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Renovating an occupied home: how we keep a family living through the work
Not every renovation client can move out. Here's how we sequence a project so a household can keep functioning around the dust.
Most of our renovation clients stay in the house while we work — moving out for months isn't realistic for a lot of families. That changes how we sequence a job.
We isolate work zones with temporary partitions and negative-air setups so dust doesn't migrate to the rooms still in use. Kitchens are usually the hardest case, so we build a temporary cooking station — a folding table, a hot plate, a mini-fridge — before we ever disconnect the real one. We also front-load the noisy, disruptive work (demolition, framing) into the first few weeks and push the quieter finish trades later, so the loudest phase is also the shortest.
It takes more planning than a vacant-house renovation, but it means our clients don't have to choose between the project and their routine.
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