Construction and remodeling services across Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach County

We handle full kitchen remodels, full bathroom remodels, full home renovations, new construction, and home additions only. Five scope bands, one Florida Certified General Contractor's license, one team of in-house crews from framing through final inspection.

We do not take on:

• Small jobs of any kind. No partial cosmetic refreshes, no single-fixture replacements, no vanity swaps
• Single-room paint-only or single-room flooring-only jobs
• Touch-ups, drywall patching, single-trade visits
• Drywall repair, fan installation, gutter cleaning, furniture assembly
• Roof repair, exterior painting standalone, deck or patio standalone
• Cabinet installation as a standalone scope (only as part of a full kitchen or bathroom remodel)
• Tile installation as a standalone scope (only as part of a full kitchen, bathroom, or home renovation)
• Commercial general contractor work (residential GC only — kitchens, bathrooms, additions, whole-home, residential new construction)

The scope gate exists because the right project for Gaven runs through the full six-phase process: discovery, design, permitting, demolition and rough trades, finishes and installation, punch and closeout. Anything smaller is the wrong fit for our team and our license class.

Most clients come to us for a kitchen or a primary bath. That's the core of what we do. Both services are scoped across four pricing tiers, so the work fits the home and the budget without forcing a single template onto every project. Full detail lives on the kitchen remodeling tentpole and bathroom remodeling tentpole.

The other three services on this page exist because kitchen and bathroom projects rarely stay inside their own walls. Open a load-bearing wall during a kitchen remodel, and it becomes a structural project. Add square footage to a primary bath, and it's an addition. Start with "just the kitchen and the two bathrooms," and you're often looking at a whole-home renovation by the end. That last pattern, a single-room remodel that grows into a multi-service project mid-design, is the most common scope-shift we see across Miami-Dade residential renovation.

All five services run under a single Certified General Contractor's license, GCG1524886. In-house crews handle framing, finish, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, and project management on every job. We work across Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach County. One license, one team, one point of accountability, whether it's a single room or a full gut.

Best full home renovation companies in Miami for new homeowners: what we mean by that

The phrase "best full home renovation companies in Miami" is the search a new homeowner runs after the first kitchen quote comes back and the scope is bigger than expected. The decision under that search isn't really about who's best in the abstract. It's about who can scope the project honestly the first time, hold the FEMA 50% rule and the Miami-Dade permit windows in their head, and tell a new homeowner the truth about what their renovation is actually going to cost before contracts get signed. That's the conversation we want to have on the first site visit, not in the third change order.

This is the decision framework most Miami homeowners are actually inside when they start calling general contractors. The signs that signal you need a remodeler are rarely "the kitchen is dated" — they are the deeper scope-shift triggers that turn a single-room remodel into a multi-service project. Five patterns surface most often.

The hardest moment in a Miami residential renovation isn't the construction. It's the moment in the second or third site visit when the homeowner realizes the project they thought they were doing isn't the project that's actually going to get built. We see four scope-shift patterns more than any others.

The kitchen remodel that grows into a first-floor gut. A homeowner starts with cabinets, countertops, and appliances. Demo opens up the wall behind the cooktop and reveals 1980s electrical that doesn't meet current code. The dishwasher line is galvanized and has to come out. The wall between the kitchen and the dining room turns out to be load-bearing, and removing it for the open-plan layout requires a steel beam, structural engineering, and a stamped permit drawing. By the time the actual scope is mapped, the project is a complete gut renovation with the kitchen in the middle of it. The decision point — gut now or phase the work — has to be made before the first wall comes down, not after.

The addition that becomes a tear-down. A homeowner in a coastal flood zone wants to add 600 square feet for a primary suite. The structure's tax-assessed value, excluding land, is $400,000. The proposed work (addition plus the cosmetic kitchen and bath upgrades the homeowner was already planning) totals $250,000. That's 62% of pre-improvement structure value, and it triggers FEMA's Substantial Improvement rule. The entire structure has to be raised to Base Flood Elevation plus freeboard. On a slab-on-grade house, the cost of raising the structure exceeds the structure's market value, so the rational path becomes demolition and ground-up new construction. Industry coverage of these scope-shifts documents cases where a $180K renovation triggers $600K–$900K+ in compliance costs once SI applies. The 50% rule is cumulative across 12 months, even across separate permits: a kitchen permit in Q1 plus a bath permit in Q3 can cross the threshold together.

