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Trusted Home Remodeling for Fort Lauderdale Homeowners
Home Remodeling in Fort Lauderdale typically costs between $9,000 and $130,000 depending on whether you’re updating a small bathroom or adding a full second story. Most kitchen remodels here run $14,000 to $45,000, while a complete whole-house renovation can push past six figures. At Penhallow Remodeling Fort Lauderdale, Trevor Nash and his team write the price down before any work starts, show up in the window they gave you, and back every project with a 365-day promise to make it right. If you’ve been burned before, call (754) 551-2922 and you’ll get a live person, not a voicemail.
Home Remodeling Contractor
A Home Remodeling Contractor is the general contractor who pulls permits, schedules subcontractors, orders materials, and carries the responsibility for your project from demolition to final walkthrough. You need one when the job touches plumbing, electrical, structural framing, or any work requiring a permit in Fort Lauderdale. Penhallow Remodeling Fort Lauderdale handles kitchens, bathrooms, and whole-home remodels with prices locked in writing: kitchens run $14,000 to $45,000, bathrooms $9,000 to $28,000, and additions $45,000 to $130,000.
Written Price Before Demo Day
We hand you a written number before any cabinet comes out. Not a range, not a ballpark. The number on day one is the number on the invoice, and if something comes up mid-job that changes scope, we talk to you first and put any change in writing too.
Trevor Nash runs every estimate himself, so you’re getting a number from the person who will actually be responsible for the work.
Permits and Inspections Handled
Fort Lauderdale requires permits for most structural, plumbing, and electrical work, and our team pulls them all. We schedule the inspections and we pass them. You don’t chase the city, and you don’t find out six months later that your remodel was never legal.
Styles & brands we work with
Home Renovation
Home Renovation is the broad work of updating an existing home rather than building new, and in Fort Lauderdale it usually means dealing with what the humidity and salt air have done to a house over ten or twenty years. Renovation covers kitchen and bath gut jobs, flooring, drywall, trim, and often the surprises behind walls. A small kitchen renovation starts around $9,000, a primary bath around $9,000, and a full interior renovation spans $45,000 to $130,000 depending on square footage and finish level.
What Fort Lauderdale Humidity Does to a Renovation
We open walls in Oakland Park, Wilton Manors, and Coconut Creek Home Remodeling projects and regularly find moisture damage that a surface-level bid never accounted for. That’s why our written price includes the inspection step first, so the number you agree to reflects what’s actually in your walls.
We use cement board substrate, the moisture-resistant layer behind shower tile, as standard on every wet area. It costs a little more up front and saves you a mold problem three years later.
Renovation With a Real Arrival Window
You’ll get a defined arrival window before every workday, and the same background-checked, uniformed crew shows up within it. If a trade can’t make the day, we call you. The Kingswell Way since 2004 has been simple: say the price before the work, show up in the window we gave, leave the place cleaner than we found it.
Home Remodeling Companies
Home Remodeling Companies in Fort Lauderdale range from one-man operations working out of a pickup to licensed general contractors with a full office staff, and the difference shows up in the estimate. The cheapest bid often wins because it left out the permit line, the disposal fee, or the framing repair. Penhallow Remodeling Fort Lauderdale operates as part of the Kingswell family of companies, and every estimate is a written fixed price, not a starting point that creeps upward.
What Separates One Company From Another
The big tell is whether the company puts the guarantee in writing. We do. Every job includes our 365-Day Done Right Promise: if the work fails inside a year, we come back and fix it at no charge. If a repair fails, the second visit is free, no service call and no re-inspection fee.
A live person answers our phones 24/7. Not an answering service, not a callback window. You call, a human picks up.
Materials That Match the Promise
We install KraftMaid and Wellborn cabinetry, Cambria, Silestone, and Caesarstone countertops, and Kohler and Moen fixtures. These are products with their own manufacturer warranties that layer on top of ours, so the guarantee isn’t just our word, it’s backed by the brands behind the work.
