How long does a whole house remodel take in Minnesota?

It depends entirely on scope: how many rooms change, how much structure moves, permit turnaround from your city, and material lead times. A whole-house remodel is a project measured in months, not weeks, and anyone who gives you a firm duration before seeing your house is guessing. The Minnesota climate is also a real variable, because we sequence the structural and exterior shell to be weather-tight before interior finish starts rather than leaving a wall open in winter. We'll give you a realistic timeline once we've scoped your home on-site.

Do you need one general contractor for a full remodel, or can you hire the trades separately?

You can hire trades separately, but on a full-home remodel it usually means you become the general contractor by default, coordinating the kitchen crew, the framer, the electrician, the plumber, and the roofer so they land in the right order. When one is late, the whole sequence slips, and each crew answers only to itself. A single accountable contractor owns those handoffs so you don't have to. TWS fills that role with in-house employee crews rather than subbing every trade out, which is the whole point of hiring one contractor for a project this size.

Does a whole house remodel require permits in Minnesota?

Yes, for the parts that touch structure, electrical, or plumbing. Any remodel that moves walls, adds square footage, or reworks mechanical systems needs a building permit, plan review, and inspections from your municipality. TWS pulls the permits and manages the inspection schedule as part of the job. Unpermitted work becomes a title and disclosure problem the moment you sell or refinance, so we handle it correctly from the start. Our Minnesota license is #BC773859.

Do you self-perform the work or subcontract it out?

From the office staff to the installers on your property, every TWS team member is an employee, not a subcontractor. On a whole-house project that runs for months, the crews that handle your kitchen, bathrooms, additions, siding, and roofing are TWS employees, and the person accountable to you in week one is still accountable in week twelve. That continuity is the main reason homeowners hire one contractor for a full-home remodel instead of assembling the trades themselves.

Can you handle both the interior and exterior in one remodel?

Yes, and on many homes that's the smarter way to do it. We fold kitchens, bathrooms, and additions together with siding, roofing, windows, and doors into one sequenced project, so the exterior shell is weather-tight before interior finish begins. Doing the interior and exterior as one coordinated job is usually less disruptive and better value than living through several separate remodels over the years. We'll scope the full picture on-site.

Whole House Remodeling Twin Cities

Q: Is a custom home project the same as whole house remodeling?

Yes. "Custom home projects" is the term TWS used on its older service page, and it refers to the same work: a full-home or large multi-room remodel scoped around your specific house rather than a packaged product. Whether you call it whole house remodeling, a custom home project, or a full home renovation, it means one contractor carrying your home from plan through permits, structural work, the trades, and final inspection, with a single accountable team the whole way.

What Whole House Remodeling With TWS Actually Covers in the Twin Cities

Whole house remodeling in the Twin Cities means one contractor carrying your home from a rough plan through permits, structural work, the trades, and final inspection, with a single person accountable the whole way. That's a wider scope than a one-room project, and it's the reason the single-GC question matters more here than almost anywhere else on the job. This page also answers to the term "custom home projects." That's what this work was called on the old TWS service page, and it's the same thing: a full-home or large multi-room remodel scoped around your specific house rather than a packaged product. Whether you call it whole house remodeling, a custom home project, or a full home renovation, the work and the accountability are the same. Here's what a TWS whole-house remodel folds together under one roof:

Kitchens: full kitchen remodels and cabinet refacing, covered in depth on our kitchen remodeling page.
Bathrooms: full bath remodels, walk-in showers, and tub-to-shower conversions, detailed on our bathroom remodeling page.
Additions: bump-outs, dormers, second stories, and sunrooms that tie correctly into your existing structure, on our home additions page.
Exterior: siding and GAF-certified roofing, sequenced so the shell is weather-tight before interior finish begins.
Windows and doors: full-frame window replacement and exterior door installation, folded into the exterior scope.

Want to see where your project fits? Our full services overview breaks out each piece, and a call to (612) 445-4352 gets you a scoped conversation about the whole thing.

Finding the Right Home Remodeling Contractor in Minneapolis and the Twin Cities

The right home remodeling contractor for a full-home project is the one who will be accountable in month three, not just the one with the lowest number on day one. On a whole-house job the real risk isn't price, it's the gap between crews. We've been called in to finish Twin Cities remodels that stalled because the homeowner was managing a kitchen crew, a separate framer, an electrician, and a roofer who each blamed the other for the delay. Here's what we'd tell you to look for in any whole-house contractor, us included: - A Minnesota contractor license you can verify. Ours is #BC773859. - In-house crews rather than a GC who subs every trade to whoever's available that week. Our installers are TWS employees. - A track record in this specific market. We've worked full-home projects across Minneapolis and the west-metro suburbs since 2001. - A straight answer on permits. A code-compliant remodel that touches structure, electrical, or plumbing needs permits and inspections, and your contractor should pull and manage them, not hand you the paperwork. - A quote based on an on-site assessment, not a floor plan. We don't price a whole-house remodel sight-unseen.

