How to save money on home renovations with a home safety net?

Lightweight, highly resistant, malleable, and easy to install even by individuals without specific tools, the living net allows for renovation and development work in a house at a lower cost.

Why should you consider this solution for your interior and exterior work? What makes a living net so interesting?

Let's start with a few obvious aspects that are often overlooked.

Doing the work yourself

Hiring craftsmen or construction companies generally guarantees quality and durable work, completed more quickly and efficiently.

However, anyone who has ever had to do work in their home, in a house or apartment, knows that using construction companies is expensive.

An obvious solution, when possible: doing the work yourself.
Generally, this will be the case for small jobs: interior design, decoration, painting, installing or removing a partition (and not a load-bearing wall) etc.

For this, you still need a minimum of tools, DIY knowledge, and that the planned work does not present major risks. While it is very easy and safe to redo interior insulation and install plasterboard, it is otherwise more complex to install steel IPN beams to create a floor on the upper level of a house.

So if you want to save money and do the work yourself, you need a solution that is easy to implement, as would be the case with a plasterboard partition.

Using cheaper materials

Beautiful wood, natural stone, custom-designed aluminum... All these materials are of very good quality and have a great effect in a house. For a renovation, it's perfect!
But it also costs a lot.

It is therefore often wise to seek a good compromise between using aesthetic materials and the savings to be made.
For certain elements or parts of the house, a cheaper material does not necessarily mean that the house will look "cheap" or "low-end". The project must be well thought out, playing with shapes and structures, seeking to give a new style to your decor.

Choosing lightweight materials

This is generally very often the case: if, for a construction or an alteration, solid and very heavy materials are used, the cost of the project increases considerably.

On the one hand, because the materials themselves will cost more: for equal dimensions, a wooden beam is most often cheaper than a steel beam.

Aluminum being the exception: it is a robust, lightweight, aesthetically pleasing, easy-to-maintain, and... very expensive material!

But the execution of the project must also be taken into account.
Between installing 4 wooden beams and building a reinforced concrete floor, the difference in complexity, time, and cost is enormous. In the first case, a good DIYer will certainly manage it. For the reinforced concrete floor, it is better to call on a specialized construction company!

Thus, if you manage to use lightweight, resistant, and easy-to-install materials, you will make substantial savings on your renovation work.

Why choose to install a living net?

How can we meet some of the conditions mentioned above? Namely, choosing a material that is both robust and lightweight, easy to install, and also economical?

Thanks to the living net!
Have you never heard of it? We'll explain everything!

The living net is a net that can be installed horizontally or vertically, indoors or outdoors, to fill a void.
Nothing to do with a simple fishing net or a net that would be used in the garden. No, and especially not at Corderie Gautier.

We have been specialists in living nets for over 20 years. To guarantee you a product of very high quality, both very resistant and very comfortable, we use a catamaran net. The same one you can see at the front of multihull sailboats.

It is originally designed to withstand sun, seawater, corrosion, and damage caused by a salty environment. The catamaran net also resists the weight of sailors walking on it, as well as the force of waves hitting it. In short, it's tough!
And of course, it should not be complex to install or heavy: it should not hinder navigation.

The living net therefore allows you to benefit from all the advantages of the catamaran net for domestic use! And it's really great.
It can be made to a custom shape, it is light and flexible, and very robust.

Gaining living space with a net

Do you want to regain some space in a house or a loft, but the creation of a solid floor would be exorbitantly priced?
Installed horizontally, our system becomes a mezzanine net that fills a void and creates a space where adults and children can walk or lie down. Our high-end mezzanine nets are very resistant: we had them tested by a control body, with a load of +700 kg! Your children can play on them safely.

Securing a terrace or a staircase

If you install a living net vertically, it forms a tightly woven barrier that allows neither a person nor an animal to pass through. Firmly fixed, it becomes a real fall protection: it is a railing net.
Balcony, terrace, staircase, suspended bed... You can install it anywhere.

This is an excellent tip for saving money on your renovation work, with a high-quality product that you can install yourself.