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Keep your Home Livable While Renovating a Room

Posted: Friday, July 03, 2009

by Maria Polidoro
http://www.acetoolonline.com/

During the renovation of a room, homeowners usually need the rest of the home to remain functional and livable. For renovations that create a lot of dust and debris, such as demolition, replacing flooring, sanding, painting or carpentry, isolating the work area with a dust barrier is the easiest way to keep dirt and debris from carrying into the rest of the home.

If the area being renovated is somewhat enclosed, such as a kitchen with just one or two doorways that open to other rooms of the home, the job of partitioning the area may be quite easy. You can simply cover the doorways with heavy plastic or cloth to help protect other rooms from dust created in the work area.

Often, however, a work area is not so strictly separated from other rooms, as is the case with an open floor plan with a large connected living space. A work area may need to be divided when there are no walls to contain dust within the area being renovated. In this case, a more creative barrier system is needed.

Barrier products such as the ZipWall system are designed to make it easy to create a dust barrier around an indoor work area. ZipWall barrier products include spring loaded poles for securing plastic from floor to ceiling to make it easy for one person to install. Alternatively, you can attach sheet plastic to the floor and ceiling using your preferred method.

When isolating a room with plastic or other material, be sure not to completely cut off ventilation to the room. Some other tips to help protect the remainder of the home from the mess are:

Add floor mats at the entrance and exit of the work area to reduce dust being tracked throughout the home.
Try to schedule work at times when it is most convenient for the homeowners.
Create a secondary barrier for very dusty jobs by isolating adjoining rooms separately (double up on the plastic barrier).

The process of renovating often does not create the most convenient living situation, but containing the dust to the room in progress can help keep the rest of the home clean and functional. Just keep in mind that it will all be worthwhile when the newly renovated room is revealed.

About the Author: Maria Polidoro is the Founder of Ace Tool Online. Ace Tool is an authorized distributor of hand and power tools from virtually all manufacturers. Please visit Ace Tool Online for Milwaukee cordless tools, Amana router bits and saws, Festool saws, Occidental Leather tool belts and much more.

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