Full Home Remodeling in Miami & South Florida

A full remodel is one project, not a kitchen, three bathrooms and a floor running side by side. Demolition, structure, plumbing, electrical, air conditioning, insulation, drywall, flooring, millwork, stone, paint and lighting are sequenced once, under one schedule, so that no trade undoes another's work and nobody waits for a decision that should have been made a month earlier.

It begins with what the house is today: the condition of the drains, the panel, the ducts, the slab. What we find there shapes the scope as much as the finishes you choose.

Houses built here before the 1980s share a familiar list. Cast-iron drain lines at the end of their life under the slab. Panels and wiring that predate today's loads. Ductwork that has been patched for decades. Additions or enclosed porches built without permits. Moisture where the grade, the stucco or a window has been letting water in for years.

None of it is a surprise if it is looked for. We inspect before we price — and where the age of the house calls for it, we recommend a camera inspection of the drain lines — and what turns up is written into the scope with a number next to it, so it is a line in the budget and not a change order in month three.

Opening a kitchen to the living room, enlarging a primary suite or relocating a staircase starts with knowing which walls carry load and what runs inside them. Structural changes are designed by an engineer, permitted, and executed by licensed trades; we coordinate the drawings, the shoring, the inspections and the sequence around them.

The best time to move a wall is before anything else is decided, and the cheapest place to move it is on paper. Pre-construction exists for that.

In a full remodel the walls are open once. That is the moment to replace supply and drain lines, rewire, add circuits, resize the panel, redesign the air conditioning and insulate. Doing it then costs a fraction of doing it later, behind new stone and millwork.

We price systems as their own lines so you can see what each one costs and decide deliberately — not discover, after the finishes are in, that the old pipes stayed.

A full remodel in Miami-Dade or Broward is permitted work: building, electrical, plumbing and mechanical, each filed by the licensed trade responsible and inspected in stages. Review times differ from one municipality to another, and coastal and historic areas add their own requirements. We map the approval path during pre-construction and schedule demolition against it.

In a flood zone there is one more check. Under FEMA's substantial-improvement rule, when the cost of the work reaches half of the building's value, the whole structure has to meet current flood requirements. It can decide what is feasible on a given house, so we look at it before design goes far.

A gut renovation is faster, cleaner and usually cheaper with the house empty. A phased remodel, with the family living in part of the home, is possible and sometimes the right answer; it takes longer and needs strict dust control, a temporary kitchen and a clear plan for the days without water or power. We lay out both options with their schedules so you can choose.

Design, selections and permits typically take two to four months. Construction runs four to six months for a full interior remodel and eight to twelve when the layout, the structure and all the systems change. Long-lead items — windows, custom millwork, stone, specialty lighting — are ordered during permitting, so they are waiting for the site and not the other way round.