A whole house is a sequence,
not a set of rooms.
The order is the job.

That we handle the whole thing: the survey, the design, the permit set, every trade, the schedule and the handover. The alternative is hiring trades room by room and coordinating them yourself, which works on a single bathroom and stops working quickly beyond that.

One programme is almost always cheaper per square foot, because setup, protection, permits and mobilisation are paid for once instead of repeatedly. Phasing is a legitimate cashflow decision, not an efficiency one - just plan both phases before phase one starts.

Usually yes, and it lengthens the programme. The work is phased so you always have a working bathroom and somewhere to prepare food, which means some areas are set up, taken down and set up again. We will tell you honestly what that costs in weeks.

The big items - cabinetry, windows, doors, tile and appliances - before demolition, because they carry long lead times and the site cannot wait for them. Smaller selections can follow, but the sequence is set by whatever takes longest to arrive.

Often, and it is one of the most common requests. Whether the wall is load-bearing is established properly rather than assumed. Where it is, that means structural design, an engineer and a permit - and it is entirely routine work.

For layout changes and anything structural, you need proper drawings, and we coordinate the design and engineering as part of the service. For a like-for-like refit of the existing layout, the scope is usually more modest.

Almost always. Once you are into electrical, plumbing, mechanical, structural or window replacement, it is permitted work. Filing it as one coordinated set across the trades is faster than filing separately for each.

Associations frequently have their own rules on working hours, flooring assemblies, plumbing alterations and impact windows, and approval runs on the board calendar. It is worth starting alongside the permit rather than after it.

Tell us at the start rather than letting the plan reviewer find it. It is a solvable problem and it is much easier to solve before a permit application than during one.

Typically the structural work, the rough-in across plumbing, electrical and mechanical, and then finals for each trade. Each inspection gates the work after it, which is exactly why the sequence cannot be rearranged for convenience.

You hear about it the same day, with what it means for cost and programme. Older South Florida homes can carry original drainage, dated wiring or a panel at capacity, and a whole-house renovation is planned with a contingency for precisely that reason.

Demolition and rough-in are genuinely disruptive - loud, dusty, and the period when the house looks worst. From insulation onwards it improves steadily. Barriers, protected routes and containment are planned before any of it starts.

Because two houses of identical size can differ several-fold depending on how many bathrooms there are, whether walls are moving, whether the services are being replaced and what the walls turn out to be hiding. A number before a survey is a guess.

In rough order: moving wet rooms, structural changes, replacing services throughout, impact windows, phasing the work, and the number of bathrooms. Finish selections matter far less than people assume.

Yes. Every honest whole-house project carries one, because opening the walls of an existing house reveals things no survey can see. Deciding in advance how you want to be consulted on those is worth doing.

Final inspections pass, the permit is closed out, then we walk the house with you room by room and agree a snagging list. The list gets finished - that is the part that decides whether the job was any good.

Far less than before it, but not none. Sealed surfaces, silicone lines, and any mechanical equipment all have their own intervals, and we hand over what applies to your specific specification rather than a generic list.

Buildings settle and materials move slightly in the first year, particularly with the humidity swings here. Anything that is our work to put right, we put right.