"On a full-home remodel you're not hiring a crew, you're hiring the person who stays accountable when the trades have to line up in the right order. That's the whole job."

That's the register we operate in. If you're weighing contractors for a Minneapolis or Twin Cities whole-house project, call (612) 445-4352 and we'll give you a clear read on scope and sequence before you commit to anyone.

How a Custom Home Remodeling Project in Minnesota Is Planned and Sequenced

A custom home remodeling project in Minnesota is really a sequencing problem before it's a finishing problem. The order the trades run in is what keeps the job moving, and it's the part a single accountable contractor exists to manage. We start every whole-house project with an on-site assessment of what you've actually got: load-bearing walls, where the mechanicals run, the condition of the roof and siding, and how the spaces you want to change connect to the ones you don't. From there, a full-home remodel moves through a sequence that has to happen in order: 1. Assessment and scope. We walk the house, document existing conditions, and build a scope of work. No whole-house price comes off a floor plan. 2. Permits and plan review. Any remodel that touches structure, electrical, or plumbing needs a building permit and inspections from your municipality. We pull them and manage the schedule. 3. Structural and exterior shell. Framing changes, additions, roofing, and siding come first so the house is weather-tight before interior work starts, which matters in a Minnesota climate where you don't want an open wall in January. 4. Rough-in. Electrical, plumbing, and HVAC get roughed in and inspected before anything is closed up. 5. Finish trades. Drywall, cabinets, tile, flooring, trim, doors, and paint, in the order that keeps each crew from undoing the last one's work. 6. Final inspection. The completed remodel is signed off as code-compliant and livable. Much of this process we handle directly rather than handing you drawings and wishing you luck with the city. Ready to map out your project? Call (612) 445-4352.

What 25 Years and a Minnesota License Mean on a Project This Size

On a single-room project, the stakes of picking the wrong contractor are contained. On a whole-house remodel they aren't, because the whole house is open at once and the trades all depend on each other. That's where 25 years in this one market earns its keep. We've sequenced full-home projects through Minnesota winters, which means we know not to leave a structural shell open when the temperature drops, and we know how long permit review actually takes in the municipalities we work. The Minnesota license number, #BC773859, isn't decoration on a project this size. It's the thing that lets us pull the permits a whole-house remodel legally requires and stand behind the structural, electrical, and plumbing work to code. Unpermitted work on a full-home remodel becomes a title and disclosure problem the day you sell or refinance, and a buyer's inspector will flag it. We pull every permit and manage every inspection so your remodel is clean on paper for the life of the home. We're BBB accredited, GAF certified on the roofing side, and backed by a 4.5-star rating across more than 1,000 Google reviews from Minnesota homeowners. For qualified customers, financing is available at 0% interest for 12 months with $0 down. And you pay the price we quote. Request a scoped estimate online or call (612) 445-4352 to start with a straight assessment.

Whole House Remodeling in Minnetonka, Hopkins, Shorewood, Eden Prairie, and the West Metro

A lot of the full-home remodel work we do lands in the west and southwest suburbs, where the housing stock is a mix of mid-century ramblers, split-levels, and 1960s-1980s builds that have good bones but dated floor plans. A whole house remodel in Minnetonka often means opening up a compartmentalized main floor and reworking a tired kitchen and primary bath at the same time. Home remodeling in Hopkins and Shorewood runs similar: homes worth investing in, where a full remodel pencils out better than moving. And a whole house remodeling project in Eden Prairie frequently pairs an interior overhaul with exterior work, siding and roofing, so the whole house gets brought current in one coordinated job rather than three separate ones over five years.

"Doing the interior and the exterior as one sequenced project, instead of piecemeal, is usually cheaper and always less disruptive than living through four separate remodels."

We work these neighborhoods regularly, and our Minnetonka service page covers that area in more detail. Whether you're in Minnetonka, Hopkins, Shorewood, Eden Prairie, or elsewhere in the Twin Cities metro, call (612) 445-4352 for a whole-house scope on your specific home.

When a Whole House Remodel Is the Wrong Call

We'll be straight about when a full-home remodel isn't the right move, because sometimes it isn't, and saying so costs us the job but earns the trust.

"Sometimes a full-home remodel isn't the right move. Saying so costs us the job but earns the trust."

If what you actually need is one room brought up to date, a whole-house remodel is overkill. You'll spend on scope, permits, and disruption you don't need. In that case you want a single kitchen or bathroom project, not a full remodel, and we'll point you there rather than talk you into more. If your home has widespread structural or moisture problems, a remodel that just finishes over them is money poorly spent. The honest sequence is to fix the underlying issue first. And if you'd have to over-build well past the price ceiling of your neighborhood to get what you want, moving is sometimes the smarter financial call, and we'll tell you that even though it means we don't get the job. A whole-house remodel should add value in line with or above what it costs, in a home and a neighborhood worth the investment. When it does, we're the contractor to run it. When it doesn't, we'd rather you hear that from us up front. Call (612) 445-4352 and we'll give you the straight read.

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