Kircher Design & Build

Kircher did a good job remodeling both of my bathrooms.nnNote that, by default, Carrie will design impressive bathrooms that will add value to your home. If you want something less flashy then you'll need to tell her to tone it down a bit.nnYou want child-height cabinets, not adult height, if anyone in your family and friends is less than 5 foot 8 inches tall. Reaching the top of the sink is not the problem with the adult height cabinets. The problem for short people is stretching over the adult height sink to reach inside the medicine cabinets.nnI gave the whole garage over to Kircher to use as a staging and sawing area. Plan on doing that too if you want the fastest and best job.nnConstruction resulted in a lot of dust, which spread throughout the whole house. (Both bathrooms were pretty-much gutted down to the studs.) However, Kircher laid down tarps over the carpet to protect it when they were hauling heavy or dirty stuff. They didn't damage or stain anything outside the work areas.nnThe estimated completion time was 5 and a half weeks, and they met that time despite a miscommunication over the desired size of the walk-in shower. It wound up being shrunk back down to the original designed size, which is what I wanted all along.nnIt turns out that *tile* is what takes the most time. Demolition was quick. Plumbing, drywall, cabinets, and paint were also quick. The tile work seemed to go on forever. I let the tilers work one Saturday so that they could catch up on their schedule. The rest of the construction was done while I was at work.nnKircher only touched one bathroom at a time so I always had a working bathroom. The water to the house was only shut off for short periods of time while I was at work. Find your house's main water shutoff valve before Kircher arrives!nnThere are some tiny defects in the finished work. 99 out of 100 people won't even notice them. I'm darned picky and the imperfections don't bother me. The workmanship is fine for an ordinary house. If you have a multi-million dollar mansion then you might want to hire a different contractor who is much more expensive. (Kircher's prices are about average for the area.)nnOne of the new LED light fixtures went goofy a few weeks after the job was completed. Kircher took care of it under warranty. (I'd picked a fixture that they don't normally use.) They also fixed a couple of plumbing problems, that weren't really their fault, under warranty.nnThe cost of the whole job wound up being about $200 above the original price in the contract. On one hand, Kircher charged a couple of hundred dollars for electrical work, on top of the estimate, and I didn't expect that charge. On the other hand, they did some other work for free that I fully expected to be charged for. I think it evened out.nnI will call Kircher the next time I need this kind of remodeling done.

Kircher designed my basement. The project from start to finish was fantastic!! The crew was friendly and easy to work with.

My kitchen situation was a dysfunctional disaster until John came up with a great new design. His crew did a wonderful job transforming the space and never left a mess!

Great company, great people and a quality job! Would recommend them any day!