Aging-in-Place & Accessible Remodeling in St. Charles, Missouri

St. Charles homes and this kind of project

An accessibility remodel in St. Charles means working in everything from 1800s brick to 1990s subdivisions, so on our first visit we look at the route from the car to the bedroom and bath, door widths and every step along the way.

The housing stock here: nineteenth-century brick in the historic core, early twentieth-century bungalows and four-squares in midtown, postwar ranches, 1980s to 2000s subdivisions to the west and south, and New Town's neo-traditional homes.

Old houses have narrow doors and no main-floor bath, which makes them the hardest to adapt.

What we find inside St. Charles homes

In pre-war houses, kitchens and baths are small and the walls hide plaster, old wiring and cast iron drains. We update the systems while preserving trim, doors and floors that give the house its value. In the newer subdivisions the work mirrors the rest of the county.

Bathrooms in pre-war St. Charles homes have cast iron drains, galvanized supplies and tile set in a thick mortar bed over sagging joists. Demolition is slow and heavy. We replace the old piping as far back as we can reach, reinforce the floor and rebuild with modern waterproofing behind a period-appropriate finish.

What is included

In St. Charles we build zero-threshold showers, install blocking and grab bars, widen doorways, flatten thresholds, build ramps and landings, convert main-floor rooms to bedrooms with accessible baths, improve lighting and swap hardware throughout.

We take on accessibility remodel work across St. Charles, from Frenchtown to New Town at St. Charles and midtown St. Charles.

What we watch for

Two-story homes in St. Charles with no main-floor full bath are the hardest to adapt. We look at the powder room and adjacent closets first, since borrowing a few feet is cheaper than adding on.

St. Charles properties tend to be tight historic blocks near the river and ordinary suburban lots farther west, and that affects how we stage materials, where carpenters, a plumber, an electrician and a tile setter park and how debris leaves the site.

Permits and approvals in St. Charles

In St. Charles, an accessibility remodel is reviewed by the City of St. Charles. What follows is inspections for structural, plumbing and electrical changes.

Interior work like this normally does not involve historic preservation review in the old districts, though dumpsters and working hours sometimes do, and we check.

Schedule and getting to you

Plan on two to four weeks for a bathroom of site work for an accessibility remodel in St. Charles, once permits and materials are in hand.

St. Charles is about half an hour east on I-70, or along Highway 370 to the north side from our Wentzville base. We plan crew days and deliveries around that drive so you get full working days on site.

What moves the price in St. Charles

We price aging-in-place & accessible remodeling in St. Charles from a site visit, not a square-foot figure. These are the items that change the number.

• Whether a main-floor bedroom suite is a conversion or an addition.
• Curbless shower construction, which depends on floor framing or slab.

More detail

Our step-by-step method for this work, and the factors that move its price, are laid out on the main aging-in-place & accessible remodeling page. More about the area is on our St. Charles page.