NR Building Solutions

Interior

Kitchen and bath refresh

Bring the two rooms that matter most up to standard — without rebuilding rooms that do not need rebuilding.

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How it is priced
Per room, by component scope
Timeline
Set in your written estimate, after the walk-through
Who performs it
NRBS crews, self-performed

What the price covers

In the scope

  • Cabinet options: Reface, replace doors and hardware, or full replacement
  • Countertop: Post-form laminate as standard; solid surface where the community supports it
  • Tub and surround: Manufactured-home sizing — a standard site-built tub often will not fit
  • Always checked: Supply lines, shut-offs, wax ring, and the subfloor beneath both rooms

Not in the scope

  • Anything not written in the scope. Extra work found on site is raised as a written change order before it is done.

These are the two rooms a prospective tenant decides in

A make-ready budget has to go somewhere, and in a manufactured housing community the kitchen and the bath return more per dollar than anything else inside the home. A tired living room reads as lived-in. A tired bathroom reads as neglected.

The mistake is treating "refresh" as a single scope. It is a set of independent component decisions, and most homes need three of them rather than all eight.

The refresh-versus-replace decision, per component

Most homes need three or four of these, not all of them.

Cabinets

Refresh
Boxes sound — new doors, drawer fronts and hardware
Replace
Water damage at the sink base, or the layout itself is the problem

Countertop

Refresh
Rarely worth refinishing — it is a low-cost replacement
Replace
Almost always. Post-form laminate is inexpensive and transforms the room

Tub and surround

Refresh
Surface refinishing where the tub is sound and only stained
Replace
Cracked, flexing, or a surround that has been leaking behind

Vanity

Refresh
New top and hardware on a sound base
Replace
Swollen particleboard base — extremely common, and refinishing will not save it

Fixtures and hardware

Refresh
Not applicable — these are consumables
Replace
Always on a turn. Cheap, immediately visible, and the first thing a tenant touches

Manufactured-home sizing will bite you

This is the detail that most reliably stalls a turn.

Manufactured homes frequently use fixture and cabinet dimensions that do not match standard site-built stock. Tubs are the usual culprit — a home may need a manufactured-home unit rather than a standard 60-inch tub, and the two are not interchangeable. Vanity widths and some cabinet runs have the same problem.

Ordering standard stock for a home that needs manufactured-home sizing means the bathroom sits out of service until the correct unit arrives, which on a turn schedule is the difference between a five-day turn and a fifteen-day one. We size from the home rather than from the catalogue.

What we check while the room is open

Every kitchen and bath scope includes an inspection that costs almost nothing at that moment and a great deal later:

  • Supply lines and shut-off valves — braided stainless replacements are a few dollars and they are the most common origin of a flood
  • Wax ring and toilet flange — a slow failure here is the leading cause of subfloor rot in a manufactured home
  • Subfloor condition beneath both the toilet and the tub — soft decking found now is a subfloor repair; soft decking found after the finishes are in is a second demolition

If the deck under either room is failing, we will tell you before the finishes go in rather than build a new bathroom on top of a floor that is going to need replacing.

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How the job runs

  1. Walk-through

    We walk the job with you in person and look at what is actually there.

  2. Written scope

    A written scope and price before any work starts, priced as shown above.

  3. The work

    Our own crews do it, to the written scope. Anything extra is a written change order first.

  4. Final walk-through

    We walk it again with you and close out anything on the punch list.

Step one is a walk-through.

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Common questions

Not always, and this is the most common source of a stalled turn. Tubs, vanities and some cabinet runs in manufactured homes use dimensions that do not match standard site-built stock. Ordering a standard 60-inch tub for a home that needs a manufactured-home unit puts the bathroom out of service until the right one arrives.

Reface when the cabinet boxes are structurally sound and only the doors and finish are tired — which is most homes. Replace when the boxes are water damaged at the sink base or the layout itself is the problem. Refacing a sound box is a fraction of the cost and takes a day rather than three.

Supply lines, shut-off valves, the wax ring, and the condition of the subfloor under both the toilet and the tub. Every one of those is cheap while the room is apart and expensive once it is finished, and a failed supply line under a bath is the single most common cause of subfloor failure we see.

Yes. Bath-only is a common scope on a make-ready where the kitchen is sound. We price the rooms separately for that reason rather than bundling them.

W-9, written safety programme and certificates of insurance (GL and workers’ comp): being prepared. What is published so far is on vendor credentials.

Usually specified alongside

Where we perform kitchen & bath refresh

Self-performed crews based in Houston. Each city page carries local housing context.

Houston-area city pages