Our ceiling
Why we turn down work above $100,000
A ceiling on project size is an unusual thing for a construction company to advertise. Growth is supposed to mean bigger jobs.
But the number is not arbitrary and it is not modesty. It is the point at which our entire operating model stops working.
One dedicated crew can carry a project up to roughly a hundred thousand dollars from layout to punch list. Above that, the volume of simultaneous work exceeds what one crew can perform in any sensible timeframe, and a contractor has exactly two options. Stretch the schedule until the client loses patience, or start subcontracting.
Almost everybody chooses subcontracting, and the moment they do, the client stops receiving the thing they were actually paying for: a single accountable party who was there when the wall was open.
What the ceiling buys you
Because we never cross it, we never have to make that choice. Which means the promise on every other page of this site — one crew, the same faces, nobody to point at when something fails — holds on our largest project exactly as firmly as on our smallest.
A contractor whose model breaks at scale and who takes the work anyway is making you a promise that has an expiration date printed on it in invisible ink.
And what it costs us
Real money, several times a year. Someone calls about a ground-up building or a full custom home, we walk it, and we tell them we are the wrong company. Occasionally we can point them somewhere sensible. Occasionally we cannot, and they are annoyed with us for wasting an afternoon.
We would rather have that conversation in week zero than in month four.
Where your project sits
Four bands, and what each one actually buys
Drywall repair, a failed fixture, a ceiling stain nobody can explain, touch-up paint before a showing. Often a single visit. Worth saving items up so one mobilization covers several.
- Drywall patch and texture match
- Fixture replacement
- Small paint scope
- Door and hardware repair
A guest bathroom taken to studs and rebuilt. A cosmetic kitchen refresh. A full interior repaint. A rental make-ready with flooring. The most common band we work in.
- Guest bathroom rebuild
- Cosmetic kitchen refresh
- Full interior repaint
- Rental make-ready
A complete kitchen. Two bathrooms. A garage conversion. An open-concept wall removal with engineering. Projects where sequencing genuinely starts to matter.
- Full kitchen remodel
- Primary bathroom with tile shower
- Garage conversion
- Load-bearing wall removal
A whole-home remodel of a typical Valley house. A permitted addition. A finished casita. A first-generation office suite finish-out. The top of what one crew can carry properly.
- Whole-home remodel
- Permitted 400–500 sq ft addition
- Casita with bath and kitchenette
- Office suite finish-out
Want the detail behind these numbers? What $100,000 actually buys in the Valley right now breaks it down scope by scope.
If your project is larger
What we will tell you, in the first conversation
That we are the wrong company
Plainly, without hedging, and without proposing a phased structure designed mainly to get us inside the ceiling on paper.
Whether the project can honestly be split
Sometimes a large scope is genuinely two projects with a natural break between them — a kitchen this year and a primary suite next. Sometimes that is a fiction that serves us and not you. We will say which it is.
What to ask the larger contractor you hire
Which scopes are self-performed, whether the subcontractors are confirmed for your dates, how change orders get priced, and what happens to your schedule when one trade slips. The questions are the same regardless of who does the work.
That the door stays open for the smaller pieces
Plenty of clients hire a larger firm for the main event and use us for everything after — the repairs, the turns, the second bathroom, the punch list somebody else abandoned.
Next step
Tell us the scope. We will tell you if we are wrong for it.
It takes one phone call and it is the cheapest due diligence available to you. Worst case you lose ten minutes and learn what questions to ask the next contractor.
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