What whole home renovation in Orlando usually means
An enormous share of the housing stock here went up between the 1970s and the 1990s. Those houses share a set of traits, and a renovation of one is largely a renovation of the list:
- Polybutylene supply lines, installed roughly 1978 to 1995. See polybutylene replacement.
- Popcorn ceilings, and terrazzo floors under the carpet that are often worth uncovering rather than replacing.
- Electrical panels and branch circuits sized for a household that owned far fewer things.
- Closed-off kitchens, small bathrooms, and a screened porch doing duty as a living room.
- Single-glazed or early aluminium windows that predate the current hurricane provisions.
The advantage of doing these together is that they share the same walls, the same permit and the same disruption. Repiping a house is far cheaper when the drywall is already coming down.
What a whole-home project includes
Typically the kitchen and every bathroom, flooring throughout, ceilings, interior doors and trim, paint, lighting and electrical, and whatever the mechanical inspection turns up. Often windows and doors. Sometimes a wall comes out. See also modernizing a 1970s to 1990s Florida home.
Living in it, or not
You can stay in a house through a whole-home renovation and people do, but it is worth being honest about what that means: no kitchen for a stretch, dust barriers, and trades in the house most days. If the project includes a repipe or a full rewire, moving out for part of it usually shortens the schedule enough to pay for itself. We will tell you which parts genuinely require an empty house.
Sequence and permits
Whole home renovation is where sequencing matters most, and where the inspection schedule set by Orange County or your city drives the calendar. Rough-in inspections gate the drywall, drywall gates the paint, and a single missed inspection can idle a house for a week. That sequence, with dates, is part of the written scope rather than something you discover as it happens.
Start with a walk-through
Tell us the city the home is in and roughly what you are hoping to do. For whole-home work the walk-through is longer, and it is still free. Request a free estimate.