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Kitchen remodeling
Layout, then structure, then the trades: cabinets, counters, plumbing, gas, ventilation and tile in an order that does not double back.
What a full-service contractor takes off your plate
Eight scopes, one contract, one schedule, and one company answering for the seams between trades, which is where remodels actually go wrong.
- Scope
- One bathroom through a whole-house renovation or a commercial build-out
- Contract
- One agreement, one draw schedule that ties payments to finished phases, one point of responsibility
- Permits
- Prepared, submitted and inspected by us, not handed back to you
- Talk to us
- (775) 200-0648, Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
01What you are actually hiring
You are not hiring hands. You are hiring the order they work in.
A single-room remodel touches demolition, framing, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, insulation, drywall, tile, cabinetry, counters, paint and finish carpentry. Each is a separate company with a separate calendar, each waiting on somebody else’s work to be inspected before it can start. Hire them one at a time and you have not saved a general contractor’s fee. You have taken the general contractor’s job, without the phone numbers.
What we absorb is the connective tissue: a scope specific enough that two bidders are pricing the same house, long-lead material ordered against the schedule instead of against the demolition date, a permit set built in the format the reviewing counter wants, inspections booked so a passed rough-in, the sign-off on the plumbing and wiring inside the walls before they close, is followed by drywall that week, concealed conditions priced in writing before anyone repairs them, and a final draw held until the punch list is signed.
None of that shows up in a photograph of a finished kitchen. All of it is the difference between a twelve-week job and the same job in twenty-two weeks.
02One contract
Remodels fail at the seams, so we own the seams.
A seam is any place two trades meet and neither thinks the piece in between belongs to them: blocking for something mounted three weeks later, a duct that has to clear a beam not yet framed, a floor build-up that decides whether a door will swing. Under separate contracts a seam is an argument between two companies who each have a reason it is the other one’s problem, and the referee is the homeowner.
Under one contract it is ours. We hold the subcontracts and we sequence them, and when a handoff is missed the cost of fixing it sits on our side of the agreement rather than arriving on your invoice as somebody else’s extra. That is the whole argument for a general contractor, and it is worth exactly as much as the scope document underneath it.
03The service lines
Eight things we contract for, from one room to a whole building.
Different scopes, the same machinery underneath: written scope, drawn set, permit, schedule, draws tied to milestones, punch list, close-out.
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Bathroom remodeling
Pan, curb, niche, drain, blocking and ventilation resolved on paper before anything is chosen for how it looks.
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Whole-home renovation
Layout, structure, mechanical, finishes and exterior sequenced so the trades never queue behind each other.
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Home additions
Rooms and second storeys tied into a foundation, roof line and mechanical system already standing and already carrying load.
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ADUs and garage conversions
Designed to the rulebook the parcel sits under (city ordinance inside city limits, county code outside), confirmed first.
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Outdoor living
Decks, patio covers and outdoor kitchens built as structures, with footings, attachment details and drainage, not as furniture.
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Commercial tenant improvement
Build-outs for a landlord’s shell and a tenant’s deadline, staged around a building other people still occupy.
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Exterior renovation
Roofline changes, porches, porticos and exterior stairs: the jobs that change the shape of the outside, not just its finish.
04What goes wrong
Four ways a multi-trade job goes sideways, and where the control sits.
The scope was a paragraph. A lump-sum bid that says “kitchen remodel” cannot be compared to anything or argued with later. Control: a line-item scope with named allowances, written before the contract is signed.
Material arrived after the trade did. Cabinetry, tile and specialty fixtures run on lead times that do not care about your start date. Control: long-lead items are pinned during selections, and the schedule is built backwards from them.
Something was found inside the wall. Rot, undersized framing, a drain that was never vented, wiring older than the current code cycle. Control: a written concealed-condition provision. The condition is photographed, priced, and signed before the repair.
Nobody owned the inspection calendar. A rough-in that passes on a Tuesday and gets closed up the following month is three weeks of nothing. Control: inspections are booked against the trade calendar, with the following trade already scheduled.
05Money mechanics
How the money is structured before anyone swings a hammer.
- The scope document
- Line items, not a lump sumEvery trade, allowance and exclusion written down, so you can see what a decision costs before you make it.
- Draws
- Attached to milestones you can look atPermit issued, framing complete, rough-in inspected, drywall closed, not dates on a calendar. The final draw is released after the punch list is signed.
- Contingency
- Set aside, not spentMost homeowners set aside another 10 to 15% for conditions found once work starts. Better held and never needed than met by surprise.
- Change orders
- Written, priced and signed firstA concealed condition, a scope change you ask for, an inspector requirement or a selection over allowance: each is priced as labour plus material plus a stated markup, and signed before the work.
We publish no prices here, because a number without a scope attached is not information. For a kitchen, a bathroom or an addition, the remodel cost calculator gives a planning range to budget against, shows its arithmetic and asks for nothing.
06Questions
Three questions worth asking any contractor.
Kitchen and bathroom sequencing is answered on those pages. These are about how the contract and the schedule work.
One. The scope document lists every trade, the draws attach to milestones you can look at, and we hold the subcontracts. You are not the one chasing an electrician who did not show, or deciding whether the tile setter or the plumber was supposed to go first.
Long-lead items are identified during selections and ordered against the schedule, not against the demolition date. When a delivery slips you hear it the day we do, along with what it moves downstream and what we can pull forward instead.
One person runs the job and answers for it. Crews work a defined path through the house, protection goes in before demolition, and the site is left broom-clean daily. You get one number rather than a list of trade numbers, and it is the number on this page.
07Start a conversation
Tell us the scope. We will tell you what it touches.
The first conversation is not a sales call. It is us working out which trades your job actually needs, in what order, and what has to be decided before anything is ordered.
Fastest way to reach us
(775) 200-0648
Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM. A person answers, and it is somebody who has been on a job site. The form goes to the same place, one business day behind the phone.
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