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Fast, Reliable General Contractor Across South Miami
Hiring a general contractor in South Miami, FL usually runs between $10,620 and $53,100 for a kitchen or bath remodel, and $53,100 to $153,400 for a full home addition. Those numbers cover what we see most weeks across South Miami’s 1950s CBS ranches and newer two-story infill. The real question isn’t the starting price. It’s what happens when the wall comes open and the house has other ideas.
Our crews work South Miami neighborhoods from the Ludlam corridor down to the areas around Sunset Drive and Red Road every week. We know what hides inside these homes because we’ve opened hundreds of them since 2004. Call (850) 780-8123 and a live person answers. No call tree. We’ll talk through your project, give you a written price before anything starts, and tell you exactly who’s coming to your door, by name, before they arrive.
Why Mason Remodeling Co Miami Is South Miami’s Preferred General Contractor Company
Mason Remodeling Co Miami is part of the Threshold Group family of home-service companies, and we operate under the Threshold Standard on every job in South Miami. That means every technician is background-checked and identity-verified. Before a crew member arrives, you receive their name and photo. At your door, they show a photo ID badge and wear a clean, marked uniform. If you’re home alone with kids, or you’re an older adult deciding whether to open the door, that process matters.
Our customers in South Miami consistently tell us the same three things: they liked knowing the price before we started, they liked knowing who was coming, and they liked that when something needed a second look, we came back at no charge. The work is backed by our 365-Day Done Right Promise. If it’s not right within a year of completion, we make it right at no cost to you. No dispute process. No conditions.
Isaac Pruett leads our South Florida operations, and he sets the tone for how we treat people in South Miami: inspection first, written allowances, and no surprise invoices. Ever.
Styles & brands we work with
Residential General Contractor in South Miami
A Residential General Contractor in South Miami takes on the heavy remodeling work that touches structure, plumbing, electrical, and finish trades under one permit and one contract. In South Miami, that usually means working inside a 1950s-1970s concrete block home where the original cast-iron drain lines are still under the slab and the walls still carry the original cloth-insulated wiring. A kitchen remodel here isn’t just cabinets and counters. It’s a controlled opening of a house that’s been quietly aging for 60 or 70 years.
Typical South Miami costs: a full kitchen remodel runs $16,520 to $53,100. A bathroom remodel runs $10,620 to $33,040. Impact window installation runs $9,440 to $29,500, and roof replacement runs $9,440 to $23,600. A home addition starts at $53,100 and can reach $153,400 depending on scope, foundation, and hurricane retrofit requirements. Every one of those ranges assumes a written contract with allowances for what we find when we open the walls.
Whole-Home and Addition Work
South Miami’s shallow water table makes excavation and foundation work more involved than in neighborhoods west of the Palmetto or north toward Flagler. When we pull a permit for an addition on a ranch lot near Ludlam Trail, the structural engineer and the plumbing sub are on the same scope of work from day one.
That coordination saves you from cutting the slab twice: once for plumbing, once for piers. It’s cheaper that way, and it’s how experienced South Miami contractors work.
Bath and Kitchen Remodeling That Respects the Structure
In a South Miami CBS ranch, the tile and the vanity are the last thing we worry about. The first thing is what’s behind the drywall. We inspect before we quote, and we write allowances into the contract for rewiring, header repair, and cast-iron replacement. You see the number before we start, not after.
Hire a General Contractor in South Miami
When you hire a General Contractor in South Miami, you’re hiring someone to manage permits, inspections, trades, and the sequence of work that keeps a remodel moving. You’re also hiring someone to make sure the work meets South Florida building codes, which are some of the strictest in the country because of hurricane exposure. That’s not a paperwork formality here. It’s the difference between a window that holds in a storm and one that doesn’t.
We handle kitchen remodels, bathroom remodels, our Home Remodeling in South Miami, room additions, basement finishing, and deck construction across South Miami. For basement work specifically, South Miami’s water table means we’re usually doing moisture mitigation and drainage before any finish work. We’d rather tell you that at the estimate than surprise you after demolition.
Every project gets a written price before any work starts. No verbal estimates that grow. No change orders you didn’t approve in writing. Call (850) 780-8123 to schedule a free estimate.
How We Handle Hidden Conditions
On a ranch in the Ludlam area, our crew opened a wall for a kitchen remodel and found original 1960s wiring with degraded cloth insulation and a load-bearing header that a previous owner had notched to run ductwork. We stopped work, priced the rewiring and a new LVL beam as a written change order, and got inspection sign-off on the rough-in before we closed the wall.
