Websites for kitchen and bath renovators.

It depends more on scope than on square footage. Keeping the layout, reusing the plumbing and electrical locations and choosing stock cabinets with a mid-range quartz keeps a kitchen at the low end; moving the sink to an island, opening a wall and going custom can double it. Bathrooms follow the same rule — a tub-to-shower swap in the same footprint costs a fraction of relocating the toilet and running a new drain. After a site visit we give you a fixed price broken out by trade, so you can see where the money is going and what to cut if it needs cutting.

A bathroom is usually three to five weeks on site, a kitchen six to ten, provided every selection is made and delivered before demolition. Custom cabinets alone run six to twelve weeks from order to delivery, so the calendar starts with the order, not the sledgehammer. We set up a temporary kitchen corner with the fridge and microwave, and keep one bathroom working where the house has two.

If you are only replacing cabinets, counters, tile and fixtures in the same spots, usually not. Move plumbing, add or change electrical circuits, remove a wall or change a window and you do — a building permit from the municipality, an ESA notification for the electrical, and a plumbing inspection. We file them, book the inspections and hand you the paperwork at the end. Unpermitted work surfaces at resale and can void an insurance claim, so we do not skip it to save two weeks.

You can, and some people enjoy it. The catch is that whoever supplies it owns the problem when a box arrives damaged, a faucet is missing its rough-in valve or the tile runs short — and the schedule stalls while it gets sorted. When we supply, we check it, store it and warranty it. If you want to source your own, we give you a spec sheet with the exact rough-in and quantity to order, and we tell you before you buy if something will not work with the layout.

For most kitchens and bathrooms, yes. We seal the work area with dust barriers, run an air scrubber on demolition days, work regular weekday hours and clean up before we leave. The hardest week is demolition; after that it is noise and people in the house rather than mess everywhere. If you have one bathroom and it is the one being redone, we talk about staying elsewhere for the tile and waterproofing week.

A written two-year workmanship warranty on the contract, separate from the manufacturer warranties on cabinets, counters, fixtures and appliances, which we register in your name and pass through. If a door sags, a caulk joint opens or a drain slows down in that window, we come back and fix it without a debate.