Whole House Remodel
A Whole House Remodel is a gut-and-rebuild of the interior, often down to studs in wet areas and kitchens, and it’s the right move when a Fort Lauderdale home has good bones but outdated systems and layout. In this market, a whole house remodel runs $45,000 to $130,000 for a typical three- or four-bedroom, though a true luxury finish can go higher. Penhallow Remodeling handles these as a single general contract so one schedule, one point of contact, and one written price covers the entire job.
Why a Single Contract Matters
When homeowners in Tamarac, Lauderhill, or Home Remodeling in Hollywood piece out a whole house remodel across separate contractors, the electrical and the tile and the painting all point fingers at each other when a wall isn’t flat. We run it as one contract, so the responsibility never splits. One company, one guarantee, one phone number.
The Order of Operations
Whole-house remodels run in a specific sequence: demo, framing and structural, rough plumbing and electrical, drywall, finishes, cabinets, counters, fixtures. Skipping a step or overlapping trades too early is how a project drags on for eight months. We schedule deliberately and give you a written timeline at contract signing.
Luxury Home Remodeling
Luxury Home Remodeling means higher-grade materials, tighter tolerances, and the kind of finish work that takes time, not shortcuts, and in Fort Lauderdale it’s common along the Intracoastal in neighborhoods like Harbor Beach and Rio Vista. A luxury kitchen with custom cabinetry and Cambria quartz runs $25,000 to $45,000, luxury primary baths $18,000 to $28,000, and a full luxury interior can reach or exceed $130,000 depending on scope. Penhallow Remodeling Fort Lauderdale installs Cambria, Silestone, and Caesarstone countertops with their own manufacturer warranties alongside our 365-Day Done Right Promise.
Where the Money Goes
Luxury work is priced by material grade and installation tolerance. A Caesarstone slab with a waterfall edge requires a fabricator who measures to the sixteenth of an inch and an installer who understands seam placement. We name the product and the fabricator in your written estimate, so you know exactly what you’re paying for.
Fixtures from Kohler and Moen carry their own warranties too. The point isn’t a fancier word on the invoice. It’s that the products behind our guarantee are strong enough that we rarely have to use it.
The Return Visit Is Free
If a luxury finish fails within the year, we come back and make it right at no charge. The second visit is built into the contract, not a favor you have to ask for.
Full Home Remodel
A Full Home Remodel means renovating every room in the house, often including layout changes, and it’s closer to the upper end of our pricing: $45,000 to $130,000 for a complete interior in Fort Lauderdale. This is the job for a homeowner in Dania Beach or Lighthouse Point who likes the lot and the neighborhood but not a single room inside. Penhallow Remodeling Fort Lauderdale runs it as a single general contract with a written price before any work starts.
The Difference Between Full and Whole
Whole house typically means gutting to studs. Full home can mean a complete cosmetic and functional refresh: new floors, new kitchen, new baths, new paint, new trim, maybe a wall moved. The cost difference comes down to how much framing and mechanical work lies behind the walls, and our estimate spells that out line by line.
Check What’s Behind the Walls First
Before we price a full home remodel in a 1960s Fort Lauderdale ranch, we inspect for cast iron plumbing, outdated wiring, and moisture intrusion. These are the line items that blow up budgets when they’re discovered mid-job, and they’re also the exact reason our written price comes after inspection, not before we’ve looked.
Brands We Service
We work extensively with ES Windows and ECO Window Systems, two brands common in Fort Lauderdale’s coastal construction where impact ratings and salt air resistance matter. ES Windows builds aluminum and impact-rated systems that hold up well in hurricane zones, and our installers are familiar with their frame depths and anchoring requirements. ECO Window Systems runs wide in the mid-market here, and we’ve handled enough of their units to know the quirks in their hardware and flashing details.
