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Remodeling in McKinney

A historic downtown with a review process unlike anywhere else in the metro: staff-reviewed in days rather than heard by a commission once a month, and triggered only by what the street can see.

Which one you own decides the job long before anyone picks a tile, so we start there. Every price we give you is fixed and in writing before demolition, and the permit dates sit in your schedule rather than arriving as a surprise in week two.

A residential street of restored late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century homes with deep porches and mature trees near a historic town square.

Here the question is not whether it is exterior. It is whether the street can see it.

Historic Overlay District, near the square

How McKinney reviews work, and why it is faster

  1. Inside the Historic Overlay District, a Certificate of Appropriateness is required before work begins and before a permit issues. The trigger is narrower than in most cities: it applies to work that is visible from the public right-of-way, which is a different test from the exterior-work standard used in Fort Worth and Dallas.

  2. Ordinary maintenance generally needs no approval, provided materials and design are not changed. Painting, repairs and replacing materials in kind fall outside the process, which removes a large share of what owners of older houses actually do.

  3. The review route is the part that most distinguishes McKinney. Applications go through the city's development portal and are reviewed by the Historic Preservation Officer, with a stated window of roughly 10 to 30 days for a complete application. There is no monthly commission cycle to plan around and no neighborhood task force step, so the practical waiting time is measured in weeks rather than in months.

  4. Outside the overlay district, and that is most of McKinney, remodeling is ordinary permitted work. Altering plumbing, electrical or framing needs a permit. Finish work inside the existing footprint generally does not. We pull what is required and the inspection dates go in your written schedule.

Get your fixed price.

Three quick steps. Tell us the room and roughly what you have in mind, and the last step is the only place we ask for your number.

Step 1 of 3

Which room are we talking about?

The fear is not the price. It is being left mid-build.

These four commitments are in the contract rather than on a badge.

  • A fixed written price

    The number we sign is the number you pay. It moves only through a written change order you approve before any work starts.

  • A named project manager with a cell number

    One person owns your project from demolition to final walkthrough. You get their mobile number on day one, and they answer it.

  • A written update every Friday

    Photos, what happened this week, what happens next, and whether we are on schedule, in your inbox before the weekend either way.

  • Broom-clean every evening

    Floor protection down every morning, tools packed out and floors swept every night. You are living here while we work, and we work like it.