Full Home Renovations in Utah

Yes. Choose Investment Property when you request a consultation, and we plan the renovation around your schedule for sale or rent.

Yes. Renovating before move-in lets the work run without phasing around the household. The schedule is planned from your closing date.

Not under Utah's licensing law. Under Utah Code 58-3a-304, plans for one- and two-family dwellings are exempt from the architect licensing requirement. A residential designer can prepare the drawings. Any structural element beyond the code's prescriptive limits is designed to accepted engineering practice.

Yes. We build to the architect's drawings and bring any field condition back to the architect before that part of the work proceeds.

Not always. When the beam and posts that replace a bearing wall fall outside the code's prescriptive tables, they are designed to accepted engineering practice under Section R301.1.3. Where special conditions exist, the building official can require a registered design professional to prepare the construction documents for the beam and posts. Those documents then become part of the permit set.

Yes. Structural, plumbing, mechanical, and electrical work each needs a permit from your city, town, county, or district building office. Each is then inspected through final approval.

No. The renovated work meets the current code without requiring the rest of the house to comply. Utah's amendments add that a component not being altered does not have to change. A permitted renovation does update the smoke alarms, and the carbon monoxide alarms where they apply.

Yes. A replacement window that serves as a bedroom's emergency escape and rescue opening keeps the existing opening when it meets Section R310.5. The window is the manufacturer's largest standard size that fits the existing frame or rough opening, in the same operating style or a style with an equal or greater opening area, with no change of occupancy. New windows also meet Utah's energy chapter, through its prescriptive maximum U-factor of 0.32 or its REScheck or HERS performance path.

No more than 80 psi static. Where the main serving the house runs higher, a pressure-reducing valve is installed at the connection between the domestic water piping and the water service pipe.

Yes. Utah requires heating and cooling equipment to be sized from a load calculation made with ACCA Manual J or another method, by a person who has completed HVAC training the code recognizes.

Not under the residential code as Utah adopted it. Utah's amendments delete the arc-fault sections, including the rule for extending or modifying existing branch circuits, and keep ground-fault protection for the 125-volt, 15- and 20-amp receptacles Section E3902 still lists.

Not necessarily. It needs to be solid wood or solid or honeycomb-core steel at least 1 3/8 inches thick, or a 20-minute fire-rated door, and it may not open into a bedroom. Utah's amendments remove the residential code's requirement that the door be self-latching and self-closing or automatic-closing.

A whole-home renovation runs longer than a single-room remodel, because every system and room is involved. The phased schedule is set in writing during preconstruction.

Yes. The house can be renovated in stages, such as the kitchen and main level first and the bedrooms after. Each phase is planned during preconstruction and inspected as it is built.

Conditions found once the walls are open, such as damaged framing, failing supply lines, or outdated wiring, are documented and priced in a written change order. You approve it before that work proceeds.

Some households move out for part of the schedule. Whether yours needs to depends on which systems are shut off and when. You will know before demolition starts.