That job finished on the original draw schedule because the contract had allowances for exactly that failure mode. If you’re hiring a General Contractor in South Miami, ask how they handle surprises. If they don’t want to talk about it, that’s your answer.
Permitting and Engineering
South Miami pulls permits through the city’s building department, and many structural changes require a Florida-licensed engineer’s stamped drawings. Opening a load-bearing wall, adding an opening, or changing a roofline all trigger that review. We handle the engineering, the permit, the inspection, and the sign-off. You get a written contract that says exactly what was approved and what it cost.
Trusted Brands We Service in South Miami
Our crews in South Miami install and service roofing from GAF and CertainTeed, with Owens Corning products available for specific applications. We stock common parts locally for South Miami homeowners, which means a roof repair on a low-slope CBS ranch doesn’t wait on a warehouse in another state. When we quote a roof replacement or a storm-driven repair in South Miami, the brand is named in the written contract, along with coverage terms. No substitutions you didn’t approve.
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AfterCommon General Contractor Problems We See in South Miami Homes
- Cloth-insulated wiring from the 1950s and 60s. It’s widespread in South Miami’s original ranch stock. Once a wall is open, South Florida code requires bringing exposed wiring to current standards, which is why an electrical allowance belongs in every contract.
- Original cast-iron drain lines under the slab. Homes in the Ludlam area especially. These lines corrode from the inside and fail without warning. Trenching the slab once for both plumbing and structural work saves thousands over cutting it twice.
- Undersized or notched load-bearing headers. Decades of DIY and poorly planned renovations have left some South Miami homes with framing that isn’t safe for a new opening. We see this on kitchen remodels where a wall gets opened for a pass-through.
- Missing hurricane retrofits. Many older CBS homes in South Miami lack roof-to-wall ties and impact-rated openings. When a permit is pulled for a remodel, the city often requires those upgrades before final inspection. We include them in the written price up front.
Pricing for General Contractor in South Miami, FL
No fuzzy numbers. These are the ranges we quote across South Miami, and they include what we expect to find when we open the walls:
| Project | Typical South Miami Range |
|---|---|
| Kitchen Remodel | $16,520 – $53,100 |
| Bathroom Remodel | $10,620 – $33,040 |
| Impact Window Installation | $9,440 – $29,500 |
| Roof Replacement | $9,440 – $23,600 |
| Home Addition | $53,100 – $153,400 |
What moves the number: the age of the wiring, the condition of the cast-iron, whether the roof ties are present, and whether the water table complicates any excavation. We don’t bury those variables. We write them into the contract as allowances, priced before demolition starts. Call (850) 780-8123 and we’ll give you a written estimate for your specific South Miami home. Free.
We Also Serve Cities Near South Miami
Our crews are out every day in Miami, Miami Beach, Doral, and Miami Lakes, handling the same kind of structural and remodel work we do in South Miami. Scheduling and dispatch run through our Miami office, but the crew that walks your door is the same Threshold-verified team, name and photo provided before arrival.
Serving South Miami, FL - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the South Miami area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs About General Contractor in South Miami
The three we see most are degraded cloth-insulated wiring, corroded cast-iron drain lines under the slab, and notched or undersized load-bearing headers. In South Miami specifically, we write allowances for all three into the original contract so the change order is a formality, not a dispute. Call (850) 780-8123 to get a written price that includes those allowances before we start.
South Miami requires permits and inspections for structural, electrical, plumbing, and roofing work, and hurricane retrofits often come attached to a remodel permit. That means our timeline includes inspection holds after rough-in. We schedule the trades around those dates. You get a written schedule as part of the contract. For an exact timeline on your project, call (850) 780-8123.
Because South Miami’s older CBS ranches have load-bearing walls that were often framed to minimum standards in the 1960s. South Florida code requires engineered approval for openings, beam replacements, and any change to the structure. We bring the engineer in during the planning phase, not after the wall is open. That’s part of the written price.
A full kitchen remodel in South Miami runs $16,520 to $53,100. The lower end assumes a smaller kitchen with no rewiring and no slab work. The upper end includes new electrical home runs, cast-iron replacement, hurricane retrofit requirements, and higher-end finishes. We write a line-item allowance for hidden conditions so the final number is agreed upon before it happens. Get your exact quote by calling (850) 780-8123.
Yes. That’s what a general contractor in South Miami should do. We coordinate the plumber and the structural crew under one permit and one scope of work. That means one slab cut, one inspection cycle, and one written price. If you’re working with a General Contractor who won’t do that, you’re paying for two cuts instead of one. Call (850) 780-8123 and we’ll scope it properly.
Written by Isaac Pruett, Owner at Mason Remodeling Co Miami, serving South Miami since 2004.
