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Kitchen, bath and home remodeling for Greensboro, NC
We plan, permit and build kitchens, bathrooms, additions and screened porches across Greensboro and the Piedmont Triad, and the phone is answered around the clock, so the first conversation happens whenever you are ready for it.
Call any hour, any day. Office in Randleman, work across the Triad.
Kitchens, bathrooms, additions and porches for Greensboro houses, from 1920s bungalows near downtown to bonus-room colonials on the north side.
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Short answer
Most Greensboro remodels start with one phone call and a walk-through at the house. We measure, look under the floors and behind the walls where we can, then hand you a written scope for the kitchen, bathroom, addition or porch you have in mind, and the permit question gets answered before any demolition.
A remodel that starts with how your house was built
Half of Greensboro's houses went up before the mid-1980s, which means most of the kitchens and bathrooms we open have already been remodeled once, sometimes twice. The plywood under a 1990s tub, the duct run hiding behind a soffit, the crawl space under the kitchen floor: those are the things that decide how a remodel goes, so we look at them first.
Polecat Remodeling works out of Randleman and takes on kitchens, bathrooms, additions, bonus rooms, porches, floors and the repair work that turns up once walls come open. We keep one person on your project from the first visit to the final walk-through, and we tell you what we found, including the problems you did not call about.
Rooms we remodel
Every room, grouped the way a remodel actually runs
Forty-six kinds of work, sorted by the room they happen in. Each page explains the job, what it costs in this market and how we do it.
Bathrooms
Full baths, showers, tubs, vanities and safer baths.
Additions & whole-home
More room, better layouts, finished bonus space.
Floors, walls & trim
Hardwood, LVP, tile, paint, drywall and built-ins.
Porches, decks & exterior
Screened porches, decks, windows, doors and siding.
Repairs, rebuilds & access
Rot, soft floors, damage rebuilds and accessible homes.
Local houses
What Greensboro houses ask of a remodel
Greensboro's housing boom ran from the 1980s through the 2000s, with older streetcar suburbs and 1920s neighborhoods close to downtown. Those two eras need different remodels. The newer houses tend to have a builder-grade kitchen, a garden tub nobody uses and a bonus room over the garage that runs hot all summer. The older ones hide original hardwood, plaster walls and, sometimes, galvanized pipe.
Most of them sit over a crawl space rather than a basement, and NC State Extension notes that subterranean termites and damp crawl spaces go together here. So when we price a bathroom, we also look at the joists under it.
- 1985is roughly the median year Greensboro homes were built; about 43 percent of homes predate 1980.
- $15kis where Greensboro starts requiring a building permit for non-structural work; structural work always needs one.
- 3local historic districts, College Hill, Fisher Park and Dunleath, need a Certificate of Appropriateness for exterior work.
- 18%of Guilford County residents are 65 or older, which is why grab bars and curbless showers come up so often.
Sources: ACS housing data via Point2Homes, City of Greensboro inspections, Greensboro historic preservation, Census QuickFacts, NC State Extension.
How a remodel runs
From the first call to the final walk-through
- 01
The walk-through
We come to the house, measure, photograph and look under the floor and into the attic where the work will reach.
- 02
A written scope
You get the work in writing, room by room, with the materials named and the decisions you still have to make listed.
- 03
Permits and orders
If the city or county needs a permit, we pull it. Cabinets, tile and windows get ordered so they arrive before we need them.
- 04
Demolition and the reveal
Walls and floors come open. Anything we find behind them, such as rot, old wiring or a hidden leak, gets shown to you before it is fixed.
- 05
Building it back
Framing, rough-ins and inspections, then drywall, tile, cabinets, trim and paint, with the house cleaned up at the end of every day.
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Walk-through and punch list
We go room by room with you, write down anything that is not right, and come back until the list is done.
Room ideas
Where most Greensboro remodels begin
The jobs we get asked about most, from full kitchens to the bonus room above the garage.