The whole-home remodel that adds an addition mid-design. A homeowner buys a 1970s ranch with the intention of a full interior gut, then realizes the existing footprint can't hold a primary suite that meets the way the family actually lives. The interior gut and the addition are scoped together from the start, not bolted onto each other midway through. This is the cleanest of the four patterns, but only if the addition's structural and FEMA implications get screened before the gut work begins.

The new construction that's actually a substantial-improvement remodel. A homeowner with a tear-down lot and a homestead exemption faces a tax-basis decision that has nothing to do with construction. Voluntary demolition extinguishes the Save Our Homes cap and resets the property to current market value on the next tax roll. The documented case of a Florida couple whose property taxes rose to $91,000 per year after a renovation the appraiser deemed equivalent to new construction is the canonical cautionary tale. Sometimes the rational path is to preserve the existing structural envelope, perform a substantial-improvement remodel that stays under the SI threshold, and protect the homestead. Sometimes it isn't. The decision is the homeowner's; the GC's job is to surface it before the demo permit gets pulled.

The framework we use on every initial site visit is built around eight scope categories: FEMA flood-zone status and structure-only assessed value, roof age and condition, window and door NOA compliance, structural modifications, plumbing supply lines, HVAC sizing and zone boundaries, tax basis and homestead status, and timeline. The pre-construction conversation surfaces the scope-shift triggers in those categories before the contract gets written, not after.

A residential renovation in Miami-Dade or Broward involves at least five regulated trades (framing, electrical, plumbing, mechanical, roofing) and at least three permit-and-inspection tracks. Coordinating that work is the licensed General Contractor's actual job. Not picking finishes, not running schedules in a project-management app: the operational core of the role is making sure the framing inspection passes before the electrician arrives for rough-in, the plumbing rough-in passes before the drywall goes up, the roof tie-down inspection passes before the roofer puts on sheathing, and the impact window installation matches the Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance specification exactly. When that coordination breaks, the building department's most common cited violations follow. Florida Building Commission survey data shows strapping, connector, and window-and-door violations cluster in Broward and Palm Beach Counties at rates that directly reflect inadequate inter-trade coordination on hurricane-zone work.

Every Gaven project runs under our Florida Certified General Contractor's license, GCG1524886. In-house crews handle framing, finish carpentry, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, and project management on every job. We do not outsource project supervision to general subcontracted trades and then bill it as "GC services." The framing crew that opens up your wall is the same crew that closes it. The plumber who runs your kitchen rough-in is the same plumber who hooks up your fixtures. The project manager who walks you through the permit-set drawings is the same project manager who's on site for the framing inspection.

This matters operationally for four reasons.

Permit-and-inspection coordination. Under Miami-Dade's permitting framework, the master permit holder is responsible for sequencing framing and structural inspections across every trade involved. Each licensed trade pulls a sub-permit under the master and is responsible for calling its own rough-in and final inspections. When trades are independently contracted by the homeowner (what's sometimes called owner-builder or trade-by-trade contracting), no party owns the sequencing. The most common documented sequencing failures are electrical rough-in scheduled before framing approval, drywall installed before plumbing rough-in passes, and roofing started before tie-down inspection clears. Each of those failures requires demolition and reinspection. On Gaven jobs, the project manager owns the sequence end-to-end.

Lien-release pass-through. Florida's Construction Lien Law (Chapter 713, Florida Statutes) gives any licensed contractor, subcontractor, or supplier furnishing labor or materials to a residential project the right to file a lien against the property, even when the homeowner never contracted directly with that party. The double-payment risk on a renovation is real: a homeowner who makes final payment without obtaining a Final Contractor's Affidavit and lien releases from all participating parties can be forced to pay again if the GC fails to pay its subs. We provide sworn partial payment affidavits at every draw and a Final Contractor's Affidavit at completion. Lien releases come standard, not on request.

Warranty pass-through. When a defect spans multiple trades (water intrusion at a window installation where the flashing was installed by one party, the window by another, and the stucco by a third), Florida's Chapter 558 construction defect process requires the homeowner to serve pre-suit notice on every responsible party separately. With a single GC, the homeowner serves notice on us. We pursue claims against responsible subs. The homeowner gets a single point of contact for the duration of the four-year statute of limitations and the seven-year statute of repose.

Insurance coverage continuity. Our Certified General Contractor's license carries the Florida CILB minimum general liability and property damage coverage as a baseline, with builder's risk coverage layered on for the duration of every active project. Documented owner-builder case studies modeling a $1 million whole-home renovation show net cost overruns of $158,000 versus a GC-managed budget once material discounts, schedule overruns, and rework are accounted for, before insurance gaps are factored in. National Association of Home Builders industry data confirms the same pattern at scale: the 15–20% GC fee that owner-builder homeowners try to save typically gets eliminated and exceeded by the cost of failure.

