Renovations, start to finish
Many renovations need stripping back to framing. There's no point updating the look if the structure behind it isn't sound.
We help you design the layout, plan the plumbing and electrical, and make sure everything is in place before anything gets closed up.
What we handle
- Hazardous materials testing, based on the age of your home — required for anything built before 1994
- Demolition and framing
- Subtrades: plumbing, electrical and HVAC
- Permitting and inspection coordination
- Flooring, cabinets and countertops
- Down to the last piece of trim and the final paint touch-up
Pricing a renovation
Where the scope is known, we'll give you a firm price. Where it isn't — and with older homes, think Townsite, it often isn't known until the walls are open — we can either give you an estimate with a set contingency built in, or invoice weekly so you know exactly where your money is going.
When a rebuild beats a new build
One of these started as a basic renovation and became something else entirely. Asbestos remediation, chimney removal, and eventually 90% of the framing replaced — along with all new insulation, building envelope, windows, doors and siding, a new bathroom, new plumbing, and a new 200 amp electrical panel.
You might reasonably ask why the owner didn't just build new. Local setback guidelines wouldn't allow it: a storm water connection runs through the middle of the property, and it's a corner lot with roads on two sides. So we worked with the city to permit the whole thing and rebuilt the house in place, including pouring a new foundation under the third of it that had been sitting on deck blocks for around ninety years.
The wall that wasn't structural
Another client had been told by other contractors that the wall between their kitchen and living space was structural and couldn't come out.
We evaluated the trusses and found it wasn't load-bearing — the wall could have gone entirely. But we suggested removing only sections of it, which gave them the open feel they were after while avoiding new flooring on both sides and the cost of matching decades-old drywall texture. Cheaper, faster, and the result they actually wanted.
Renovate for yourself
Your home is your home. Finish it however you like. Design trends come and go — what's your style? What do you actually like?
Don't renovate for resale value. We say that not because we dislike the look of it, but because some people are told the investment isn't worth it in a mobile home. Renovate for you. There's no point owning a home you don't like living in.
A word on flooring
If your contractor doesn't check the flatness and expansion gap tolerances for your flooring before installing it, don't let them install it — or at minimum, make sure they guarantee the work and will stand behind it. They should also acclimate your flooring on site for the length of time the manufacturer recommends before it goes down.
