Home Improvement Consumer Tips
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Wisconsin's home improvement laws protect consumers contracting for improvements including: basements, driveways, landscaping, home alarm systems, water softeners, heating/air conditioning, garages, sidewalks, floor coverings, terraces, patios/decks, swimming pools, and porches.
A contractor must inform you, before you enter into a home improvement contract, of all required building or construction permits. To get a building permit for one or two-family homes built after 1980 (in many municipalities, homes of any age), contractors must be registered with the Division of Safety and Buildings (608-266-3151), showing proof they have paid for worker's compensation, unemployment insurance, and minimum levels of liability or a bond. The liability insurance covers worker and public injuries and damage to property.
If contractors can't show you a registration card, it may mean trouble if you hire them. Some contracts are written to put the responsibility for building permits and insurance on the homeowner. By taking out the building permit, the homeowner has no assurance that the contractor has proper insurance.
Home Improvement – Home Projects – Carpets
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As you can imagine, carpeting offers a number of benefits over other floor material. Again, it adds character and charm but also, carpeting can help warm a room, it helps cut back on noise, and considering the material, it is affordable. Additionally, with carpeting, you can choose from hundreds and hundreds of colors, styles, densities, and other factors.
Type of carpet for you :
Saxony - This actually falls in the cut-pile family but has a nice, level surface with varying twists.
Freize - Although considered somewhat rare, this type of carpet is rugged and has a nubby-like style. The yarns are twisted and the carpet wears well.
Velvet - For this type of carpet, the yarn is short and tight. The result is a carpet that is level, uniform, and smooth. Typically, velvet carpeting would be used in a living room, study, or some other formal room. The one drawback is that when velvet carpeting is walked on, you will see footprints.