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Insulating an attached garage can be a huge cost-savings, as well as a huge comfort issue. Above-garage living spaces and attached rooms can be cold if the garage is not insulated. Whether to tackle the job yourself or hire a handyman depends on your time, home-improvement abilities and your project standards. Insulating your garage and rafters on an attached garage, can help reduce your energy costs and keep that room right off the garage more temperate through long, cold winters. For individuals not wanting to deal with the itchy prospect of handling insulation – or simply without the time to tackle such a daylong job – a handyman can tackle this project for you. By insulating the garage ceiling or rafters, you are helping to heat any above-garage living space. It keeps heat from escaping from that living space and it also keeps an unheated garage more temperate all year long. If you are going to have a handyman do the insulation project for you, find one you can trust. Recommendations from family, friends or co-workers go a long way to giving you piece of mind that the individual you pick for the job is reputable and will give you a fair price. If you don't know many people in the area or no one you ask knows of handymen good with insulation work, check websites that rate handymen in your area. People who have had good and bad experiences with handymen in your area will likely have given comments on such sites. Read through those comments. They can give you a good sense of the handyman's work. But be careful of ratings sites where very few people have provided ratings. That small sampling can substantial skew reviews to the positive or negative. Unless someone comes highly recommended by a friend or family member, you probably want to talk to two or three potential workmen before assigning anyone to the project. Regardless of whom you consider to do the work, get references from him or her for similar type jobs – and check those references. Ask the potential workman if he or she would be willing to provide labor only. By purchasing the material yourself, you could save on the project. Even if only covering labor costs know the project will cost you as the individual is not just covering his time costs, but also insurance, vehicle costs and other costs associated with a business. Whether you have someone do the insulation project for you or decide to do-it-yourself, research the job. Know how you want to tackle the project – with top of the line supplies or with more value-oriented goods that still get the job done. Also know your own abilities and standards. If you are not much of a do-it-yourselfer, but can't stand when a job doesn't look first rate, you should probably seriously consider farming the project out. Also be realistic about your time. If you have no room for error, such as only having six hours free for a 5.5-hour insulation job, you may want to rethink your tackling of the project. Giving yourself a strict time limit creates stress which likely will only add to mistakes as you rush to the get the job done. Whether using a handyman or doing the job yourself, having an insulated garage is a huge cost savings and comfort issue. Pick a Austin Handyman who is highly skilled and has years of experience. For more information, visit http://www.angieslist.com
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