Professional Home Remodeling | Newman Homes
Search for what home remodeling costs and every result gives you the same answer, which is that it depends.
- 25+ years in construction, building as Newman Homes since 2017
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What a whole-house or multi-room remodel costs with Newman Homes in Central Maine, priced room by room rather than as one vague total.
Search this question anywhere else and the answer is that it depends. It does, but not on nothing. It depends on the room, the scope, and the age of the house, and every one of those has a band on this page. Kitchens, bathrooms, basements and living space are all listed separately so you can add up your own project.
The part worth planning for is what turns up after demolition. Old wiring, failed plumbing, rot behind a tub, a floor that has been leaking quietly for a decade. On a house past 50 years those are likely rather than possible, and they belong in the budget as a written allowance before the first wall comes down.
What a Whole-House Project Involves
A renovation of this size is several projects held inside one contract, and the contract is the part that protects you.
- A walkthrough before a number. The panel, the plumbing, the framing, and the sills get looked at before anybody talks about paint colors.
- Structure. Load paths, headers, and beams sized before a wall comes out, with temporary support in first.
- Mechanical systems. Wiring, plumbing, and heat resized for the house on the plan rather than the house on the deed.
- Envelope work. Insulation, air sealing, windows, and sill repair, all of which happen before finish work rather than after.
- The rooms themselves. Kitchens and bathrooms, each priced separately so scope can move without reopening everything.
- Sequence. The order the trades run in is what separates a renovation that finishes from one that stalls.
What homeowners say
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We were very pleased with the extensive home remodel we contracted with Newman Homes. Brandon was always very fair with any adjustments to our fixed price contract, and we were quite happy with the outcome.
David K. - ★★★★★
Great company to work with. Very communicative and quick with the work.
Michael M. - ★★★★★
Very quick, efficient, and enjoyable to work with. Everyone was so friendly.
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What Home Remodeling Costs
Here is the honest structure. There is no whole-house rate and no whole-house total, because neither exists in our numbers and inventing one would be a fabricated figure.
Kitchens
| Scope | Range |
|---|---|
| Cosmetic refresh, layout unchanged | $28,000 floor |
| Standard gut, sink and range stay put | $46,000 to $58,000 |
| Gut plus plumbing moved, no wall removed | $60,000 to $80,000 |
| Layout change, wall out with a beam, island added | $85,000 to $105,000 |
| Custom cabinetry and stone on top of a layout change | add $15,000 to $25,000 |
Bathrooms, priced one at a time. A three-bath house is three prices, never one. The floor is $12,000 for a small bath with basic updates, $18,000 to $25,000 for a larger bath, and $25,000 to $35,000 where the tile scope gets serious. Square footage the project adds prices as an addition: around $280 per square foot to start, $320 average, $350 to $400 at the top. The systems between the rooms carry no published band on purpose. A service upgrade, a heating system, insulation, windows, and sill repair get priced off your house and appear on their own estimate lines. Take every figure above as a planning band. Each averages hundreds of estimates, and a real house sits to one side of it rather than on it. Our house remodel cost guide works the composition through with real numbers.
What the Contract Has to Say
Maine has no state licensing standard for remodeling contractors or general contractors. The trades are the exception, and electrical and plumbing work carries a real state credential.
So the paper does the rest:
- Separate lines for each room. It is the only way to see what dropping the second bathroom actually saves.
- Written allowances with unit prices for structural and mechanical work.
- A fixed price under Maine's home construction contract law, which holds the first payment to one third.
- Lead-safe work practice on a pre-1978 house, which is nearly all of them here. The rule is published by the EPA.
- A 2-year workmanship warranty in writing, backed by our A+ BBB profile.
How We Sequence a Renovation
Assessment.
We open enough to see what we are dealing with, and we tell you what we found.
One itemized contract.
Every room priced on its own line, with named allowances for structural and mechanical work.
Demolition and structure.
Everything that touches the frame happens before anything that touches a finish.
Rough mechanicals and envelope.
Wiring, plumbing, heat, insulation, and air sealing, inspected before they get covered.
Finishes.
Board, floors, cabinets, tile, and trim. Paint is last for a reason.
Punch list and warranty.
Written, worked to zero, then 2 years of workmanship coverage.
Remodeling industry practice, including how scope and allowances should be documented, is published by the national association of the remodeling industry.
What Changes the Price After Demolition
Three things move a renovation number more than anything the homeowner picks out.
Whether the plumbing moves. Relocating a sink, a range, or a toilet is the expensive change. Moving cabinets is not.
What the wall is carrying. A wall somebody wants removed is either structural or it is not, and the beam that replaces a structural one is a real line item.
What the electrical service can support. Houses built before 1960 in this service area routinely still have knob-and-tube wiring and an undersized panel, and a modern kitchen needs dedicated circuits.
Under those sit the usual older-house findings: out-of-level floors, layered flooring with lead and asbestos considerations beneath it, subfloor rot at the sink wall, and septic capacity on a rural lot where fixtures are being added.
None of that is a reason to be afraid of a renovation. It is a reason to hire somebody who prices it in advance instead of discovering it with you.
We answer it differently. A whole-house project has no price of its own, because it is the rooms added together plus the systems that serve all of them.
So we price the rooms, and we publish those numbers.
Newman Homes has done this out of Augusta since 2017 under Brandon Roberge, who has 25+ years of building behind him across three states.
94% of our projects finish on the original schedule and the original budget, recounted monthly. On a renovation, where surprises live inside the walls, that figure is harder to earn than it is on a new build.
Common Questions
Often yes, with zoned phasing so one part of the house stays usable. It lengthens the schedule and we say so up front rather than after.
Yes, and on larger scopes it is frequently the right call. Envelope and structural work in one season, finishes in the next.
No. That number does not exist in our pricing and publishing one would be making it up. We price rooms and add them.
It gets repaired at the unit price already written into your contract, counted and shown to you.
Let's Walk the House
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