The single-GC structure is the operational backbone of every service on this page. It's why all five services share a single accountability model. It's why our crews don't change between the kitchen scope and the addition scope. It's why your project manager's phone number doesn't change three months in.

Every service on this page operates inside the same regulatory frame. Florida Building Code 8th Edition is the current code revision, applicable to permits issued through December 30, 2026. The 9th Edition takes effect December 31, 2026, incorporating updated wind-load calculations and an expanded hardened-envelope mandate for new residential construction within five miles of tidal water, which captures most of the Miami-Dade and Broward coastal footprint. Projects in the planning phase right now have a meaningful permit-timing decision: lock the design under 8th Edition rules before December 31, or accept the 9th Edition update window. Either path is workable; the cost and scope implications are different and worth surfacing during initial scope discussions.

The High-Velocity Hurricane Zone (HVHZ) designation applies to all of Miami-Dade and Broward Counties, with portions of Palm Beach County also qualifying based on coastal proximity and wind-speed mapping. HVHZ imposes stricter wind-load and impact-glazing requirements than standard Florida zones. Every window, door, roofing component, and structural connector installed in HVHZ jurisdictions must carry a current Miami-Dade Notice of Acceptance, a product-specific approval issued after testing under the Test Application Standard protocols (TAS 201 large-missile impact, TAS 202 cyclic pressure, TAS 203 water resistance). Products approved for non-HVHZ Florida markets may not carry Miami-Dade NOA and cannot be installed under a Miami-Dade or Broward permit. Substituting a product mid-installation voids the original NOA approval. Coordination of NOA verification, fastener spacing, anchor type, and flashing detail across multiple installing trades is one of the failure modes the licensed GC structure exists to prevent.

FEMA's Substantial Improvement rule, codified at 44 CFR § 59.1 and mirrored in Florida law through FBC Section 1612.2, applies to any structure in a Special Flood Hazard Area. When the cost of reconstruction, rehabilitation, addition, or other improvement equals or exceeds 50% of the structure's pre-improvement market value (excluding land), the entire structure must be brought into compliance with current floodplain management standards: raised to Base Flood Elevation, with flood-resistant materials below BFE, compliant utilities, and a full code update. The rule is cumulative over rolling 12-month windows, even across separate permits. A homeowner who phases work (kitchen in Q1, primary bath in Q3, HVAC replacement in Q4) has those costs added together against the same denominator. A pre-construction screening that establishes the structure-only assessed value, identifies any 12-month permit history, and flags the SI threshold is one of the eight scope categories we walk through on every initial site visit.

Permit windows differ across the three counties. Miami-Dade processes typical residential renovation permits in 2–8 weeks depending on complexity, with permits valid for 180 days and renewals available. The county's Building Department fees are structured at approximately 0.5% of projected construction cost, with a Notice of Commencement required for any project over $2,500 per Florida Statute 713.13. Broward County requires permits for any construction, alteration, or repair through unincorporated Broward and contract cities, with plan review timelines of 3–5 business days for simple permits and 15–30 business days for complex projects routing through building, zoning, fire, and utilities. Palm Beach County uses a valuation-schedule fee structure that scales with construction cost and includes a slower review reputation in Boca Raton specifically. The permit-timing planning that happens during initial scope discussion isn't paperwork; it's the difference between a project that breaks ground when the homeowner expects it to and one that loses six weeks to a routing the GC didn't anticipate.

A licensed Certified General Contractor (license type CGC under Florida Statute Chapter 489) is the only license class authorized to manage virtually any structure scope on a Florida residential renovation, including structural modifications, multi-trade coordination, and additions. A Certified Building Contractor (CBC) is limited to residential and commercial up to three stories. A Certified Residential Contractor (CRC) is limited to residential up to two stories. A Registered Contractor is limited to county or municipal jurisdictions. Specialty licenses (electrical, plumbing, HVAC, roofing) are required for each trade regardless of which GC license tier is on the project. Verifying a contractor's license type before signing a contract is a homeowner protection that takes about two minutes at MyFloridaLicense.com and protects the entire project downstream.

