The Design Phase
Once the design contract is approved, we officially move into the Design Phase. This is a collaborative stage where we translate your vision into a concrete plan using JobTread for all documentation and communication.
We kick off the process by setting up your project in JobTread. This ensures a transparent line of communication as we begin organizing your ideas and project goals.
The design officially starts here. We take your initial pictures and ideas and begin translating them into a visual format on paper.
We continue to evolve those initial concepts, building out the functional drawings of your project to ensure the layout meets your specific needs.
During this phase, we provide a preliminary estimate of the entire build.
- The Budget Review: If the estimate comes in above or below your budget, we’ll walk through the project with you and discuss ways to adjust — whether that means refining the scope and selections to reduce costs, or expanding them to take full advantage of available budget
Once the general budget is aligned, we move into the selection process to choose your final finishes. By the end of this phase, you will know exactly what your project will look like and exactly how much it will cost to build.
With the design and final costs set, we complete the permit-ready plans and provide the official cost to build (the formal bid vs. the previous estimate). This concludes the design portion of our work.
In the final step, we finalize all documentation and schedule the build phase. Your project is now ready to move from the design board to the construction site!
The Build Phase
The time we’ve all been waiting for, the Build Phase! We did it! You made it!
Our team will begin the build process. The build phase has several important milestone markers:
We’ll conduct a pre-construction conference before any work will start and put down site protection, which begins the deliberate remodel process. We will clean up at the end of each day and record our progress in a daily log.
This is the time you start seeing our trusted field crew on site daily. Demo starts, site protection goes up, framing-windows-doors all start getting installed. All of our subcontractors start beginning their processes on site as well. You start to see the skeleton of your project take shape.
We make sure the project has been built as we agreed. This is when the rough inspections are conducted and approved, and the non-critical path items need to be determined. There should be no changes since this is when things get covered up.
This is everything that happens after drywall — all the visible, touchable, owner-facing elements that turn a framed and drywalled space into a finished home.
We are done!…mostly. All final inspections have passed and you are moving into the space. We make sure everything is as agreed and working properly. A punch list is generated for minor adjustments.
We have taken care of the minor odds and ends from the punch list, and the project is complete. We’re on our way with a high-five, and we will see you again soon!