Two schedules decide your kitchen: how long your cabinets take, and how fast your town’s building department moves. We put both on the estimate.
Stock cabinetry typically arrives in one to three weeks, semi-custom in four to seven, and full custom commonly in eight to twelve, sometimes sixteen. Spring and fall are peak renovation seasons and stretch those windows. Any change after you approve the order restarts part of the clock, which is why selections get locked before ordering rather than adjusted along the way.
There is no county building permit. Permits come from the building department of the town, city or village your house sits in, and the county has 48 of them, each administering independently under the New York State Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code. Each sets its own submission requirements, keeps its own review staff, and meets on its own calendar. Two identical kitchens in neighboring villages can start weeks apart for reasons that have nothing to do with the kitchen.
What the county issues is the contractor's license, not the permit. Ours is #WC-39446-H20-25, verifiable with the Department of Consumer Protection at (914) 995-2155. Note that the county licenses plumbers and electricians separately from home improvement contractors, so the trades on your job carry their own credentials, and we produce that paperwork with the filing.
The county's housing stock splits along the river, not along north and south.
In the river villages, the Hudson-side communities with their Victorian and early-twentieth-century houses, kitchens were built as closed service rooms at the back of the house. The common project is opening one up: removing a wall to reach the dining room, which turns the job into a structural question before a finish question. Plaster over lath and cast-iron waste lines are the norm behind the surfaces.
Inland and further out, the postwar build dominates: Cape Cods, split-levels and brick-veneer Colonials from the 1950s through the 1970s, concentrated around Yonkers, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle and White Plains. These kitchens are usually larger and more open already, and the work is more often a full replacement within the existing envelope than a structural reconfiguration.
Knowing which you have changes the estimate, the filing and the schedule. We establish it at the visit.
Everything out, layout reconsidered, trades resequenced. The scope where cabinet lead time and your town's review calendar both have to be settled before demolition.
The signature river-village project. Whether the wall carries load changes the filing, the schedule and the price, so it is answered before anything is drawn.
Stock, semi-custom or full custom, with counters templated after the boxes are set. Templating early is one of the most common causes of a re-cut.
Tile after counters, flooring sequenced against cabinet delivery so it is not damaged by the installation that follows it.
Cabinet lead time and your municipality's review path, before you commit, not after the contract.
#WC-39446-H20-25, verifiable at (914) 995-2155. County law requires it in advertising; it is on every page here.
A 1920s river-village kitchen and a 1960s split-level kitchen are different projects behind the surfaces.
One crew lead runs your project from demolition to final walk-through. Every trade, from plumbing to tile to finish carpentry, is coordinated through us, on our schedule, held to our quality standard. You never have to coordinate between separate companies.
It depends on your town and your scope, but there is no county permit either way. Permits are issued by your municipality's building department, and the county has 48 of them administering independently under the state code. Replacing cabinets and finishes in place often does not trigger a filing; altering plumbing, gas or electrical generally does. We confirm your town's requirement at the estimate.
Stock cabinetry typically arrives in one to three weeks, semi-custom in four to seven, and full custom commonly in eight to twelve weeks, sometimes sixteen. Spring and fall are peak renovation seasons and stretch those windows further. Because everything else is dimensioned around the cabinets, this is usually the date the whole project is built around.
Usually yes, but whether the wall carries structural load determines everything that follows: the filing, the engineering, the schedule and the price. This is the most common request in the county's older river-village homes, where kitchens were originally built as closed service rooms. We answer the load question at the estimate, before any design work begins.
Yes. Kadima Construction holds Westchester County home improvement license #WC-39446-H20-25, which covers home improvement work anywhere in the county, and carries $1,000,000 in general liability insurance. Verify it with the Department of Consumer Protection at (914) 995-2155. The county licenses plumbers and electricians separately, so those trades carry their own credentials, which we supply with the permit filing.
Tell us your town and what you have in mind. We will confirm the permit path for your municipality, price the cabinet decision with its real lead time, and give you a written date.
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