  • Invite local contractors to bid on your construction project, because it may help you to save some cost on the large projects in the larger metropolitan areas. Provide the blueprints, sketches and surveyor reports to each of the contractor and let them to inspect your building and land. Have a separate meeting for each person and ask for the bid prices. Compare the bid prices of each contractor and take a decision carefully. Do not try to go with the cheapest options, because it may not be the best idea for the durability and safety of your house. The house extensions Brisbane should be durable enough, according to construction standards.