Kitchen Remodeling
Cabinets, countertops, flooring, backsplash, lighting, layout changes, and structural wall removal for open concept conversions. Full scope or cosmetic only. See our kitchen remodeling page for detail.
Home Remodeling Services In Orlando, FL
Statewide Home Remodeling has been working on Orlando homes and commercial properties since 1985. Kitchen remodels, bathroom renovations, full home renovations, commercial buildouts, and more. Licensed general contractor. Spanish-speaking team.
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What's different about remodeling in Orlando
Why Does Remodeling an Orlando Home Require Local Experience?
Two reasons. The climate and the housing stock. Florida's heat and humidity hit building materials differently than they do anywhere else in the country. Moisture works into grout joints, window frames, and drywall paper. Wood subfloors in homes that have had plumbing leaks quietly deteriorate for years before the surface shows it. Tile adhesive loses its bond on concrete slabs that have shifted through freeze and thaw cycles that don't exist here, replaced instead by the slow heave of wet soil. Materials that perform well in Georgia or the Carolinas don't always translate.
Then there's the housing stock. A significant portion of Orlando's residential properties were built during two distinct boom periods: the 1970s to mid 1980s, when the city's growth followed the tourism economy, and the late 1990s through mid 2000s, when population growth outpaced everything. Homes in neighborhoods like Pine Hills, Azalea Park, and Williamsburg sit in that first wave. Baldwin Park and the Lake Nona subdivisions came later. Both generations of construction have their own typical renovation challenges, and a contractor who has spent forty years working across all of them has seen most of those surprises before.
We've been operating in Orlando since 1985, working on properties from Dr. Phillips to Conway to Colonialtown. Call (407) 508-4052 to set up a walkthrough.
What we do in Orlando, Florida
Which Remodeling Services Does Statewide Offer Orlando Residents and Businesses?
Every trade below sits under one general contractor license:
Bathroom Renovation
Walk-in showers, soaking tubs, tile, vanities, fixtures, and grab bar and curbless entry work. One bathroom or several. We've done both.
Home Renovations
Full home remodels, room additions, exterior work, windows, doors, roofing, painting, drywall, and outdoor paver installations. Learn more on our home renovations page.
Commercial Renovations
Restaurant buildouts, hotel renovations, apartment complex updates, school facilities work, and retail interiors. We schedule around your operations. Details on our commercial renovations page.
General Contracting
We pull permits, coordinate every trade, and manage inspections from start to finish. One contract, and one person who answers the phone. See how that works on our general contractor page.
What Orlando homeowners need to know
Do You Need a Permit for a Home Renovation in Orlando?
Most structural work, yes. The short answer is that anything affecting your home's electrical, plumbing, structural elements, or exterior envelope requires a permit through either the City of Orlando or Orange County, depending on where your property sits. The two jurisdictions use different portals and have different review timelines, which matters when you're planning a project schedule.
Properties inside city limits file through the City of Orlando's building division. Properties in unincorporated Orange County go through the county's OC FastTrack system. The distinction catches people off guard when they assume "Orlando" means one permitting office. It doesn't.
We've been pulling permits in both jurisdictions for decades and we file them in house. Renovation work done without the required permits creates complications at resale, during insurance claims, and when refinancing. Lenders and inspectors flag unpermitted work. The cost of pulling a permit is always less than the cost of resolving unpermitted work later. We don't skip that step, and we don't pass the filing off to subcontractors.
Local experience across Central Florida
Which Orlando Neighborhoods Does Statewide Home Remodeling Serve?
We work across Orlando and the surrounding communities. Across the city, renovation needs vary by neighborhood age and property type. Older homes in Colonialtown and College Park often involve original hardwood under carpet, single pane windows, and galvanized plumbing that's past its useful life. Newer construction in areas like Horizon West and Lake Nona tends to involve different challenges: builder grade finishes that wear faster than expected, and HOA requirements that add an approval step before exterior work can begin.
Winter Park sits adjacent to Orlando and is worth a specific mention. Homes there frequently carry higher renovation budgets because the property values support the investment, and older craftsman style homes on brick paved streets like Park Avenue require material choices that match the existing character. We've done that kind of work, and a bathroom remodeling project in one of those houses runs to a different standard than a builder grade rebuild.
- Orlando
- Kissimmee
- Sanford
- Altamonte Springs
- Ocoee
Common questions we hear before the estimate
What Do Orlando Homeowners Usually Ask Before Hiring a Remodeling Contractor?
Depends on scope, permit type, and material lead times. A kitchen remodel with custom cabinets runs six to ten weeks from permit approval to final walkthrough. In-stock materials cut that down. Structural permits in Orange County take longer to review than standard trade permits, and that review window is built into the schedule whether you plan for it or not. We give you the realistic timeline at the estimate, not the optimistic one, because a number we can't hit doesn't help either of us.
For a full gut renovation, sometimes partially. For room-specific work like a kitchen or single bathroom, rarely. We sequence the job to keep disruption contained to the active work area. If a phase will make the kitchen genuinely unusable for a stretch, we tell you exactly when that is before we start, not the morning it happens.
We call you before we act. Pre-2000 Orlando homes hide things: asbestos mastic under old vinyl flooring, galvanized supply pipes corroding from the inside, aluminum wiring in certain 1970s construction. None of those findings are emergencies, but each one changes the scope and the cost. You get the full picture and you decide how to proceed. We don't make those calls for you.
Most structural, electrical, and plumbing work requires one. Whether your permit goes through the City of Orlando's building division or Orange County's OC FastTrack system depends on whether your property is inside city limits or in unincorporated county territory. We determine which applies, file in-house, and schedule the required inspections. You don't track that down yourself.
Yes. We walk the property first, every time, because a number built from square footage and photos alone is a number we'd have to revise once we're on site. The written estimate breaks out labor, materials, and permit costs separately. If there are things we can't confirm until demo starts, we flag them as conditional items so you know what could change and why, before you sign anything.
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