Pricing varies by service and by tier within each service. The honest summary across the five-service ladder:

• Kitchen remodel: $20,000–$300,000+ across four tiers. See kitchen tentpole for full tier detail and the Miami kitchen remodel cost guide for tier-by-tier cost breakdowns.
• Bathroom remodel: $8,000–$130,000+ across four tiers. See bathroom tentpole for full tier detail and the Miami bathroom remodel cost guide for tier-by-tier cost breakdowns.
• Full home renovation / complete gut renovation: $150–$400 per square foot. $200,000–$1,500,000+ typical project window. Most projects land $400,000–$800,000. Complete gut renovation cost depends on scope depth (interior walls, structural openings, window replacement), finish tier, HVHZ envelope work, and whether FEMA substantial improvement applies.
• Home addition: $80,000–$400,000 for a typical room addition or second-story scope. Engineered foundation and structural connection to existing framing add cost above straight remodel scope.
• New construction: Highly variable based on lot, wind zone, finish tier. New construction is priced project-by-project after feasibility review.

We do not publish a fixed-tier ladder for whole-home renovation or new construction the way the kitchen and bathroom tentpoles do. The combinations are too many and the per-project variance too genuine to compress into four tiers honestly. Pricing is built up from the kitchen tier, the bathroom tiers, the interior trade scope, and the envelope and structural scope. We walk through that build during the consultation. The consultation is free; there is no trip fee. For broader Florida GC pricing context across multiple project types, our 2026 Florida general contractor cost guide walks through fee structures, percentage-vs-fixed pricing models, and the cost variables that drive the 15–20% GC fee benchmark on residential work.

Most clients call or submit a form on the website. We respond the same business day during our 7:00 AM – 10:00 PM Monday–Friday hours. The first conversation is a 15–20 minute scope call to understand the project type, the property, and the timeline you're working against. The full six-phase process — discovery, design, permitting, demolition and rough trades, finishes and installation, punch and closeout — lives on the our process page, with phase-by-phase detail.

The site visit comes next, typically within 5–7 business days. Site visits run 60–90 minutes for kitchen and bathroom scope, two to four hours for whole-home and addition scope, longer for new construction lot walks. We document the existing conditions, run the FEMA flood-zone screening on properties in or near a Special Flood Hazard Area, photograph the existing electrical panel and HVAC system, and walk through the eight scope categories that drive every Gaven proposal.

You receive a written proposal within 5–10 business days of the site visit. The proposal includes scope, schedule range, and pricing band — all three before signing, none of it surfaced as change orders mid-project. If the project moves forward, design and permitting account for 3–12 weeks before any work begins. The realistic call-to-construction-start runway is 8–20 weeks for most multi-service Gaven projects.

Pricing variance is real and documented honestly during the proposal phase. A kitchen remodel that grows mid-design from cabinet replacement into a load-bearing wall removal is not a 20% scope change — it's a different project, and we surface that before contract, not during demo.

Project narrative is illustrative pending Phase 0 portfolio audit. The building characteristics, scope, and outcome described here represent the multi-service project pattern Gaven delivers, not a specific named past project. Real project documentation will replace this section once the audit closes.

A long-term homeowner in Coral Gables called us about a primary bath that had stopped working for the way the family lived: too small, dated fixtures, a pre-1990s plumbing layout that limited the renovation scope unless we touched the supply lines. The first site visit surfaced three additional scope categories within twenty minutes of walking the house. The kitchen, last touched in the late 1990s, had a galley layout the homeowner had been quietly hating for fifteen years. The HVAC system was at the end of its service life and would not hold the conditioned-zone load if the bath and kitchen layouts changed. And the powder bath off the foyer had cosmetic issues that signaled active envelope leakage somewhere upstream.

The honest scope conversation took ninety minutes. The homeowner had budgeted for a primary-bath remodel. The actual project that needed to happen — primary bath, full kitchen renovation miami scope with a load-bearing wall removal, full HVAC replacement and redesign, powder bath investigation that became a stucco and flashing remediation at one corner of the house — was four times the original budget anchor and required a full design phase before any demo started. The primary bath portion alone would have anchored a standalone bathroom renovation miami project, but absorbing it into the multi-service scope coordinated the trade sequencing across all four areas.

The project ran twenty-six weeks across four permit phases. The kitchen and primary bath were scoped together from the start. The structural engineering for the load-bearing wall removal was completed before demo, with a stamped permit drawing covering the steel beam specification and end-connection detail. Plumbing rough-in for both the kitchen and primary bath happened on the same inspection track, sequenced behind framing approval and ahead of drywall. The HVAC redesign was integrated into the conditioned-zone calculation that fell out of the new kitchen layout, so we sized the system once for the final state of the house rather than twice for an interim and a final state. The powder-bath envelope remediation was its own permit but coordinated with the same project-management team, so the homeowner had one phone number for the duration of the entire project rather than four.

