Whole-Home Renovation in Cleveland’s Eastern Suburbs

A whole-house renovation in a 1950s Orange Village colonial or a Shaker Heights landmark is a stack of permits, not a single mood. One estimate holds every trade. One change-order rule. One registration check in the city where the house sits. NIR is registered in Orange Village; other cities are registered before the first inspection there.

Roman is the name on the estimate and the person who walks the house. Trade partners cover mechanical, electrical, plumbing, roof, and finishes under that contract. Phasing so a household can live in part of the house is a plan — and it costs more than a vacant house because protection, temporary kitchens, and sequenced inspections are lines.

Ohio Revised Code 4722 is the statute on jobs over $25,000: written contract, 10% down-payment cap before work starts, notice before extras over $5,000, insurance in the file. Whole-home work is where those rules matter. A handshake on a house this size is how people lose rooms.

Sequence is the craft. A kitchen cannot set stone before the boxes. A bath cannot tile before the pan hold. An occupied house cannot sand floors in the room that is still the only kitchen. We write the order. We do not write a single “12-week renovation” because that number would be a guess.

Hazardous materials on pre-1978 houses — lead-safe work, asbestos testing if we will cut plaster or tile that might contain it — are listed when they apply. They are not buried in demolition. If testing is out of scope, it is out of scope in writing, and the work that would disturb that material does not start.