Kitchen Remodeling in St. Charles, Missouri

St. Charles homes and this kind of project

Because St. Charles is made up of everything from 1800s brick to 1990s subdivisions, the first thing we check for a kitchen remodel here is which walls bear load, where plumbing and ducts run and how much room the electrical panel has left.

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.

In an old house the kitchen has to borrow space from a pantry or porch, and new wiring and plumbing are threaded through plaster walls.

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.

Kitchens in the older houses of St. Charles were service rooms at the back. Bringing one up to date means finding space, often from a pantry, porch or adjacent room, and threading new wiring, plumbing and ventilation through plaster and balloon framing without wrecking the trim and floors that give the house its value.

What is included

For St. Charles kitchens where the layout already works, we offer a lighter scope: new cabinetry or refaced boxes, tops, backsplash, lighting and paint on the existing footprint, finished in about half the time of a full gut.

We take on kitchen remodel work across St. Charles, from Historic Main Street to Frenchtown and New Town at St. Charles.

What we watch for

Many St. Charles kitchens were wired with two countertop circuits and little else. Modern kitchens want dedicated circuits for the microwave, dishwasher, disposal, fridge and often an induction range, so we check panel capacity on the first visit.

Working on tight historic blocks near the river and ordinary suburban lots farther west, as we do in St. Charles, we plan access for carpenters, a plumber, an electrician, cabinet installers, a countertop fabricator and a tile setter before the first delivery arrives.

Permits and approvals in St. Charles

For a kitchen remodel at a St. Charles address, the paperwork goes to the City of St. Charles. Expect rough framing, plumbing, gas, electrical and final inspections.

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

On site, a kitchen remodel in St. Charles generally runs six to ten weeks.

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 kitchen remodeling in St. Charles from a site visit, not a square-foot figure. These are the items that change the number.

• Flooring, especially if hardwood in adjacent rooms needs to be laced in and refinished to match.
• Whether the layout stays or plumbing, gas and walls move.

More detail

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