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Build New or Remodel Old? - Integrity Construction

If you’re living in an older home and thinking about renovating, it’s not uncommon to be a bit torn between whether to demolish and start from scratch, or whether to repair and remodel. You can also take the middle road and retain some parts of the original house and completely rebuild others.

If the existing house has some structural damage, there’s a pretty good chance that completely demolishing it to build a new home will be a lot cheaper and easier than trying to fix and remodel it. In some cases, repairing major structural damage or modernizing an old home to improve its overall quality has the potential to be very expensive – and there’s a chance it will be a fairly long-term undertaking. You may uncover more big problems as you go too, throwing a well-planned budget out the window.

Demolishing an old house and building a new home has its advantages. Building a new home lets you...

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Integrity Construction 
250 N. Branch Road 
Glenview, IL 60025 
Phone: (847) 827-1296 
Fax: (847) 827-1812
Web: IntegrityConstructionInc.net

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