A full home remodel in Boston is a whole-house project that can touch the kitchen, baths, living spaces, systems, and layout in one coordinated build. Depending on the home, it ranges from a room-by-room refresh to a complete gut that rewires, replumbs, and reframes interior walls.
In Boston's older stock, a full remodel is often the moment to correct decades of piecemeal work: undersized electrical service, aging cast-iron plumbing, knob-and-tube wiring, and choppy layouts in triple-deckers and brownstones that were never designed for open living.
A typical JRH full remodel in Boston can include:
Reworking the floor plan to open kitchens and living areas in narrow triple-decker and rowhouse footprints.
Upgrading electrical service, plumbing, heating, and insulation across the whole home.
New kitchen and bathrooms coordinated with finishes throughout.
Structural work, dormers, or additions handled under one permit set and schedule.
It is the right project when repairs keep stacking up and it makes more sense to renovate the whole home at once than to fix one room at a time.
The process starts with a free in-home consultation and a walkthrough of the whole house, followed by an itemized written estimate, a scope, and a realistic phased schedule that includes permit handling.
Because a full remodel coordinates many trades, we plan the sequence up front: demolition, structural and framing, then rough-in for electrical, plumbing, and HVAC, followed by insulation, drywall, and finishes.
After you approve the design and selections, JRH files for permits through the City of Boston Inspectional Services Department, and each licensed trade pulls its own permit as Massachusetts requires. Inspections happen at the required stages.
We finish with a final walkthrough and city sign-off. Whole-home timelines depend heavily on scope, structural work, and how much of the systems are replaced, and we keep you updated at each phase.
Yes. A full home remodel in Boston requires permits through the Inspectional Services Department (ISD). Most whole-home projects use a long-form building permit because they change structure, layout, or use, and each trade, electrical, plumbing, gas, and mechanical, pulls a separate permit through a licensed contractor.
JRH manages the full permit set through the city's online permitting portal at onlinepermitsandlicenses.boston.gov and schedules inspections at each stage. Boston ISD is located at 1010 Massachusetts Avenue and can be reached at (617) 635-5300. Permitting a whole-home remodel correctly is what protects both the work and the home's value.
Whole-home remodels in Greater Boston commonly run from about $100 to $200 or more per square foot, so a full gut of a 1,500 square foot home can start near $150,000 and climb with structural or systems work, while a partial, room-by-room refresh costs far less (national remodeling cost data, 2025). Your Boston number depends on scope, the condition of existing systems, and finish level.
Because a full remodel is the ideal time for efficiency upgrades, Mass Save offers rebates for insulation, heat pumps, and efficient equipment added during the project.
As a registered contractor, JRH gives you coverage under the state's Home Improvement Contractor program and Guaranty Fund, plus a free, itemized in-home estimate.
JRH handles full home remodels throughout Boston, including Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, South Boston, East Boston, Charlestown, the South End, Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Roslindale, West Roxbury, Hyde Park, Brighton, and Allston.
Boston is the seat of Suffolk County and spans ZIP codes from 02108 through 02136. Its triple-deckers, brownstones, and Victorians reward a whole-home approach, since systems and layout are usually shared across floors and best updated together.
JRH Constructions is a licensed Massachusetts home improvement contractor (MA HIC #204867), registered and active, so your Boston remodel is covered by the state's HIC consumer-protection framework. We are fully insured, and every permit is pulled and inspected through the City of Boston.
JRH Constructions, MA HIC #204867, Lynn, MA. Serving Boston and Suffolk County. Call (781) 520-1982 for a free in-home estimate.
Because JRH is a registered Massachusetts Home Improvement Contractor (#204867), your whole-home Boston remodel is permitted, sequenced, and inspected through the City of Boston, with the state's HIC consumer-protection framework behind it.
