What we take on

We take on five things as jobs in their own right. The rest are trades we carry inside a larger job rather than sell on their own, and they are listed here so you can see the whole picture before you call.

Five main services

• 01 Apartment renovationFull and partial renovations, including gut work back to the studs. →
• 02 Kitchen remodelingLayout, cabinetry, services and finishes in rooms that are rarely square. →
• 03 Bathroom remodelingWaterproofing, tiling and fit out, sequenced around the days the room is unusable. →
• 04 Carpentry and millworkBuilt ins, cabinetry and trim made to fit the room you have. →
• 05 Interior paintingPreparation, plaster repair and paint. →

What we carry inside a job

Flooring. Timber, engineered board and tile, including the underlayment your building requires. Most buildings set a minimum acoustic rating and a minimum percentage of floor that has to stay covered. We work to whichever is stricter, yours or theirs.

Drywall and plastering. New partitions, patched openings, and the repair of old plaster that comes with any building of a certain age. In older stock this is often most of the work behind a wall that looks like it only needs paint.

Interior demolition. The strip out at the front of a renovation: what comes out, what stays, and what stays live because the next stage needs it. We are a general contractor rather than a demolition specialist, so we do this as the first phase of a job rather than as a standalone service.

Commercial interiors. Small commercial spaces: offices, studios and shops. The constraints are the same ones as an apartment, with a landlord in place of a board and a trading day in place of a family.

What drywall and plaster work costs

Drywall and plastering are priced by what the wall needs rather than by the square metre. A new partition is framing, board, tape and compound, and the hours depend on the openings in it and the height of the ceiling. A patch costs less than a partition, but it is rarely as small as it looks once the loose plaster around it has been cut back to something sound. Skim coating a whole wall sits between the two.

What moves the number is the state of what is already there. Plaster over masonry that is sound needs filling and a skim. Plaster that has come away from the wall behind it needs taking off and replacing, and that is only known once the old paint and paper are off. So we price drywall repair and new drywall in two lines, the work we can see and the work we find, and the second is agreed in writing before it is done.

How the licensed trades fit in

Plumbing, electrical and gas work is carried out by the licensed trades the city requires for it. We bring them in, sequence them inside the job and check what they leave behind before it is closed up, so you deal with one contract and one schedule rather than four. Where a job needs an architect or an engineer to file it with the city, we tell you at the visit and build their filing into the schedule before the first day of work.

What the work costs

Four guides to what decides the price, written for New York buildings rather than for a national average.

• 01 Home renovation cost in NYCPartial or gut, and why the building moves the number more than the borough does. →
• 02 Kitchen renovation cost in NYCThe five parts of a kitchen price, and the two you choose yourself. →
• 03 Bathroom renovation cost in NYCWhat is behind the wall, whether the fittings move, and the hours your building allows. →
• 04 Interior painting costWhy the walls set the price before the area does. →

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