We rebuild kitchens and bathrooms in Essex and Union County houses, cabinets, countertops, tile, showers, layout changes and the plumbing and electrical work underneath. Two rooms, done properly.
Cabinets, countertops, backsplash, flooring and lighting, plus the layout changes that make the room work, moving a sink, taking out a wall, building in an island. We handle the plumbing and electrical that comes with it rather than leaving you to coordinate trades.
Kitchen remodeling in North Jersey
Full remodels, shower rebuilds, tub-to-shower conversions, tile, vanities and accessible layouts. The parts you cannot see (the pan, the waterproofing, the blocking behind the wall) are the parts that decide whether the room lasts fifteen years or leaks in three.
Bathroom remodeling in North JerseyPlenty of contractors in Essex County will quote you a kitchen on Monday, a deck on Wednesday and a roof on Friday. There is nothing wrong with that, but it means the crew standing in your kitchen may not have set a cabinet run in months.
We took the other route. Kitchens and bathrooms are where the plumbing, electrical, tile and cabinetry all land in one small room, usually in a house that was built before any of those systems looked the way they do now. Doing that work repeatedly is how you learn that the floor in a 1920s Maplewood colonial slopes almost an inch across the kitchen, that a Newark two-family often has a cast-iron stack you cannot simply move, and that the tub alcove in a postwar Livingston split-level is a standard size you can plan around.
The result is fewer surprises, and honest answers earlier. If your plan will not work, you hear it on the phone rather than after demolition. You can also read what customers have said on Google.
Have a project in mind? Describe the room and we will tell you what is realistic, what it depends on, and what we would do first.
Call (862) 218-7292Each of these is a real part of a kitchen project, not a separate trade you have to hire out.
From a single shower rebuild to taking the room back to the studs.
Remodeling is mostly sequencing. Materials have to be on site before the trades that install them, inspections have to happen before walls close, and one late decision can hold up three weeks of work. Here is the shape of a typical project.
What you have, what bothers you about it, what you want instead, and when. Usually a phone call before anyone drives anywhere.
Measurements, existing plumbing and electrical, what is behind the walls as far as we can tell, and whether the layout you want is possible.
Cabinets, tile, counters, fixtures. Long-lead items get ordered first because cabinetry, not labor, usually sets the calendar.
Applications go to your town's construction office. Plumbing and electrical almost always require them; scope decides the rest.
Floors and pathways covered, the old room out. This is when unknown conditions show up, and when we tell you about them.
Framing changes, supply and drain lines, circuits, venting, blocking for anything that gets mounted to a wall later.
Rough plumbing and electrical get inspected before anything is covered. Nothing closes up until it passes.
Shower pans and membranes, backer board, tile, then cabinets, counters, fixtures and trim in that order.
Caulk, paint, hardware, final inspection, and a walk through the room together with a list of anything left.
We are based in Irvington, which puts most of Essex County and northern Union County within a short drive. Each town page covers the housing there and what it means for a kitchen or bathroom project.
Those are the two rooms we build our schedule around, and it is deliberate. Kitchens and bathrooms carry the plumbing, the electrical, the waterproofing and the tile work, which is where most remodels go wrong. Staying in those two rooms means we have solved the same problems many times over. We handle everything inside the scope of that room, including the framing, plumbing and electrical changes it requires.
A hall bathroom that keeps its existing layout is often three to four weeks of active work. A full kitchen normally runs six to ten weeks once demolition starts, and the biggest variable is cabinetry lead time rather than labor. Moving plumbing, opening a wall or discovering rot behind a shower will add time. We give you a sequence before we start so you know which weeks are loud, which weeks are quiet, and when the room is unusable.
Almost always, yes. New Jersey's Uniform Construction Code requires permits for plumbing and electrical changes, and both are involved in nearly every kitchen and bathroom remodel. Pure cosmetic work like painting or swapping a faucet is usually exempt, but a remodel that touches supply lines, drains, circuits or ventilation is not. Requirements vary with scope and with your town, so we confirm with your local construction office before work begins.
Most clients do. For a single bathroom in a house with another full bath, staying is straightforward. For a kitchen, plan on a temporary setup somewhere else in the house, because the room will be unusable for weeks and the water and gas will be off for part of it. If it is your only bathroom, we talk about that early and sequence the work to shorten the days you have no shower.
We are based in Irvington and work across Essex and Union County. That includes Maplewood, South Orange, Union, Hillside, Newark, East Orange, Orange, Millburn, Short Hills, Springfield, West Orange, Montclair, Bloomfield, Livingston, Elizabeth, Summit, Cranford and Westfield. If your town is close to that list, call and ask.
Tell us what you have, what you want and roughly when. You will get a straight answer about scope, sequence and what the project depends on.