Aging-in-Place & Accessible Remodeling in Wentzville, Missouri

Wentzville homes and this kind of project

Our first visit for an accessibility remodel in Wentzville is spent on the route from the car to the bedroom and bath, door widths and every step along the way, which tells us how the two-stories and ranches built here since 2000 were put together.

The housing stock here: predominantly two-story and ranch production homes from 2000 onward, with 1980s and 1990s subdivisions closer to the center and a pocket of early-twentieth-century houses downtown.

Newer ranches and villas often need only a curbless shower, blocking and wider doors.

What we find inside Wentzville homes

Kitchens from the 2000s boom share a pattern: builder oak or maple cabinets, laminate or early granite, a small island and a soffit. Primary baths have the corner tub and small shower. Both are well suited to reworking within the existing footprint, which keeps budgets reasonable.

Bathrooms in recent Wentzville construction are functional and bland: fiberglass showers, cultured tops and sheet mirrors. Upgrading to tile, glass and furniture-style vanities is straightforward because the plumbing is new and accessible.

What is included

In Wentzville 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 Wentzville, from Stone Meadows to historic downtown Wentzville and Bear Creek.

What we watch for

Two-story homes in Wentzville 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.

Working on open subdivision lots with young trees and rear common ground, as we do in Wentzville, we plan access for carpenters, a plumber, an electrician and a tile setter before the first delivery arrives.

Permits and approvals in Wentzville

For an accessibility remodel at a Wentzville address, the paperwork goes to the City of Wentzville building division. Expect inspections for structural, plumbing and electrical changes.

Interior work like this normally does not involve a subdivision HOA in most newer neighborhoods, 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 Wentzville, once permits and materials are in hand.

We are based in Wentzville, so this is a local job for us. Site visits, material drops and mid-project questions get handled the same day.

What moves the price in Wentzville

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

• Number of doorways widened, particularly in bearing walls.
• Ramp length. Code slope is one inch of rise per foot of run, so a twenty-four-inch rise needs twenty-four feet of ramp.

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 Wentzville page.