Timelines · Davie, FL
How Long a Full Kitchen Remodel Really Takes in Davie
How long a full kitchen remodel really takes in Davie is three to six weeks from approved estimate to a working kitchen, and only two to three of those weeks happen inside your house. The rest is the cabinets and the countertop being built while you still have a sink. A project that moves a wall or relocates plumbing runs eight to twelve weeks, with four to six on site.
- Layout stays
- 3–6 weeks
- 2–3 on site
- Wall or plumbing moves
- 8–12 weeks
- 4–6 on site
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Where the Weeks Actually Go
Almost nobody is surprised by the demolition. What surprises people is the waiting before anything is torn out, which is where most of the calendar lives and where none of it is visible.
Cabinets are built to your measurements after the layout is final, and that build is measured in weeks and not days: the sequence a kitchen project follows, and the order the trades work in, is standard enough that the National Kitchen & Bath Association publishes it. The countertop cannot be templated until the cabinets are standing, because the template follows the boxes and not the drawing, and it is cut off site before it comes back. Those three steps run one after the other, and none of them can be compressed by working faster because none of them happen in your house.
Against that, the on-site work is short: tear-out, boxes, template, top, plumbing and electric, finish. Two to three weeks. A crew that promises the whole thing in ten days is either quoting a different job or planning to start before the materials exist, which is the decision that turns four weeks into four months.
What Permitting Adds, and When It Does Not
A kitchen that keeps its layout and its plumbing usually does not carry the same review as one that moves either. The Town of Davie administers building, electrical, plumbing and mechanical permits separately, and what a specific project needs is determined case by case rather than by a published checklist, which is why an honest answer to this question always starts with what the project touches. The requirements and the process are published by the Town of Davie Building Division.
When a permit is required, it adds two things to the calendar and only one of them is review time: the drawings have to exist before anything is submitted, and inspections have to happen at fixed points in the sequence, which means the crew stops and waits rather than working ahead. That is the part nobody can speed up, and it is the reason a wall or a relocated sink pushes a three to six week job to eight to twelve. It is also why the honest version of this answer is two schedules and not one average.
The Question That Predicts Your Calendar
Ask any contractor you are talking to one question: when do you demolish, and what has to be in your shop before you do?
An answer that involves their availability tells you the tear-out is scheduled around their calendar. An answer that involves your cabinets and your countertop tells you it is scheduled around your materials. The same project, quoted by both, is the same days of work and a very different number of days without a kitchen.
The order is the whole argument, and it is the one part of a schedule that costs nothing to get right and cannot be recovered once it is wrong. Where a permit is involved the order is not even negotiable: the Florida Building Code fixes the points at which work stops for inspection. Waiting for a delivery with a working kitchen is time you barely notice. Waiting for the same delivery after the tear-out is the same days spent washing dishes in a bathroom, and it is how a kitchen ends up taking four months without anybody on the job being slow.
