EN ⇄ IT — Renovating in Italy from the U.S.
Manage your Italian renovation from anywhere.
Your architect writes in Italian. Your contractor writes in Italian. You work in English. MonthlyAlerts keeps everyone on the same project.
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Renovating a house in Italy from the U.S. usually means WhatsApp threads with the geometra, voice notes from the impresa, and a spreadsheet only you can read. Decisions get lost, and every misunderstanding costs a week.
On MonthlyAlerts you write each task in English. Your geometra, architect, and crew read it in Italian, tick it off, attach photos, and reply in Italian. Their words come back to you in English. You wake up to progress you can actually read, and a record you can print.
You write it in English. Your impresa reads it in Italian.
- Send the updated electrical layout to the geometra before the SCIA is filed.EN
- Inviare lo schema elettrico aggiornato al geometra prima del deposito della SCIA.IT
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A checklist built for Italy
Start from the Renovation in Italy template: purchase and due diligence (visura, planimetria), permits (CILA, SCIA, Soprintendenza), impianti and the dichiarazione di conformità, utilities (voltura), fiscal paperwork (bonifico parlante, fatture), and closeout (fine lavori, agibilità).
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Photos are your site visit
Your crew attaches photos to checklist items as work happens. You see what got done this week without flying over, and you keep the record for two years.
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A monthly report, in Italian and English
On the 1st, every member gets a status email in their own language: progress, completed work, overdue items. Your contractor writes nothing extra. You stop asking where things stand.
Read before you start
Written for Americans renovating in Italy: how the permits work, what a geometra does, how to read a preventivo, and the questions that save you money.
How to Manage a Renovation in Italy from the United States
A practical playbook for running an Italian renovation remotely: who to hire, which permit you need, how payments and IVA work, and what to check every month.
What Is a Geometra, and Do You Need One?
A geometra files your permits, updates the cadastre, and supervises the works. What the role covers, how it differs from an architetto, and what to ask before you hire.
Italian Construction Terminology for English Speakers
Over 80 Italian building terms grouped by category, with English meanings and notes on what each one signals when it shows up in a quote or an email.
Italian vs American Electrical Systems: What Owners Need to Know
230V, 50Hz, a 3 kW default contract, type L and Schuko plugs, salvavita protection, and the conformity certificate you must not skip. Written for American owners.
Understanding Italian Renovation Estimates
Preventivo versus computo metrico, regional unit prices, IVA rates, the exclusions that blow budgets, payment stages, and how to compare two Italian quotes fairly.
Questions to Ask an Italian Contractor Before You Sign
The questions that separate a good impresa edile from an expensive one: DURC and insurance, scope, timeline, payments, subs, warranty, and closeout documents.
Renovating a Family Property in Italy
Succession, co-owners, cadastral mismatches, unpermitted work and sanatoria, heritage and rural constraints, utilities reactivation, and running it all from abroad.
Italian Kitchen and Bathroom Renovation Checklist
A phase by phase checklist for Italian kitchens and bathrooms: demolition, rough-in, screed and waterproofing, tiling, fixtures, 60cm modules, bidets, hood venting, handover.
Who uses it
- Americans buying homes in Italy
- Families restoring ancestral property
- Second-home owners in Puglia, Tuscany, Sicily, Le Marche
- 1-euro-house buyers
- Architects with U.S. clients
- Geometri and imprese with foreign clients
- Property managers and renovation consultants
- Brokers selling to foreign buyers
It works both ways: Italian professionals invite their American clients and keep working in Italian, while the client reads everything in English. Spanish is on the same project too.
Pricing
$100per project
One project. One payment. Not a subscription.
One-time fee when you activate a project. Build the checklist free, preview it in Italian, then activate to invite your geometra, impresa, and family. Everyone you invite joins free, in their own language.
Free for everyone you invite
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