kitchen Remodel

[dove]

We have been interviewing contractors to remodel our kitchen. It would be a full gut job and removing a wall to open up the kitchen to the living room. Not moving plumbing or any other major issues.

The last guy who came gave us a timeline and rough cost. It wasn't the price we were surprised at but the length of time he estimated - 6 months! This isn’t normal, right? I figured a couple months maybe 3-4 max, but 6 months is crazy! We live here! We can’t be without a kitchen for half a year! 

How long did your your kitchen remodel take?

[dr.girlfriend]

That sounds CRAZY. We did basically the same thing, except we also moved some plumbing, and I think it was about 6 weeks total? There were some delays because the idiot granite guys cut the counter wrong, but the main part was done in about 4 weeks, and that was just two guys working on it. You're sure he didn't mean weeks? We are knocking down our garage, digging a whole new foundation, and building a master bedroom / bathroom / laundry in its place, along with re-roofing the original and new structure, and our estimate for getting that done is 12 weeks.

[InBetweenDays]

That seems insane. We did an entire house gut, remodel, and add a level (photo of the gut job are in the Major Remodel thread). From the start of demo to us moving in was 8-months.

[thatgirl2478]

6 months? That's insane...

[mrsukyankee]

Nope, 6 months is insane. Our entire gut and build didn't take that long (the work part).

[candreco]

That's nuts. Our kitchen remodel was a full gut, took out part of a wall, rearranged plumbing and HVAC, and they did it in THREE WEEKS for a medium-sized kitchen.

[bullygirl979]

Uhhh...that's crazy. I'm doing the exact same thing with the wall being load bearing. And they have to re-route HVAC. We haven't done it yet but the quotes we got were all between 4-8 weeks.

[k3am]

Insane. I’d expect 4-6 weeks quoted and then it to end up being 6-8 weeks in reality.

Are you sure he didn’t just have a brain fart and say months when he meant weeks??

ETA: our remodel took about 8 weeks to be 95% done, and another 2ish weeks to be 100% done.

[penguingrrl]

It definitely sounds like he misspoke and meant 6 weeks. Because I’ve seen entire houses built from nothing in 6 months.

[dove]

I thought that was a little insane. Thanks for the sanity check!