Kitchen remodeling in Framingham, MA

What the housing in Framingham is actually like

The stock here is the widest range in Ring 2 — dense multi-family and triple-decker housing in the centre, streetcar-era single-families, a large post-war body, and newer development at the edges.

there is no single Framingham project. A downtown triple-decker and a north-side colonial are entirely different jobs with different code requirements, and multi-family work brings separation, egress and life-safety requirements into scope.

Kitchens in Framingham

centre-of-city kitchens are narrow and compartmented. In the post-war stock it is the standard closed-kitchen problem.

That is the part worth settling before cabinetry is chosen. Whether a wall carries load, where the waste stack runs, and what the floor structure will take are the questions that decide what the kitchen can become — and they are answerable in an afternoon on site rather than guessed at from a photograph.

Water, waste and what that means for scope

Municipal water and sewer throughout the developed city, which makes bathroom additions realistic wherever the structure allows.

Working on site in Framingham

Varies enormously. Suburban neighbourhoods are easy; the downtown multi-family stock has limited access, contested parking and staging that has to be planned before day one.

What moves the price on a Framingham project

Multi-family work carries code scope that single-family work does not, and it is the single biggest reason two Framingham quotes can look nothing alike.

A phone quote is a guess. We come out, measure, look behind the surfaces where we can, and send a written scope with a line-by-line price, a schedule, and a clear statement of what is not included. The first thing we check on a house here is the occupancy — single-family, two-family or three-family changes the code requirements, the scope and the price.

If we think the budget is wrong for the work, we say so before anything is signed. And when an older house hides something — which in Framingham it often does — you hear about it the same day, with what it changes and what it costs, before we carry on.

Questions we get asked about Framingham