A kitchen remodel brings a lot of trades into one room: a plumber for the sink and the dishwasher, an electrician for the lights, the outlets and the appliance circuits, often a gas line for the range, and a range hood that may need a duct to the outside. JK General Contractor runs it as one job, with the design settled before the old kitchen comes out.
We take on remodels, not small repair jobs. A kitchen can be a project of its own, or one part of a bigger one, such as an addition that gives it more floor or a kitchen and a bath done together. Kitchens are one part of our home remodeling work.
What we remodel
- Kitchen remodels: the kitchen you have, remodeled in the room it is in now
- Bigger kitchens: a bump-out or a room addition that adds floor, built as part of the same project
- Kitchen and bath together: a kitchen and a bathroom remodeled in one project, with one project manager
- Kitchenettes and wet bars downstairs: built as part of basement finishing
How a kitchen remodel runs
It starts at the house. We look at the kitchen with you and talk through what you want to change and what should stay, and the design comes first, so the layout and the scope are settled before there is a price.
Then you get one firm price in writing after the site visit, a single number rather than a range.
The work is done under our Virginia Class A license, No. 2705135143. When it needs a building permit, JK General Contractor draws the plans, files the permit with the county and schedules the inspections. The licensed plumber and electrician pull permits for their own work, and if the range runs on gas, a licensed trade runs the gas line under permit while we coordinate it with everything else.
One project manager is your contact from our first meeting to the final walkthrough, so you have one person to ask about any part of the job.
Remodel in place or make room?
| Option | What changes | Worth knowing |
|---|---|---|
| Remodel in place | The kitchen is redone in the room it has | Keeping the sink, range and refrigerator where they are keeps plumbing, gas and wiring changes small |
| Bump-out | One wall of the kitchen moves out | Built as an addition, with the siding, trim, windows and roofing matched to the house |
| Room addition | The kitchen grows into new space beside it | Footings inspected before the concrete goes in, and the new roof tied in and flashed |
| Kitchen and bath | Two rooms in one project | The bathroom is rebuilt from the studs out |
If the kitchen itself works and what you are missing is a bright place to sit next to it, look at a sunroom instead.
Thinking about a kitchen remodel?
Send us a few lines about your kitchen, and we will set a time to come and see it.
Where We Remodel Kitchens
For a kitchen, JK General Contractor draws the plans and, when the work calls for a building permit, files it with the county the house is in, whether Loudoun, Fairfax or Prince William, then books the inspections. A kitchen remodel that changes the outside of the house, such as a new window or a vent through a wall, can also need your HOA's approval, and its board gets product sheets, samples and drawings from us.
How much does a kitchen remodel cost?
It depends on how much changes. These are the things that move it:
- The room: its size, and how much of it is redone
- Layout: moving the sink, the range or the refrigerator moves plumbing, gas or wiring with it
- Walls: opening or taking out a wall, above all one that carries weight from above
- Selections: the cabinets, counters, flooring, fixtures and appliances you choose
- Electrical: new circuits, lighting and the outlets the code calls for along the counters
- Ventilation: a range hood ducted to the outside
- More floor: a bump-out or an addition brings its own design, engineering and permit
- Permits: the building and trade permits the work calls for, and their inspections
What not to do in a kitchen remodel
Do not take out a wall before you know what it carries. Some kitchen walls hold up the floor or the roof above them. Taking one of those out means a beam sized for the load and a building permit for the work, so it belongs in the design, not in the middle of demolition.
Do not leave the appliances for last. The range, the refrigerator and the dishwasher set the openings the rest of the kitchen is built around, so choose them while the layout is being drawn.
Kitchen and bath remodeling in one project?
Yes. We remodel kitchens and bathrooms, and when both are on your list they can run as one project, with one written price and one project manager. Bathrooms have a page of their own, bathroom remodeling.
Do I need a permit to remodel a kitchen?
Usually, yes. A new circuit, a moved drain, a new gas line or a wall that comes out each brings a permit and an inspection; work that only replaces finishes may not need one, and the county makes that call.
Where the house sits decides which county. In Chantilly that takes a look at the address: most of the 20151 ZIP code is in Fairfax County and much of 20152 is in Loudoun County, and each county runs its own permit office. Ashburn homes go to Loudoun County and Centreville homes to Fairfax County.