We also service CWS and Mr-Glass product lines when they show up in remodel scopes. Whether you have ES Windows, ECO Window Systems, or any other make, we can help.
See the difference
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AfterSigns You Need a Pro Right Now
- Water staining on ceilings below bathrooms. In Fort Lauderdale, a slow shower pan leak can run for years before you see the stain, and by then the subfloor is gone. If you see discoloration or bubbling paint, get a contractor in to open the drywall and look. Waiting turns a $500 repair into a $5,000 structural fix.
- Cracked or shifting tile around a shower base. Tile that flexes or grout that keeps cracking means the substrate underneath is moving. That movement usually comes from moisture saturation in the cement board or framing. A professional can tell the difference between a cosmetic grout issue and a failing pan.
- Kitchen cabinets pulling away from the wall or delaminating. In Fort Lauderdale’s humidity, particleboard cabinet boxes swell and fail after 15 to 20 years of exposure. When doors won’t close and shelves sag, you’re past repair and into replacement. A full kitchen remodel runs $14,000 to $45,000, but replacing failing cabinets alone is $4,000 to $13,000.
- Electrical outlets that are warm to the touch. Warm or discolored outlets suggest overloaded circuits or loose connections, and loose connections start fires. Remodeling is the right time to rewire, and the work requires a permit and inspection in Fort Lauderdale. Never ignore heat at an outlet.
- A floor that bounces or slopes more than it used to. In older Fort Lauderdale homes, sloping floors can mean termite damage or failing joists, both of which degrade over time. If you can feel movement underfoot, the structural framing needs an inspection before any finish work happens above it.
Our Process, Step by Step
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We talk on the phone and listen. You describe the rooms, the problem, and what you want when it’s done. We ask about budget range so we can tell you honestly whether the scope fits the number. That phone call sets up the site visit, and a live person answers when you call (754) 551-2922.
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Trevor Nash walks the site with you. We inspect the existing conditions: the plumbing, the electrical panel, the framing in the wet areas, and the moisture levels in walls near bathrooms. This is where we find the real scope, and it’s why our written price only comes after this visit, never before.
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You get a written line-item estimate. Not a range, not a ballpark. We price the scope line by line and put the number in writing with our 365-Day Done Right Promise attached. You sign it, and the number doesn’t change unless you change the scope.
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We schedule with a definite arrival window. The crew arrives on the days and times in the schedule, background-checked and in uniform. Materials get ordered after contract signing so the product lead times don’t stall the job. You’ll know who is in your house every single day.
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We finish, walk you through it, and hand you the guarantee. The final walkthrough is with Trevor, not a junior crew member. If anything isn’t right, it’s on the list and fixed. Then you get the written guarantee, and we don’t disappear after the check clears.
How Much Does Home Remodeling Cost in Fort Lauderdale?
A typical kitchen remodel in Fort Lauderdale runs $14,000 to $45,000 depending on cabinet line, countertop material, and whether the layout changes. A bathroom remodel runs $9,000 to $28,000, with small bathrooms starting around $5,000 and walk-in shower installations at $4,500 to $12,000. A whole-house or full-home remodel lands between $45,000 and $130,000, and additions run the same range depending on square footage. Those numbers assume licensed, permitted work with mid-to-upper-grade materials.
What drives the price up or down: cabinet grade (stock vs. KraftMaid or Wellborn semi-custom), countertop choice (laminate vs. Cambria quartz), whether you move plumbing or electrical, and how much structural work hides behind the walls. Fort Lauderdale houses built before 1980 often carry cast iron drain lines and undersized electrical panels, and correcting those adds real line items. We catch them during the site inspection so they land in the written price, not as a surprise change order.
How to avoid overpaying: get a line-item written estimate instead of a lump sum, ask whether the permit cost is included, and check whether the quote covers disposal and dumpster fees. Our free estimate includes the full scope, permits, materials, labor, and disposal, written out so you can compare it honestly against any other bid.
