How to Avoid the Three Most Common Risks When Renovating Your Establishment

Along with your menu, value, and customer service, your store environment is one of the most critical business elements for success. But, making changes to your store can be a risky proposition with worries of impacting your business or your bottom line. These risks might be keeping you from choosing a particular millwork provider or from making the changes in the first place.

At Archmill House, we can mitigate these risks with tried and true solutions for common issues that come up during interior refreshes and renovations. Here are three common risks and how we can avoid them.

Pricing

When getting a quote for services, you want to know that your money is being spent appropriately and that your contractors will stay on budget. During renovations, things can change as unexpected issues surface and wreak havoc on your bottom line. At Archmill, we provide pricing guarantees and our quotes as true to the end cost as possible. We can mitigate pricing risks by:

• Having a strong vendor network with multiple vendors 

• Ordering in larger quantities give us the benefit of volume price reductions, which means savings that we pass on to the customer

• Manufacturing some products in-house, including our solid surface (corian) products

• Working with local vendors and suppliers to reduce prices

Product availability

With supply chain shortages still an issue in 2022, many of our customers worry about getting the products they want, on time. This was a recent challenge during a major interior project we recently did. The wood that was requested is on short supply locally. We reached out to our extensive network and were able to find a comparable product to use that met the client’s design and aesthetic specifications, with no increase to the budget or the timeline. While product shortages are an issue globally, our experienced technicians are able to reach out to find other products that make sense so we can keep the project going.

Many of our clients are international and may source their plans with engineers and designers overseas. Because of this, some products or materials aren’t always available locally. We perform value engineering and can find products that match or are of the same quality, look or have the same properties as the specified product.

Dark Time

When your establishment is closed, your business isn’t making money and to mitigate this, we work in your off-hours, with zero or little dark time, so you don’t have to close or if you do it's for a short time. We can also work around your customers in certain circumstances. In one of our recent projects on a popular coffee shop, the store only had to close to walk-in traffic and we were able to work around their staff while they kept the drive-thru open. We are able to work with your schedule so we can have as little impact on your business operations as possible while getting the job done.

Next steps

Learn more about value engineering and turning your design concepts into reality while protecting your budget.

Contact us to find out how we can mitigate the risks you’re worried about and get your reimage or renovation started.