What Does a Whole Home Renovation Actually Look Like in an Orlando House?

It looks like an empty shell for several weeks. This one came back to bare block on the exterior walls, bare slab underfoot, and scaffolding in the two story room so the crew could reach the ceiling and the upper drywall.

That is the part homeowners rarely picture. A kitchen remodel is one room and a set of finishes, but a whole house is a sequence, and the sequence is the job. Rough electrical had to be in and inspected before any drywall closed a wall. The slab had to be clean, dry and flat before a single plank went down, because a wood look floor telegraphs every high spot in a slab that nobody bothered to grind.

We ran all of it on one contract. Demolition, framing, electrical, plumbing, drywall, tile, flooring, trim and paint, scheduled by us rather than by the homeowner chasing six phone numbers. That is how Statewide Home Remodeling handles every job at this scale, and it is the same approach behind our whole home renovations across Central Florida.

Rolling scaffold tower set up in a two story room so the crew can reach the ceiling and upper drywall

Living room stripped to bare slab with a framed half wall carrying new wiring and packing boxes stacked against it

Photographed as we went

How Did This Orlando Renovation Go From Bare Block to Finished Rooms?

In the order below. Scaffolding and demolition first, then the walls were furred, wired and closed, then the floor went down, and only after that did anything get installed that a homeowner would recognize as finished work. Fixtures come last for a reason. A freestanding tub sitting in a room where drywall is still being sanded is a tub that gets chipped, so it waits. The photographs here were taken by our own crew during the job rather than staged afterwards, which is why some of them are dusty and none of them are flattering. That is what the middle of a renovation looks like.

Access Scaffold up in the two story room. Nothing above head height gets done safely without it.
Rough in Block furred out with treated strips, new circuits pulled, cut outs marked on the block in pencil.
Flooring Spacers holding the expansion gap. Skip them and a floor this long buckles in August.
Primary bath Freestanding tub with a floor mounted filler, which means the supply came up through the slab.
Primary bath Double vanity in. The hex tile runs full height behind it rather than stopping at a splashback.
Finished The same two story room. Stone feature wall, linear fire, and built in niches either side.

Exterior block wall stripped back, furred with treated timber, new electrical cable dropped to a box, cut outs pencilled on the block

What is behind a Florida wall

Why Do Concrete Block Walls Change How an Orlando Renovation Is Sequenced?

Because you cannot simply fish a cable through them. Most Central Florida houses are concrete block on the exterior, and the photograph beside this shows exactly what that means once the drywall is off.

There is no cavity to work in. Every new outlet, switch and light on an exterior wall needs a treated furring strip fixed to the block first, then the cable runs in the shallow space those strips create, then the board goes back over the top. You can see the cut outs pencilled straight onto the block, because on a wall like this the box position has to be settled before anything is fixed. Moving one afterwards means cutting concrete rather than cutting drywall.

That single fact reorders the schedule. Electrical layout gets decided early, on site, with the homeowner walking the rooms rather than looking at a plan. Interior partitions are timber and much more forgiving, so they wait. Anyone quoting home remodeling in Orlando without allowing for block work on the exterior walls is quoting a different job from the one you have.

Freestanding soaking tub on black hexagon floor tile with a brass floor mounted filler and white hexagon wall tile

The room inside the renovation

What Went Into the Primary Bathroom on This Project?

A freestanding tub, a floor mounted filler, a double vanity, and a lot of small tile. The finishes are the easy part to describe and the plumbing underneath them is what decided the schedule.

Look at where the filler stands. It rises out of the floor beside the tub rather than off the wall, so the hot and cold supply had to come up through the slab in exactly the right spot, set before the tile went down and impossible to nudge afterwards. We dry set the tub, marked the center, cut and ran the supply, then tiled around a position that was already locked.

The floor is black hexagon mosaic and the walls are white elongated hex carried to full height. Small tile means a great many grout joints, and every one of them is a chance for a lippage line to show. It is slow work. Our bathroom remodeling jobs get priced with that time in them. To talk through a bathroom of your own, call (407) 508-4052.

Remodeled wood kitchen with a long island and sliding glass doors opening onto a deck

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What Does a Whole Home Renovation Actually Look Like in an Orlando House?

How Did This Orlando Renovation Go From Bare Block to Finished Rooms?

Why Do Concrete Block Walls Change How an Orlando Renovation Is Sequenced?

What Went Into the Primary Bathroom on This Project?

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