You've had the board saved for three years. You already know the layout you want. What's stopping you isn't the design, it's the number, the weeks without a kitchen, and whether the guy finishes. All three of those are answered below.
Every contractor will show you the after photo. Almost none of them will tell you what February looks like from your dining room, eating off a card table with the fridge in the hallway. Here's the whole thing, week by week, including the parts nobody photographs.
One thing worth knowing before week one: some walls can't come out. If the drawing you've saved needs a wall gone, we'll tell you on the first visit, not in week three.
Before demo we set up a real temporary station somewhere sane, with the fridge, the microwave, the coffee maker and a sink you can actually reach. It doesn't make it fun. It makes it survivable. Anyone telling you a kitchen is a two-week job is either not doing the rough-in or hasn't ordered the counters yet.
Yours would go on here next.
Get My Free QuoteYour kitchen isn't a website, so a number here would be a lie. The proportions aren't. This is roughly how any kitchen breaks down, and knowing it is how you decide what to change when the number comes back bigger than you hoped.
It doesn't have to be. Move the appliances down, keep the cabinets, never touch the mechanicals, and the same kitchen fits a smaller number. We'd rather have that conversation with you than watch you put it off another three years.
Three of these have answers that cost us money. They're here anyway, because you're going to find out eventually and we'd rather it was now.
Sometimes, and if that's the right answer we'll say so. Refacing sound boxes in a layout that works is real money saved.
But if the layout is the problem, refacing gives you a nicer-looking version of the kitchen you already don't like. Doors don't move a sink.
It depends on the size, whether walls or plumbing move, and what you pick for cabinets. Anyone giving you a number over the phone is guessing.
Look at the breakdown above and you'll know the shape of it. Then we come measure, and you get a real number in writing. Free, and yours to keep.
About five weeks. Six start to finish, and the kitchen is gone from Friday of week one.
There's no version where that's shorter, because counters take ten to fourteen days to fabricate and nobody can speed that up. We set up a real temporary station before demo so you're not living out of a cooler.
We'll do the layout. Bring whatever you've saved and we'll tell you what works, what doesn't, and what it'd cost to make the bit you love actually happen.
If you've already got a designer, that's fine too. We'd rather build somebody else's good plan than talk you out of it.
Appliances, absolutely. Buy them wherever they're cheapest and we'll install them.
Cabinets we'd rather supply, and not for the margin. When a box arrives damaged or short, it's on us to fix and the schedule doesn't move. When it's your order, you're the one on the phone for three weeks.
Depends what and when. Changing a tile in week three is a conversation. Moving a sink in week three is a change order, and you'll hear the number before we touch anything.
This is exactly why step one is layout on paper. Everything is free to change until it isn't.
Yes. Any kitchen that moves plumbing or electrical needs one, and we pull it and book the inspection.
The rough-in gets signed off before anything is covered. That signature is what makes it your kitchen instead of the next owner's problem.
You hear about it that day, with a photo and a number, before we go any further.
On a house over forty it's usually old wiring or a drain that was never quite right. It's rarely a disaster. It's always cheaper to know in week two than to find out in year five.
A kitchen doesn't get finished by a crew that bounces between counties. It gets finished by people who are twenty minutes out and have nowhere else to be. That's the whole reason we work a thirty mile circle, and it's why week five doesn't turn into week eleven.
Sitting just outside the line? Ask anyway. The answer is usually yes.
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