It is typical, when we have a several year old house or we buy a second-hand house that we decide to rehabilitate it, to adapt the house to our needs. But is it a good idea to rehabilitate a house or is it better to buy directly a new one? It is a difficult decision and we want to offer you a global vision of the problem to take the right decision in that situation.

Perhaps the greatest benefits of rehabilitating a house is that you can adapt your house to the new needs of our changing society, which requires a higher level of comfort. Moreover , you can decide to change  the style in which your house has been built, in another one, more modern or more ink or cool. In addition, there are a lot of different levels of rehabilitations: from changing only a bathtub for a shower foot to changing the whole insulation of the house and the general distribution. The impact of a rehabilitation in a house is different depending on the level of the works which we have done in it. Some works in a house are really essential to keep the house in good condition and it is common to make changes in our homes over time.

However, there are strong arguments to suggest that the advantages of rehabilitation in a house can also be disadvantages. One drawback is the cost, the works in a house are far from cheap and you never know when a work in a house ends, every time you begin a rehabilitation at home you don´t know what  the condition in the interior of the walls and in the interior of the floors  is or what is the level of conservation of supply and sanitation networks is either. What is more, if we talk about a structural damage, in those cases, sometimes the rehabilitation of a house is not  a solution and the situation has no remedy.

The rehabilitation of the existing housing stock will be one of the most important fields of work for many professionals and technicians and will be in a near future more important than the construction of new housing. That is the reason why many small and medium sized companies are specializing in it, because their existence depends on it. There are many possible interventions in a house and each one needs different types of professionals to do a good job work and only a few cases where a house rehabilitation is not possible. In addition,  technology in the field of rehabilitation is developed very quickly and it is predicted a future full of success.