A short call to hear what you’re planning, then a site visit within a few days. The visit itself runs 30 to 45 minutes: we walk the space, look at the foundation and framing you’d be tying into, and talk through what’s realistic for your lot. The person who does this visit is who you’ll be talking to for the rest of the job, not a rotating cast of estimators.
You get a written quote within a week of the site visit, broken down by line item instead of one number. It states plainly what’s assumed about your foundation and framing until walls are open and we can confirm it, so there’s no surprise buried in a lump sum.
Newton permit review typically takes two to six weeks, longer if your project needs a variance from the Zoning Board of Appeals or a Conservation Commission review because of a nearby wetland. We pull the permit and handle the paperwork with the city, so you’re not the one making trips to the building department.
Demolition and protection happen together, usually one to three days. Floor runners and dust barriers go up before a single wall comes down, not the morning after.
This is most of the schedule, typically eight to sixteen weeks depending on size and how much structural work is involved. Framing, rough electrical and plumbing, insulation, drywall, and finish work run in that order, and you’ll have a rough week-by-week outline before the first hammer swings.
We walk the finished addition with you, close out anything left on the punch list, and go over what’s covered under warranty and for how long. In writing, not as a verbal aside on the way out the door.
This is the section that matters most. If something changes mid-job, whether it’s a foundation condition nobody could have seen before the wall came down or a selection you decide to swap, it gets priced in writing and signed off before work continues. Nobody is asked to make that decision standing in a room with the walls open and dust on the floor. You get the number and a day or two to think it over, and the schedule adjusts around that decision instead of around a rushed one.
Dust containment goes up before demolition starts: plastic zip walls at the entry to the work area, floor protection running from your front door to the site rather than stopping at the threshold. The crew is on site around 7:30 and wraps by 4:30 on weekdays, in line with Newton’s construction hours. On the narrower streets in villages like Newton Corner and West Newton, where driveways are tight or shared with a neighbor, we confirm crew parking ahead of time so nobody’s blocking a driveway or a shared entry during the job. At the end of each day, the work area is swept, any exposed openings are covered, and nothing is left live or open overnight.
