Home Remodeling in Winslow, ME
Kenneth Cox Construction has done home remodeling in Winslow, ME, since 1988. Big project or small, kitchen to bathroom to basement to exterior to a full-house remodel, we hold every one of them to the same standard.
- 38 years in business, since 1988
- Over 250 projects completed
- Affordable work, two-year written warranty
Most Winslow houses are postwar ranches built with one bathroom, a closed-off kitchen, and a formal living room nobody sits in. Kenneth Cox Construction has been reworking that floor plan since 1988, and two changes usually fix most of what bothers you.
Start with the second bathroom, not the kitchen. Builders in that era ran plumbing along a predictable spine, so adding a bath near it is often straightforward, and the unused living room is almost always where the square footage comes from.
Winslow sits where the Sebasticook meets the Kennebec, so low lots deal with high water tables and any addition needs footings below a deep inland frost line. Ken walks the house first and tells you which two changes earn their keep. Every remodel carries a written 2-year workmanship warranty.
Why Winslow Residents Hire Us for Their Home Remodel
Ken has worked central Maine's postwar houses since 1988, and knowing where these builders habitually ran their plumbing saves real money at the estimate stage.
We are BBB accredited, publicly listed at the Better Business Bureau, and every remodel carries a written 2-year workmanship warranty.
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Directions from Winslow, ME to our shop in Searsmont
128 New England RoadSearsmont, ME 04973
What Remodeling Services Do We Offer in Winslow?
- kitchen remodeling
- bathroom remodeling
- whole-home remodeling
What is our Winslow home remodeling process?
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Ken traces the plumbing and identifies which walls are structural before proposing a layout.
We bring your project to life
Plumbing, framing, permits, trades and finish run on one schedule from one office.
Enjoy your new space
Finished on the agreed date, with two years of warranty standing behind it.
Custom Home Remodeling in Winslow
We do affordable home remodeling in Winslow, ME by fixing the thing that actually makes daily life worse. Everybody talks about the kitchen and the kitchen is worth doing, and in a household of four sharing a single bathroom the bathroom is the problem.
The good news is that these houses were built in a rational period, so the plumbing tends to run in a predictable spine and a second bathroom is usually achievable near it.
The other good news is that the formal living room is almost always the space to take it from, since it is the least used square footage in the entire house.
One bathroom, a closed kitchen, and a living room saved for guests who never come. That is the standard Winslow ranch, and two changes fix almost all of it.
Ken tells you which two are worth doing first, and every remodel carries a 2-year workmanship warranty from a BBB accredited company.
Most of our Winslow clients are families in the postwar ranches and split-levels who bought sensibly and now need the house to work harder.
We also work on the older housing near the river and in the newer subdivisions toward China, where the constraints and the budgets are both different.
We run the remodel from plan through the permit with Winslow Code Enforcement to plumbing, structure, inspections and finish.
In a slab-on-grade house the plumbing route is the whole question, since running new waste lines through or around a slab is a very different job from running them under a floor.
We remodel across Winslow, from the low ground near the confluence of the two rivers to the higher neighborhoods and the newer development toward Benton and China.
Low-lying properties near the water carry flood and drainage considerations, which matter if a project touches the exterior or the ground.
You should book a Winslow remodel for the winter, since interior remodeling runs comfortably through it. That is when we schedule most of it, because none of it waits on the ground.
If your project requires breaking a slab or working outside, we plan that portion for the milder months so the house is not open in a cold snap.
Home remodeling in Winslow is different because of the slab. In houses built directly on grade there is no crawlspace to run a new drain through, so a second bathroom either goes near the existing plumbing or it gets expensive quickly.
The second is the plan itself. These ranches divide space into small, closed rooms, and removing one or two non-structural walls transforms them far more cheaply than an addition would.
The third is the ground. Two rivers meet in this town and the water table is genuinely high on the low lots, so any exterior work tied to a remodel has to respect that rather than ignore it.
Understanding those three is why we can usually tell you within an hour whether the second bathroom is a straightforward project or a difficult one.
Ask where the existing waste line runs and how close your proposed bathroom can get to it, because that distance is most of the price.
Get the two-year warranty in writing as well, and verify the company yourself before work begins.
A Winslow remodel costs one number backing onto existing plumbing and quite another on the far side of a slab, which is why we do not publish figures. Those are not remotely the same job.
Ken establishes the plumbing route before quoting, prices what is genuinely required, and the estimate then holds.
What do Winslow homeowners ask about home remodeling?
Can I add a bathroom to a slab house?
You can add a bathroom to a slab house, and the cost depends almost entirely on how far it sits from the existing line. Close is straightforward, far is not.
Where should the second bathroom go?
The second bathroom should usually go off the least-used room in the house, which in a Winslow ranch is almost always the formal living room.
Can I open up the kitchen?
You can frequently open up the kitchen. In these houses the kitchen wall is often non-structural, which makes it one of the best-value changes available.
Do you do both at once?
We do both at once when it makes sense, and it is usually cheaper that way. One mobilization and one disruption rather than two.
Improve the Layout and Function of Your Winslow Home
For a Winslow home, we recommend fixing kitchen circulation and storage before increasing the room's footprint. A better doorway, fewer pinch points, and cabinets sized for what you own often solve the problem without the cost and disruption of structural expansion.
What happens when you call us about Winslow?
What happens when you call us about a Winslow house is that we ask how many people share a bathroom. If four share one, that is the change that will make the most difference to how the place feels.
Ken can tell you quickly whether it is an easy project here. His number is 207-386-9235.