For homeowners
Home repairs and cosmetic remodeling in Richmond and Lexington, Kentucky
Kitchens, bathrooms, interior repairs, trim carpentry, flooring and basements: finish work inside the layout your home already has. Tell us the room and what you want done; if it’s not a fit, we’ll say so on the call.
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Insuredcoverage documentation on request
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Service-area businessMadison and Fayette County
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Written scope and exclusions before work starts
01Who it’s for
Who this is for
Homeowners in Lexington (Fayette County) and Richmond, KY (Madison County) with a cosmetic interior project: a dated kitchen, a bathroom that needs refreshing, trim and finish work, new flooring, or a basement to finish out. The work sits in the gap between a handyman list and a general contractor’s job. It is bigger than one door and smaller than an addition.
A crew, a truck and a setup day cost the same whether the job is small or large, so every job gets a written scope and a price before anyone starts. How we price explains how that works.
For a commercial building or a rental portfolio, see commercial property maintenance.
02Services
What we do
Kitchens, cosmetic
Cabinet refacing or replacement in the existing footprint, countertops, backsplash, tile, flooring, paint, trim and hardware. The sink and stove stay where they are.
Bathrooms, refreshed
A vanity swapped where one already sits, retiling, new flooring, paint, and fixtures replaced in place.
Interior repairs
Drywall patched, hung and finished. Doors that stick or won’t latch. Damage repair and punch lists before a closing.
Trim & finish carpentry
Interior doors and hardware, casing, base, crown, built-ins, closets and shelving.
Basements & built-ins
Finishing out the space you have, inside the mechanical layout that’s already there.
03How it runs
How a project runs, from the first call to the last walk-through
The same discipline this company uses on a commercial work order, sized for a house. You see the steps, the exclusions and the price in writing before anyone starts.
- The call Tell us the room, the town and what you want done. On the phone you learn whether the job is ours at all and roughly what shape the work takes. A price waits until someone has seen the room.
- The walk-through We come to the house, measure the room, look at what the new finishes will sit on, and confirm which fixtures stay put (all of them). Bring your selections if you have them; if not, this is where the choices get named.
- The written scope Numbered steps in plain language, the exclusions on the same page, and the price against that scope. It is the document you approve, and it is the document the invoice is checked against.
- Selections and materials Cabinet style, countertop, tile, flooring product, paint colors and hardware are named in the scope before ordering, so what arrives is what you picked.
- The work Floors and furnishings protected, the room contained, and the house left usable at the end of each day.
- Changes Anything you add during the job, and anything found once a surface comes off, is written up as a change order and approved by you before it is done. Nothing lands on the invoice by conversation.
- Closeout A walk-through with you, a punch list of anything left to finish, and an invoice that matches the approved scope plus the change orders you signed.
What the written scope leaves out
Every fixture is replaced on the drain and the circuit it already has. Outside the scope: relocating a drain, a supply line or a circuit, which stays with a licensed plumber or electrician instead. Also outside: structural changes, additions, decks, siding, window replacement, roofs, and heating and cooling. Where a project needs one of those, we say so on the call or the walk-through, before a scope is written.
That list is on the estimate itself, in writing, before you approve anything.
04Pricing
What changes the price
There is no rate card on this site, and no price for a room nobody has looked at. What moves the number on a written scope is easy to name, though, and it is worth knowing before the walk-through.
- How much surface there is. Cabinet run in feet, counter area, tile area, floor area. A galley kitchen and an open kitchen are different jobs even when the finishes match.
- What you pick. Refacing cabinet boxes costs less than replacing them. A stock vanity costs less than a custom one. Tile size and pattern change the labor as much as the tile changes the material cost.
- What is under the old finish. Subfloor, drywall and backer board are hidden until the old surface comes off. Repairs found there are written up as a change order, with a price, before the work continues.
- How much you keep. Doors, hardware and trim that are sound can stay. Reusing what the house already has is written into the scope when it makes sense.
- Access and protection. A basement room off a finished hallway takes more covering and more carrying than a room off the garage.
The full reasoning is on how we price.
05Repairs
Interior repairs and punch lists
Home repair work that is too much for a Saturday and not enough for a remodel. Drywall repair: holes, cracks, the patch where a fixture came off the wall, and a ceiling stained by a leak that somebody else has already stopped. Doors that stick, drag or refuse to latch, adjusted or rehung. The punch list a buyer’s inspection produced before a closing, worked through in one visit with one invoice.
Repairs are scoped the same way as a remodel: the list in writing, the exclusions on it, and a price before anyone starts.
06Carpentry
Trim and finish carpentry
Interior door installation and hardware, casing, baseboard, crown, built-ins, closets and shelving. New doors hung in the openings the house already has, fitted and adjusted to close properly, with the casing on both sides. Trim installed, caulked, filled and painted so it reads as one piece with the wall. Built-ins and closet systems built to the wall they go on and finished to match the room.
A new opening in an interior wall, or a wall coming out to join two rooms, is structural. Structural work is an engineer’s question first, outside the cosmetic scope on this page.
07Flooring
Flooring
Luxury vinyl plank, laminate and tile installed through a room or through the house. Hardwood repaired where boards have cupped, split or been cut out, and replaced where a repair is no longer sensible. Transitions and thresholds finished where a new floor meets an old one.
The floor you see sits on a subfloor you do not, and its condition decides more of the price than the product does. It gets looked at on the walk-through where it can be, and anything found once the old floor comes up is a written change order before the new one goes down.
08Basements
Basements and built-ins
Basement remodeling inside the mechanical layout the house already has. The furnace, the water heater, the panel and the drains stay where they are; the walls, ceiling, flooring, trim, doors, built-ins and closets go in around them. That is how a basement becomes an office, a family room or a guest room while every pipe and wire stays put.
Outside this scope: a bathroom added, a drain cut into the slab, or new circuits run for the room. Those need a licensed plumber and electrician before any finish work makes sense. Say so on the call and we will tell you plainly which parts, if any, are ours.
Fixtures get replaced where they already sit
Swapping a sink, a vanity or a fixture for a new one on the same drain and the same supply line is our work, and it covers most of what makes a kitchen or bathroom feel new. Moving where the water comes out is not; that is a licensed plumber’s job instead. Outside our scope too: adding outlets, running new circuits, or opening up a wall, which is a licensed electrician’s work, or a structural one.
Roofs are a different scope as well, handled by a separate company. No page on this site sells a roof.
Ready when you are
Tell us the room, the town, and what you want done
Serving Lexington (Fayette County) and Richmond, KY (Madison County), and the towns between them. The walk-through and the written scope work the same way for a house as for a building: what we ask, and what comes back.