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Faccio ristrutturare la casa.

Faccio ristrutturare la casa.
I'm having the house renovated.
From Lesson 209:Making someone do something (fare + infinito)·Italian

Questions & Answers about Faccio ristrutturare la casa.

Why use faccio here instead of just saying ristrutturo la casa?
Using fare followed by an infinitive like ristrutturare creates the causative construction. This means you are causing an action to happen or paying someone else to do it. If you said ristrutturo la casa, it would sound like you are personally doing the manual labor of renovating.
In English we say "I have the house renovated," putting the object in the middle. Can I say Faccio la casa ristrutturare?
No, in Italian the conjugated form of fare and the infinitive verb must stick tightly together. The direct object (la casa) always comes after the verb pair, not between them.
How would I add who is actually doing the work, like "the builders"?
When the causative phrase has a direct object (la casa), the person performing the action is introduced with the preposition da or a. You could say Faccio ristrutturare la casa dai muratori (I am having the house renovated by the builders).
The English translation uses the continuous "I'm having", so why is the Italian in the simple present tense?
The Italian simple present (faccio) is frequently used for ongoing actions or processes. You could say Sto facendo ristrutturare la casa to strongly emphasize that the work is in progress right now, but the simple present is perfectly natural and often preferred.

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