Home Remodeling
Full Home Remodels done properly
A full remodel is a sequencing problem. Done in the right order it is disruptive but predictable; done out of order it is neither.
What this work involves
Whole-house work follows a fixed order for good reasons. Structural and framing corrections first, then rough mechanical, electrical and plumbing, then insulation and drywall, then finishes from the top down so nothing finished gets damaged by what comes after.
The house tells you things once it is open that no walkthrough can. Knob and tube in a wall nobody had opened, a beam that was notched for a duct run, a bathroom that was moved in the seventies and never properly vented. We budget time for that rather than pretending it will not happen.
Living in the house during a full remodel is possible but hard. We will give you an honest answer at the walkthrough about whether it makes sense for your project and your household.
The sequence on a job like this
- Full scope walkthrough and a sequenced schedule before anything starts
- Structural and framing corrections, then rough mechanical, electrical and plumbing
- Insulation, drywall and paint
- Kitchens, baths, flooring and finish carpentry in a planned order
What we look at before quoting full home remodels
Every full home remodels job starts the same way: we look at what the new work has to sit on. Living in the house during a full remodel is possible but hard. We will give you an honest answer at the walkthrough about whether it makes sense for your project and your household.
That is the difference between a number you can rely on and one that moves the moment the first wall comes open. We would rather find the complication at the walkthrough than discover it in week two.
Worth knowing
The thing that usually goes wrong
Starting finishes before the rough work is inspected and signed off. Anything that fails inspection afterward comes back out through the finish.
Most of what separates good work from adequate work is buried by the time the job is done. The substrate under the floor, the studs behind the drywall, the decking under the roof. Those are the parts that decide how the finish holds up, and they are the parts a fast crew skips.
A free walkthrough is the easiest way to find out where yours stands. Book one at (678) 665-7771 or through our contact page. Igor does them himself and does not dress up the answer.
Other home work
All of it is on the home remodeling services page.
Where we do this work
From our base in Roswell we work across Fulton, Cobb, Cherokee, Forsyth, Gwinnett and DeKalb counties. Alpharetta, GA, Marietta, GA and Woodstock, GA are on the list, and the service areas page has the other thirty-nine cities.
Have a look at the gallery for finished work, or call (678) 665-7771 and we will come out.
What moves the number on a job like this
We quote after we have walked the job, never before. Posting a figure here would just give you a guess. What we can do is lay out the handful of things that really decide what a project costs.
Start with the plumbing and electrical. If they stay put, the job is mostly surface work and finish. If a drain or a circuit has to move, we are opening the house up and scheduling trade work around it, which adds time and money.
After the layout question, look at the age and upkeep of the house. Water damage or patched framing behind the finishes will add more time than upgrading a faucet or a tile line.
The permitting side
We handle permits and inspections as part of the job rather than treating them as your problem.
The rules here are not uniform. Six counties means six sets of requirements, and on top of that individual cities within them have their own. We work out what applies before design gets far.
Inspections are useful. They catch exactly the details that cause failures later, and an inspector looking at a ledger connection or a rough electrical run is a second set of eyes we are happy to have.
How we think about materials
There is a version of every product at three price points and the differences are not always where the marketing says. Some of it is genuine performance and some of it is finish options.
The distinction we care about is whether something is buried. Anything behind drywall, under tile or below the waterline gets specified properly, because the cost of replacing it is the cost of tearing the room apart again. Anything you can unscrew later is a preference question.
That means we sometimes talk clients out of upgrades. If a mid-range fixture performs the same as the expensive one, we would rather that money went into the part of the job nobody sees.
After we finish
The end of the job includes a walkthrough where we go over what was done and what it needs from you, which is usually not much.
The parts worth attention are the wet joints, the exterior drainage and anything that moves. Everything else is built to be left alone.
If something needs looking at later, call. Knowing what is behind the finish is worth something, and we do.
Questions people ask
Can we live here during the work?
It is possible but hard, and we will give you an honest read at the walkthrough. Losing the kitchen and every bathroom at once is different from losing one room.
What order does the work happen in?
Structure first, then rough mechanical, electrical and plumbing, then insulation and drywall, then finishes from the top down. Starting finishes before the rough work is signed off means tearing them back out if anything fails inspection.
What does a full home remodel actually include?
Usually every finish surface, the kitchen and baths, often the flooring throughout, and whatever framing, electrical and plumbing corrections the house needs along the way.
Will we be able to live in the house during the work?
Most families stay put during a one-room job, a bathroom or a kitchen say. When the project covers the whole house or adds major square footage, staying gets harder, and we will say so plainly before you commit.
How long does a project like this take?
It depends on scope and on what we find when we open things up. A single bathroom is usually a few weeks; a full home remodel runs months. We give you a real schedule after the walkthrough, and we tell you when it moves.
Who is actually on site?
The people you met at the walkthrough. Igor stays hands-on, so when you have a question at the job site, the answer comes from someone holding the tools.
Let us take a look at your full home remodels project
The walkthrough is free and Igor does it himself. Set it up at (678) 665-7771 or through the contact page. He left a company doing about five hundred remodels a month because the work got worse as the numbers went up, and that is why we cap how many jobs we run at once.