Sam & Sons Services remodels bathrooms, kitchens and basements and builds home additions across Northern Virginia and Washington DC, under a Virginia contractor license held since 1999. A remodel here is a permitted, inspected project: we pull and process the permits ourselves, build to the Virginia building code, and the closing portion of the contract is not released until the county has passed the final inspection. The plumbing, electrical and mechanical work inside the project is done by our own licensed trades.
Every remodeling service, page by page
Remodeling projects we take on
- Bathroom remodeling
- Stripped to the framing: fixtures, floor tile, shower tile and the board behind it all come out, the subfloor and framing are inspected, and the room is rebuilt on cement board with new supply, waste and venting.
- Kitchen remodeling
- Appliances, sink, cabinets and countertops out, floor down to the subfloor, then rebuilt from the structure up — including the circuits, the plumbing rough-in and any wall that is coming down.
- Basement finishing
- Water and moisture first, at the walls and outside the house, before a single stud goes up. Then framing, insulation, mechanicals, board, finishes and egress.
- Home additions
- Drawings and a permit, then excavation, footings and foundation to the approved structural details, followed by framing, envelope, mechanicals and finish.
How a remodeling project runs, start to finish
- Site visit and written scope. An estimator walks the space, measures, looks at what is behind the existing finishes where that is possible, and writes the scope down.
- Drawings and permit. Where the project needs them, the drawings are produced and the permit application is prepared and filed by our office.
- Demolition and discovery. The room comes apart. This is where hidden conditions surface — rot, failed waterproofing, undersized framing, wiring that was never right — and where a written change to the scope is agreed before work continues.
- Rough-in and inspection. Framing, plumbing, electrical and mechanical rough-in, then the county inspects before anything is closed up.
- Insulation, board and finishes. Cement board where tile is going, drywall elsewhere, then tile, flooring, trim, paint and fixtures.
- Final inspection and close-out. The county passes the finished work, and only then is the last portion of the contract released.
Permits, drawings and inspections on a remodel
Remodeling is permitted work almost without exception. Moving plumbing, altering circuits, changing structure, finishing a basement or adding to a building all require a permit in the jurisdictions we serve.
- We pull and process the permit ourselves. It is our office that files it and our office that schedules the inspections. The fees are written into the contract before work starts.
- Construction is performed to the Virginia building code, and in the District to the code that applies there. That is recorded on the contract rather than assumed.
- There is more than one inspection. A remodel is typically inspected at rough-in and again at completion, and work does not get covered up ahead of the inspector.
- Final payment follows final inspection. On permitted projects the closing portion of the contract is held back until the county has passed the job.
Bathroom and kitchen remodeling behind the walls
The visible half of a bathroom or kitchen remodel is tile, cabinets and fixtures. The half that decides whether it lasts is behind them.
Wet areas are built on cement board rather than paper-faced drywall, with the waterproofing detailed at the corners and the curb. Framing that has been wet is treated with mold control and stain-blocking primer before new board goes on. Supply lines, waste, traps and venting are renewed while the wall is open rather than reconnected to whatever was there, and the plumbing work is on the same contract as the remodel. Circuits are brought up to current requirements, which in a kitchen usually means dedicated appliance circuits and protected receptacles — see electrical.
Where the finishes need extending beyond the room, tile and flooring work is carried out by the same crews on the same contract.
Basement finishing and home additions
These two projects share a problem the smaller remodels do not have: they create conditioned space that did not exist before, which every other system in the house has to absorb.
- Moisture comes before framing. In a basement, cracks are filled, the foundation is coated and the grading and drainage outside are corrected first. Building a finished room over an unresolved water problem simply hides it — see foundation, grading and crawl space repair.
- Heating and cooling has to reach it. New rooms need supply and return, and the existing system has to be able to carry them. That is ductwork and system capacity work, checked before the plan is fixed.
- The panel has to carry the load. New circuits for a finished basement or an addition often mean the service is reassessed — see electrical panel upgrades.
- Egress and fire separation are code items, not options. They are designed in at drawing stage rather than discovered at inspection.
Living in the house during a remodel
Most of our remodeling clients stay in the house while the work runs. That is why dust containment is written into the contract rather than offered as an extra: plastic dust barriers and dust tents at the openings, floor and furniture protection through the route the crews use, and debris removal and cleanup at the end of the job.
The other half of living through it is sequencing — knowing which day the water is off, which day the power is off to a circuit, and when the inspector is coming. One company running all the trades is what makes that schedule hold, because there is nobody to wait on.
Why remodeling with one licensed company matters
A remodel is four or five trades working in the same room in a fixed order. When those trades belong to different companies, every handover is a delay and every defect is an argument about whose it was.
Sam & Sons Services LLC holds Virginia DPOR class A contractor license #2705070610 and staffs plumbing, heating and cooling, electrical, handyman and home repair and remodeling itself. One contract covers the project, one warranty covers the labor for a year, and one number, answered 24 hours a day, covers anything afterwards.
Remodeling across Northern Virginia and Washington DC
We have remodeled in this area since 1999, mostly in single-family homes, along with condos, townhouses and commercial units where the building rules and the association add their own requirements. Remodeling and home repair are offered in Washington DC as well as throughout Northern Virginia; every town we cover is listed on service areas.
How a remodeling project is priced
We do not quote remodeling prices by phone and we do not publish them. A remodel is priced from a written scope after an estimator has seen the space, because two identical-looking bathrooms can differ by a joist, a vent stack, a water-damaged subfloor or an association rule. You receive a written price covering the scope, the materials and the permit fees before demolition begins, and any change discovered after the walls open is priced in writing before it goes ahead.