Cabinets from KraftMaid and Wellborn, fixtures from Kohler and Moen, Silestone and Cambria quartz, and Trex decking are among the brands we install and work with.
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How we work
The parts of a remodel homeowners worry about, handled up front
Nobody remembers the tile they almost picked. They remember whether the job ran on time and whether anyone told them what was going on.
One person from start to finish
The person who walks your house is the person you call with questions halfway through, not a new voice every week.
You see what we find
When a wall comes open and something is wrong, you get a photo and an explanation before any extra work starts.
Houses lived in during the work
Dust walls, a working sink when we can manage one and a clean floor at the end of the day, because most families stay home.
Inspections booked, not skipped
Rough-in and final inspections are scheduled as part of the job, so the work is signed off before the walls close.
Where we work
Greensboro first, and the Triad around it
From the office in Randleman we cover a radius of about 40 miles. The Piedmont Triad page lists every county, town and Greensboro neighborhood we serve.
Guilford County
Greensboro and the rest of Guilford, from Irving Park and Starmount to Summerfield, Oak Ridge and High Point, is where most of our kitchens and baths happen.
Forsyth County
Winston-Salem, Kernersville and Clemmons sit at the western edge of the radius, and we take on kitchens, additions and porches there.
Randolph County
Our Randleman office sits here, so Asheboro, Archdale and the lake side of Randleman are close by for repairs and remodels alike.
Davidson County
Thomasville and Lexington, where the median Lexington home dates to 1969, call for bathroom updates, floors and rot repair.
Alamance County
Burlington and Gibsonville, east on I-40 and I-85, pair late-1970s houses with newer Gibsonville streets where bonus rooms wait to be finished.
Rockingham County
Reidsville's older housing stock, some of the oldest in the area, keeps us busy with bath remodels, porches and repairs.
Remodeling ideas
Read before you call, if you like
Plain answers on cost, permits and the problems these houses are known for. More in Remodeling Ideas.
What a kitchen remodel costs in Greensboro
Published Greensboro ranges for small, medium and large kitchens, and the choices that move a project between them.
When a Greensboro remodel needs a permit
The city's $15,000 line for non-structural work, the state's $40,000 exemption and the jobs that always need a permit.
Soft floors over a crawl space
Why Piedmont crawl spaces rot subfloors near tubs and toilets, and how the repair is staged.
Questions
Questions Greensboro homeowners ask us
Block Renovation's Greensboro guide puts a small kitchen at roughly $22,000 to $38,000 and a medium one at $35,000 to $65,000, and the 2025 Cost vs Value report lists a midrange minor kitchen remodel in Greensboro at $27,027. Your number depends on cabinets, counters and whether plumbing moves; we price it after the walk-through.
Often, yes. The City of Greensboro requires a permit for any structural work and for non-structural work over $15,000, and plumbing changes such as moving a drain or connecting fixtures need a plumbing permit. We tell you at the walk-through which permits your job needs and we pull them.
Most families do. We put up dust walls, keep a path through the house and clean up every day. For a kitchen, we can usually set up a temporary sink or counter elsewhere so you are not washing dishes in the bathtub.
Yes. Exterior work in Greensboro's three local historic districts needs a Certificate of Appropriateness before a building permit is issued, and the guidelines favor repairing original wood rather than replacing it. Interior kitchens and baths are not reviewed.
We work across the Piedmont Triad within about 40 miles of our Randleman office, including High Point, Winston-Salem, Burlington, Asheboro, Summerfield and Oak Ridge. The service area page lists every county and town.
Yes. A vanity swap, a section of rotted fascia or a soft spot in a bathroom floor are all jobs we take, and they are often how we first get to know a house.
Yes. The line is answered 24 hours a day, every day. If a pipe has let go under a bathroom floor at midnight, call; we will tell you what to do right now and get the repair on the schedule.
Ready when you are
Tell us which room you want to change
Call and describe the room. We will set up a walk-through at the house, and you will know what happens next before we hang up.