The pattern in this project is the pattern in most multi-service Gaven work — and at the upper tier band, this is what a luxury home renovation actually looks like in execution: a single decision point at the start of design that maps the full scope, a coordinated permit schedule that runs the trades in the right sequence, and a project-management structure that doesn't reset every time the scope crosses a service boundary. The whole-home renovation outcome was achieved through six months of coordinated work, not through a series of independently scoped renovations bolted together over years.

License: Florida Certified General Contractor, GCG1524886. Verifiable at MyFloridaLicense.com. The CGC license is the only license class authorized for virtually any residential structure scope in Florida, including structural modifications and additions. A Certified Building Contractor (CBC) is limited to three-story scope; a Certified Residential Contractor (CRC) is limited to two-story scope; a Registered Contractor is limited to county or municipal jurisdictions. Verifying a GC's license tier before signing a contract takes two minutes and protects the project downstream.

Insurance: General liability and property damage coverage at Florida CILB minimums and above. Builder's risk coverage on every active project. Workers' compensation coverage for all in-house crews per Florida Statute 440.10. Certificates of insurance are part of every contract package; we provide them on signing, not on request.

Permit verification: 37+ projects with BuildZoom-verified permit records. Permit number transparency is part of how we work. We do not run unpermitted scope on structural, electrical, plumbing, or mechanical work.

Reviews: 5.0 stars across 60+ Google reviews. Review specificity matters more than star count. The reviews on our profile name specific scope, specific neighborhoods, and specific project outcomes.

When you're choosing between contractors for a multi-service residential project in Miami-Dade, Broward, or Palm Beach County, the same five questions surface the operational truth quickly. Ask any GC you're evaluating. The answers you get tell you what kind of company you're actually hiring.

What license class do you hold, and where can I verify it? The answer should be specific: license type (CGC, CBC, CRC, or Registered), license number, and the exact URL where the homeowner can verify it. "We're licensed and insured" is not an answer. Gaven's answer: Florida Certified General Contractor, GCG1524886, verifiable at MyFloridaLicense.com.

Are your project supervisors and core crews in-house, or are you subcontracting project management? A GC who outsources project supervision is selling you the license, not the team. The homeowner ends up coordinating between the named GC and an unnamed project manager, with no contractual privity to the actual person running the job. Gaven's answer: in-house. Framing, finish, plumbing, electrical, mechanical, and project management run with our crews on every job.

How do you handle Florida construction lien law and the Final Contractor's Affidavit? A GC who can't explain the Notice of Commencement, the Notice to Owner, and the Final Affidavit pass-through is not running the project structure that protects the homeowner from double-payment liability. Gaven's answer: every project gets a recorded Notice of Commencement before work begins, sworn partial payment affidavits at every draw, and a Final Contractor's Affidavit with all lien releases at completion.

What's your process for FEMA Substantial Improvement screening on flood-zone properties? Any homeowner in a Special Flood Hazard Area should hear an answer that includes structure-only assessed value, 12-month permit history, and the cumulative cost calculation against the 50% threshold. A GC who hasn't run that calculation before scope is fixed is not protecting the homeowner from the most expensive scope-shift pattern in Miami residential renovation. Gaven's answer: SI screening is one of the eight scope categories on every initial site visit for any property in or near an SFHA.

What's the difference between general liability coverage and builder's risk coverage on my project? General liability covers third-party injury and property damage on the jobsite; builder's risk covers the structure itself during the active build phase, including weather and storm exposure on an open-envelope condition. Hurricane deductibles in Florida are statutorily set at 2%, 5%, or 10% of insured value. On a $1 million home, that's $20,000–$100,000 of uninsured exposure if the structure is open during a named storm. A GC who can't explain how that exposure is managed during your project is leaving you holding the deductible. Gaven's answer: builder's risk on every project, weather protection protocols built into the construction schedule, and coordinated storm shutdown procedures during named-storm watches and warnings.

The five questions above are not designed to disqualify other contractors. They're designed to give the homeowner the operational vocabulary to make a real comparison, rather than a comparison based on which firm has the smoother sales pitch.

The dedicated page for each service:

• Kitchen remodeling → /kitchen-remodeling-miami/(core specialty)
• Bathroom remodeling → /bathroom-remodeling-miami/(core specialty)
• Whole-home remodels → /home-remodeling-miami-fl/
• Home additions → /home-additions-miami/
• Ground-up new construction → /services/new-construction/

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