How a whole-home remodel is sequenced
A whole-home remodel's schedule is a chain of dependencies: each stage waits on a decision, a document or an inspection. This page shows the chain, the owner decisions in it and what usually extends it.
Timeline
How a project is sequenced, and what moves it.
Dependency chains, owner decisions, long-lead items, corrections and inspections for each service. These pages show order and dependencies, not a promised duration.
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By service
How a detached ADU is sequenced
A detached ADU adds utility and site steps that a remodel does not have. This page shows the dependency chain from feasibility to final inspection and where schedules usually stretch.
How a garage conversion is sequenced
A garage conversion starts with what already exists: its records and condition decide how much of the chain is needed. This page shows the sequence and the points that most often move it.
Building a new house?
These pages cover whole-home remodels, detached ADUs and garage conversions. The phases of a ground-up new home are explained in one place: New-home construction phases
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The phases, one by one
Each service page orders these phases differently and shows what depends on what. Some overlap; others cannot start until the previous one ends.
- Predesign
- Brief, budget frame, team and what must stay. Nothing is drawn to final yet.
- Site investigations
- Records, survey, soils, existing conditions and utility locations that decide what can be designed.
- Consultant work
- Structural, civil, geotechnical or energy input that the drawings depend on.
- Design development
- The layout is fixed, then developed into construction documents an agency can review.
- Application acceptance
- The agency confirms the submittal is complete enough to review. Acceptance is not approval.
- Correction rounds
- Reviewers list comments; the design team answers and resubmits. The number of rounds is not known in advance.
- Permit issuance
- Approved plans plus paid fees and any required clearances; work on the permitted scope may begin.
- Procurement
- Final selections ordered. Long-lead items can arrive later than they take to install.
- Mobilization
- Access, protection, staging, temporary facilities and household arrangements before work starts.
- Construction
- Demolition or site work, structure, systems and finishes, paced by inspections and deliveries.
- Inspections
- Agency inspections at defined points; a failed item is corrected and reinspected before covering work.
- Utility readiness
- Requests to the electric, water, sewer or gas provider, which run on the provider's own process.
- Closeout
- Final sign-off, punch list, documents and handover. Move-in follows these, not the last day of work.
Principles on every timeline page
- Construction duration and end-to-end time are different measures; each page separates them.
- Published agency statistics describe past applications in aggregate and are not a prediction for one parcel.
- No single duration is given without a sourced basis; your schedule is set once drawings and review requirements are known.
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