How We Keep Your Whole-Home Remodel on Schedule
How long will your whole-home remodel actually take?
And will you really get your house back when the contractor says you will?
Those are fair questions, especially if you’ve heard the stories about a project that was supposed to run eight weeks and stretched to eight months.
In this post, we’ll walk through how long a whole-home remodel takes in the Denver area, what moves that timeline up or down, and how we keep the schedule on track once we start.
We build in Highlands Ranch and the surrounding areas, so the examples here come from real projects in homes near you.
How Long Does a Whole-Home Remodel Take in Denver?
A whole-home or multi-room remodel in the Denver area usually takes 6 to 14 or more weeks of construction, depending on the scope.
A kitchen that grows into the surrounding rooms can run around 10 weeks.
A kitchen and addition in Littleton that carried new hardwood across the whole main level ran 13 weeks.
One recent south-wing remodel we completed in Greenwood Village took 15 weeks because the larger scope involved a primary suite tied to several bathrooms and bedrooms.
That scope is what sets the clock, which is why the range is wide.
What Sets Your Whole-Home Remodel Timeline
The timeline comes down to how many rooms are involved, how much structural work the layout needs, and how quickly the design decisions get made.
Scope and the Number of Rooms
For us, a whole-home remodel usually isn’t a full gut of the house.
Most of the time it means working on several connected rooms or a main floor.
The more rooms that join the project, the longer the schedule runs.
Most of our whole-home work starts in one space, usually a kitchen or a primary bathroom, and grows from there.
When new flooring runs into the next room, the trim and paint usually follow, and every connected room adds sequencing to the build.
Structural Work, Permits, and Selections
Structural work and permitting add time.
Removing a load-bearing wall, widening openings, or reframing for new windows means engineering, and on larger projects it means permitted architectural plans before construction can start.
We handle that structural work with our own crew, the way we did on a Park Hill kitchen that needed new steel lintels around an old brick exterior.
Pace of Your Selections
The other variable is you.
The biggest swing in the schedule is how quickly the finishes come together during design, which is partly on us to guide and partly on how fast you want to decide.
How the Design Phase Helps the Schedule
Before we open a wall, we work through the layout, the material selections, and a fixed-price proposal, so every decision is settled before the demo.
That’s what keeps the build from stalling halfway through because tile needs to be picked (maybe for the second time).
We order and stage materials before construction, so the demo only starts when we know what’s going in and when it’s arriving.
How Our In-House Crew Keeps Your Schedule Moving
Our team is on payroll.
We don’t use a rotating set of subcontractors pulled together job by job, so we’re not waiting on someone else’s calendar to reach the next phase.
The same crew works your project Monday through Friday, 7:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., with one project lead on site from the demo through the final walkthrough.
Because our crew works on one project at a time and doesn’t leave until it’s done, our timelines tend to run shorter than general contractors who coordinate subcontractors.
Both owners read the daily logs in your Buildertrend portal every evening, with progress photos posted at the end of each workday, so a schedule that starts to drift gets caught early.
Living in Your Home During a Whole-Home Remodel
For a whole-home remodel, we usually recommend moving out, at least during the messiest stretches.
These projects are disruptive.
Furniture comes out of the affected rooms, the kitchen goes offline during demo and rebuild, and there are days you can’t walk through the work area to reach the stairs.
However, some families still stay through the whole project.
The homeowners on that 15-week remodel lived in the house the entire time, and we made it work by keeping the job site organized around their daily routine.
We sealed the work area off from the entry, ran air scrubbers during heavy demo, and cleaned up at the end of every day, with a deeper reset each Friday.
There Are Fewer Surprises and One Steady Schedule With D&D Remodeling
We keep whole-home timelines predictable by locking every selection and a fixed price during design, then putting our own in-house crew on site Monday through Friday with one project lead from demo to walkthrough.
If you’re considering a whole-home or multi-room remodel, fill out our contact form today or give us a call.
We start with a 60-to-90-minute in-home visit, where we’ll walk the space, talk through scope, and give you a realistic sense of the timeline.
