Whole-House Remodel · Chicago suburbs
Whole-House Remodel with a Curved Stair
A whole-house remodel, the kind of job where what gets found before demolition matters more than anything decided after it.
What was behind the walls
The difference between a good remodel and a bad one is almost always what the builder knew before the walls came down. Older suburban houses conceal plenty, and a surprise found in week one is a cost line, while the same surprise found in week six is a schedule problem as well.
Here the approach was to open things knowing roughly what was likely behind them. Written schedule rather than a vague finish date, one crew start to finish, and any change priced before it was built. None of that is complicated. It is just the part most jobs skip.
The short version
- Type
- Whole-House Remodel
- Where
- Chicago suburbs
- Scope
- Remodel of an existing two-story house
- Photographs
- 3
The gallery
A small record of the remodel
Only a handful of photographs survive from this one, and they are shown as they are.
Worth noticing
Three things about this one
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Walls opened with a working idea of what was behind them
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A written schedule in place of a vague finish date
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One crew on this job from start through to completion
Ask what this one cost
We can tell you the budget, the schedule and what went sideways on the way. Every job has something. The useful question is what happened next.