Our Service Area Near Fort Lauderdale
We serve Fort Lauderdale and the surrounding Broward County communities: Oakland Park, Hollywood, Tamarac, Lauderhill, Coconut Creek, Lighthouse Point, Dania Beach, Ives Estates, Wilton Manors, Broadview Park, and Lauderdale Lakes. Most homeowners reach us within a day or two of calling, and our home remodeling services in Fort Lauderdale cover the full county without trip charges.
Serving Fort Lauderdale, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Fort Lauderdale area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
Frequently Asked Questions About Home Remodeling in Fort Lauderdale
Home remodeling is the process of renovating, updating, or changing the layout of an existing home, from a single bathroom refresh to a full interior gut and rebuild. In Fort Lauderdale, common projects include kitchen remodels ($14,000 to $45,000), bathroom remodels ($9,000 to $28,000), and whole-house renovations ($45,000 to $130,000). Penhallow Remodeling Fort Lauderdale handles the permitting, materials, trades, and final inspection as a single general contract. Call (754) 551-2922 to schedule a free estimate and get a written price before any work starts.
A bathroom remodel in Fort Lauderdale takes about 3 to 5 weeks, a kitchen 6 to 10 weeks, and a whole-house remodel can run 3 to 6 months depending on scope and material lead times. The schedule is set in writing at contract signing, and we give you a defined arrival window for every workday. Delays usually come from permit review or custom material fabrication, and we keep you informed instead of going quiet. Call (754) 551-2922 for a project-specific timeline on your scope.
Kitchen remodels run $14,000 to $45,000, bathrooms $9,000 to $28,000, small kitchens $9,000 to $20,000, and full-home or whole-house work $45,000 to $130,000. These are written price ranges based on common Fort Lauderdale scopes, not loose estimates. We inspect the site first, then give you a line-item written price that includes permits, materials, labor, and disposal. Call (754) 551-2922 for a free estimate, the number won’t change once you sign.
Yes, we work with ES Windows and ECO Window Systems, two of the most common window brands in Fort Lauderdale’s coastal and inland construction, and we also handle CWS and Mr-Glass product lines. Our installers know the frame depths, anchoring, and flashing details specific to each brand. The window share of a remodel often lands between $4,500 and $25,000 depending on impact rating and unit count. Call (754) 551-2922 and we’ll check your specific units.
Emergency work in remodels usually means a failed shower pan, a burst supply line, or water intrusion that’s actively damaging framing, and we respond to those the same day in Fort Lauderdale. A live person answers the phone 24/7, not an answering service. For non-emergency remodel work, we schedule the site inspection within a few days of your call. Call (754) 551-2922 and tell us what’s happening, and we’ll tell you honestly how fast we can get there.
Every project includes our 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing: if the work fails inside one year, we come back and fix it at no charge. If a repair fails, the second visit is free, no service call and no re-inspection fee. On top of that, the product manufacturers, like Cambria, KraftMaid, Kohler, and Moen, carry their own warranties that run alongside ours. Call (754) 551-2922 if you have a question about existing work or a future project.
Before the crew arrives, clear the rooms being worked on, move valuables to a safe area, and arrange a temporary kitchen or bathroom if the remodel takes that room offline for weeks. We bring dust containment and floor protection, and we leave the job site clean at the end of every day. A site inspection comes first, then a written price, then the schedule. Call (754) 551-2922 to start with the free estimate.
Schedule Your Home Remodeling Service in Fort Lauderdale Today
You’ll get a written price before any work starts, a defined arrival window for every visit, and a 365-day guarantee that says exactly what happens if something isn’t done right. Trevor Nash will walk your site, hand you a line-item estimate, and stand behind the work for a full year. Call (754) 551-2922 to schedule your free, no-obligation estimate, and talk to a real person who answers 24/7.
Written by Trevor Nash, Owner at Penhallow Remodeling Fort Lauderdale, serving Fort Lauderdale since 2004.
