Whole Home Renovations and Full Interior Rebuilds

For a full gut, yes. There is a period with no functioning kitchen, limited bathroom access, and extended power and water interruptions, and it is neither safe nor pleasant to live through.

If the project is phased so that a wing or storey stays intact, staying in place is sometimes workable. We will tell you honestly which situation you are in during scoping, because budgeting for accommodation matters to the overall plan.

Typically five to nine months on site for a full interior, plus two to four months of design, engineering, and permitting beforehand.

Structural changes, heritage or character considerations, and municipal review times are the biggest variables. We give you a phased schedule at contract signing and update it weekly.

With an itemized estimate broken into construction, mechanical, electrical, millwork, finishes, and allowances, plus a stated contingency. Allowances are set at realistic numbers for the quality level you want, not artificially low figures that guarantee an overage later.

You get a running cost summary through the project, and every change is documented in writing with its cost impact before we act on it.

Yes, and on larger projects we prefer it. We work alongside architects and interior designers regularly and will join the design process early to give constructability and cost feedback while changes are still cheap to make.

If you do not have a designer, we can bring one in or handle the design through our own process depending on the complexity of the project.

Homes built before the early 1990s in BC require a hazardous materials survey before demolition. WorkSafeBC rules are strict and they are enforced.

We arrange the survey as a standard first step and coordinate licensed abatement if anything is found. This is not an area where we cut corners, and any contractor offering to skip it should be treated as a serious warning sign.

Generally yes, though it varies by neighbourhood and by what you spend it on. Kitchens, bathrooms, added legal square footage, and systems upgrades tend to return well across the Lower Mainland. Highly personalized finishes return less.

We are not appraisers and will not promise a specific return, but we will flag during design when a choice is unlikely to be recovered at resale so you can decide with clear information.