Condo & Apartment Remodeling in Miami & South Florida

Inside the unit, a condo remodel looks like any other: demolition, rough-in, finishes. Everything around it is different. Materials arrive by a service elevator booked in advance. Work happens within the building's hours. Debris leaves in bins, not in a dumpster at the curb. Water is shut off by the building, on the building's schedule, because the risers serve your neighbours too.

A contractor who treats those as inconveniences loses weeks to them. We treat them as the first chapter of the schedule.

Before any work, the association or its management company reviews the project. A typical package includes the scope and drawings, insurance certificates naming the association, the licences of the trades, a schedule and, often, a security deposit. Some buildings also have their own engineer review plumbing or structural changes.

We assemble and submit that package as part of the project and follow it through. Approval can take from a few days to several weeks depending on the building, so it is the first thing we start.

Almost every Miami condominium regulates what happens when carpet is replaced with stone, porcelain or wood. The rules usually call for an acoustic underlayment with a tested impact rating, and some buildings inspect it before the floor goes down. We confirm the requirement in writing, submit the product for approval and document the installation, so the question never comes back once the floor is finished.

In a high-rise, drains run through the slab into the unit below, and the vertical risers belong to the building. Kitchens and bathrooms can be rebuilt completely; relocating them is limited by how far the drains can reach and by what the association allows. A post-tensioned slab is never cored without locating the cables first.

We establish those limits before design goes far, so the layout you fall in love with is one the building will approve.

Corridors, lobby floors and elevator cabs are protected before the first tool arrives and cleaned every day. Deliveries are scheduled in the windows the building assigns, and large pieces — stone slabs, long millwork panels, glass — are measured against the elevator before they are ordered, not after. Noisy work is concentrated into the hours the building permits.

A full remodel of a two- or three-bedroom unit takes four to seven months on site, after association approval and permits. Restricted hours and elevator access mean a condominium usually runs longer than a house of the same size; we build that into the schedule instead of promising a date the building will not allow.