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It depends entirely on whether you go stock or custom. If you are happy with something standard, like white shaker cabinetry, we can often have every size and every piece to you the next day. Stock lines sit ready and waiting. The timeline only stretches when your taste does.
Ask for a specific color like burgundy, or a European style, or anything outside the standard catalog, and you are looking at roughly six to eight weeks before it arrives. Neither choice is wrong. They are just different timelines, and knowing which one you are on from day one changes how the whole project is scheduled. At Guy A Remodeling, we tell you exactly where your selections fall before we ever pick up a hammer, so the schedule we hand you is real.
Stock lines exist for a reason. They let a project move fast without waiting on a factory run. If speed matters most to you, a standard style is your friend. If a particular look matters more, we simply build the extra weeks into the plan from day one.
Planning a kitchen remodel? Call (407) 460-8588 or reach out to our team to get started.
Because nobody wants to live in a torn up house waiting on a delivery truck. Our rule is simple. We do not start work until we have everything, or at least until everything is ordered and confirmed. Things get delayed, and if we demo your kitchen and then stall for weeks waiting on a part, you are the one living in the mess.
This is not only about cabinets. Doorknobs, shower glass, light fixtures, and especially appliances all have their own timelines. We recently placed an appliance order with one of the big box stores, a large forty eight inch refrigerator, and it took over two months to arrive. The actual labor to redo a kitchen remodel, including flooring, cabinetry, drywall, electrical, and paint, might only be two and a half to three weeks. If a fridge takes two months, you do not want us starting early and dragging that out around you.
Living through a remodel is hard enough without an open, half finished room sitting for a month. Getting in and getting out is the goal for everyone. The way we protect that is simple. Nothing starts until the materials are ordered and the delivery dates are locked down.
Yes, when the job is sequenced right, but we plan the ordering so waiting never stalls the crew. We order all the materials on day one to lock in pricing and secure the stock, then have the supplier hold pieces and ship them on the dates we actually need them. That way your specific tile or floor cannot sell out from under the project two months in.
The work still moves in a set order. Demolition first, then framing, then rough electrical and plumbing, then drywall, then tile and paint, and finally the fixtures and finishes go in. Long lead items like custom cabinets or a special counter are timed to land before the stage that needs them. A bathroom remodel runs on the same logic, just compressed. The goal is a job site that is always doing something, never sitting idle while a box is in transit.
Ordering early does more than keep the crew busy. It often earns a better price, and it lets the supplier set your exact product aside so it cannot sell out mid project. You do not want to discover, two months in, that the tile you chose is gone.
Lead times rarely change the price, but they absolutely shape the plan, and they are the main reason we push to lock selections early. When you order everything up front, you often earn a better discount and you protect yourself from stock running out. You also get a firm delivery picture instead of a guess.
The trap is deciding late. A homeowner who falls in love with a custom color halfway through can add six to eight weeks to the calendar, and that ripple touches every stage after it. So we front load the decisions. We would rather spend more time choosing before demo than watch a finished, gutted kitchen sit waiting on one backordered piece. A remodel that is planned to the delivery date is a remodel that finishes when we said it would.
Late decisions are the enemy of a clean timeline. The more you settle before demo, the fewer surprises land later in the job. We push hard on the choices up front for exactly that reason, so the back half of your remodel runs without a hitch.
Want a kitchen remodel with a schedule you can actually count on? Call (407) 460-8588 or reach out to our team and we will map the timeline to your selections.