General Remodeling in Georgetown, TX

Georgetown is the town where the permit conversation matters most, because a large part of what makes it beautiful is legally protected. If your house sits in the Downtown or Old Town overlay, exterior work needs a Certificate of Appropriateness before a building permit will issue — and that is a design review, not a formality.

General Remodeling on Georgetown houses

The projects that do not fit one room: opening up a floor plan, reworking a tired layout, or bringing a whole house forward at once. These need sequencing more than anything — the right order keeps trades from undoing each other's work.

Two very different worlds. The Old Town and downtown squares hold some of the best-preserved Victorian and early-1900s housing in Central Texas, much of it inside a historic overlay. Then there is Sun City and the newer master-planned areas to the west, which are almost entirely post-1995 single-storey slab construction built for accessibility.

What catches people out here

Anything visible from the street in the Old Town overlay — windows, siding, porches, roof material, even paint in some cases — goes through a Certificate of Appropriateness with the Historic Preservation Officer or HARC before the building permit issues. We plan for that review rather than fighting it.
Sun City houses are built single-storey with wide doorways and low thresholds. Accessible bathroom work here is genuinely common, and there is an established way to do it that keeps resale value.
Original wood windows in Old Town are often repairable and, in the overlay, replacement may not be approved anyway. Restoration is frequently the faster route as well as the cheaper one.

Permits in Georgetown

Applications go through the MyGovernmentOnline portal. The part that catches homeowners is the historic overlay: a Certificate of Appropriateness is reviewed against the Downtown and Old Town Design Guidelines by the Historic Preservation Officer or the Historic and Architectural Review Commission, and it comes before the building permit, not after. We handle the application and inspections through City of Georgetown Development Services as part of the job.

What's included

Everything in a whole-home remodel

Structural changes

Wall removals with engineered beams, headers and proper load paths, permitted and inspected.

Whole-floor flooring

Continuous flooring across rooms so thresholds disappear and the plan reads as one space.

Trim, doors and joinery

Consistent trim, doors and hardware throughout, which is what makes a phased remodel look like one job.

Systems updates

Panel upgrades, rewiring, repiping and HVAC changes taken care of while the walls are already open.

Paint and make-good

Full repaint and the patching that ties new work into old surfaces invisibly.

Questions

General Remodeling in Georgetown — your questions

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Applications go through the MyGovernmentOnline portal. The part that catches homeowners is the historic overlay: a Certificate of Appropriateness is reviewed against the Downtown and Old Town Design Guidelines by the Historic Preservation Officer or the Historic and Architectural Review Commission, and it comes before the building permit, not after. We pull and manage it as part of the job through City of Georgetown Development Services, so you are not the one learning MyGovernmentOnline.

Georgetown is the one with the historic overlay for us. We are based in Taylor and Georgetown is inside our core service area, so a site visit is usually within a few days of you calling — not a fortnight.

Often yes, if we can phase it and seal off the work zone. We will be straight with you about the weeks when it is genuinely unpleasant — usually structural work and floor sanding — so you can plan around them.

We check rather than assume, and in most Central Texas two-storey plans the wall between kitchen and family room is carrying load. Removing it needs a beam sized for the span and a permit.

General Remodeling in Georgetown