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Fast, Reliable General Contractor Across Georgetown
Hiring a General Contractor in Georgetown usually means one of two things: you’re about to open walls in a 1970s ranch home off Williams Drive, or you’re renovating a Victorian near the courthouse square and the Historic and Architectural Review Commission is about to become part of your life. Both jobs are real, both are common here, and both demand a contractor who knows Georgetown’s building stock, its permits, and its inspectors. We’re Penhallow Remodeling Austin, led by Trevor Nash, and we serve Georgetown homeowners with kitchen remodels, bathroom remodels, whole-home remodels, room additions, and more. Every project gets a written price before work starts and a written 365-Day Done Right Promise behind it. Call (325) 225-5429 for a free estimate.
Why Penhallow Remodeling Austin Is Georgetown’s Preferred General Contractor Company
Georgetown homeowners tell us the same thing after their first job with us: the number on the proposal matched the number on the final invoice. That’s not an accident. It’s how Trevor Nash runs every job, and it’s built into the Kingswell Way that has governed our work since 2004. We write allowances into the contract for what we might find behind your drywall, because in Georgetown we usually find something.
Our crews work in Georgetown weekly. We know the difference between a 1980s tract home in Sun City and a pier-and-beam cottage in Old Town, and we plan the scope of work accordingly. Background-checked, uniformed technicians arrive in the window we gave you. A live person answers the phone 24/7, not a voicemail tree. When you call with a question mid-project, you reach a human who knows your job.
The 365-Day Done Right Promise is written into every contract. If something fails inside that year, we come back and fix it at no charge. That free return visit applies to repairs, to finishes, to workmanship. It’s the same guarantee whether the job is a $9,000 small bathroom or a $130,000 addition.
Styles & brands we work with
Residential General Contractor in Georgetown
Residential General Contractor work in Georgetown spans two very different worlds. West of I-35, you’ll find 2000s and 2010s limestone-and-brick tract builds where the framing is predictable and the big decisions are cabinet lines, countertops, and tile. East of Austin Avenue, you’re in Old Town, where homes from the 1890s through the 1930s sit on native limestone piers and any structural change can trigger a Historic and Architectural Review Commission review. A kitchen remodel in one neighborhood is a $14,000 to $45,000 project. In the other, the same square footage might require engineered shoring before a cabinet is ever ordered.
Planning Around Georgetown’s Housing Stock
What gets opened up in a Georgetown home depends on when it was built. In the 1960s and 1970s ranch homes concentrated around the established central neighborhoods, we routinely find aluminum wiring, undersized joists, and failed waterproofing at the shower pan. In 2000s tract homes, the bigger issue is often settling slab foundations and builder-grade plumbing fixtures that were never meant to last 25 years. Knowing the difference shapes the estimate before the first wall is opened.
Code Upgrades and Permits
Georgetown’s building code requires that a remodel bring the affected systems up to current standards. That means when we open a wall in a 1972 ranch and find ungrounded wiring, that wiring gets replaced, not patched over. We build an allowance line for exactly this into the contract. If the actual cost comes in under the allowance, you keep the difference. If it runs over, you approve the change order in writing before we spend a dollar. No surprises after demo day.
Hire a General Contractor in Georgetown
When you hire a General Contractor in Georgetown, you’re hiring someone to run the permit, coordinate the trades, schedule inspections, and hold the subcontractors to a written scope of work. The job might be a $9,000 small kitchen update or a $45,000 to $130,000 home addition, but the fundamentals are the same: a written contract, a defined arrival window, clean job site, and a written guarantee. We handle every one of those on paper before the first trade shows up.
What a Written Contract Should Include
A real Georgetown remodel contract should have a line-item scope, a draw schedule, an allowance section for unknowns behind the drywall, and a defined path for change orders. Ours also includes the 365-Day Done Right Promise, because a contractor who won’t guarantee the work in writing is telling you something about how they’ll handle the punch list. When you sign with Penhallow, you know exactly what you’re paying, when we arrive, and what happens if a repair fails.
Working With Georgetown’s Inspection Schedule
Georgetown inspections are scheduled by the city, and they’re not optional. We pull permits on every job that requires one, and we don’t skip the pre-drywall inspection to save a day on the schedule. That inspection is what catches a rough-in error before the drywall goes up, not after the tile is set and the mistake is sealed in. If a city inspector flags something, we fix it, have it re-inspected, and move on. The alternative is a punch list that never ends.
Trusted Brands We Service in Georgetown
We install materials from brands that back their own work alongside ours. For Georgetown paver patios, driveways, and walkways, we source from Unilock, Tremron, and Techo-Bloc, whose products stand up to Central Texas heat without fading or cracking the way budget pavers do. Cambria and Silestone countertops carry their own warranties, layered on top of our 365-Day promise. We stock common replacement parts for Georgetown turnarounds, so a cabinet hinge or drawer slide from a KraftMaid or Wellborn install doesn’t leave you waiting on a backorder. The products behind the guarantee matter, and we don’t put our name on materials we wouldn’t put in our own homes.
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AfterCommon General Contractor Problems We See in Georgetown Homes
- Expansive clay soil shifting foundations. Georgetown sits on clay that swells when wet and contracts in drought. We regularly see slab cracks in newer subdivisions and shifted limestone piers under Old Town homes, so we build foundation assessment into the scope before any structural work begins.
- Outdated wiring hidden behind 1960s and 1970s drywall. Opening a wall in an established Georgetown neighborhood often reveals aluminum wiring or overloaded circuits. We write an allowance line for electrical work into every remodel contract, so a code-required upgrade is not a surprise change order.
- Historic and Architectural Review Commission delays on Old Town projects. A remodel on a 1910s pier-and-beam home near the courthouse square can require commission approval before work starts. We build that review timeline into the schedule and the draw schedule, because treating it as a formality stalls the job and drains the budget.
- Failed waterproofing in shower surrounds and tub decks. Georgetown’s humidity swings and occasional flash floods expose shortcuts in shower pan liners and cement board seams. When we open a bathroom, we inspect the substrate, the moisture-resistant layer behind the tile, before new tile is set.
Pricing for General Contractor in Georgetown, TX
What a Georgetown remodel costs depends on what’s behind the walls, not just what’s in front of them. Here are the ranges we quote most often for Georgetown work:
| Project | Typical Georgetown Range |
|---|---|
| Home Addition | $45,000 – $130,000 |
| Garage Conversion | $30,000 – $80,000 |
| Kitchen Remodel | $14,000 – $45,000 |
| Bathroom Remodel | $9,000 – $28,000 |
| Small Kitchen Remodel | $9,000 – $20,000 |
| Walk-In Shower Installation | $4,500 – $12,000 |
These are not estimate ranges. They are the actual number you’ll hold in your hand after the inspection and before any work starts. What drives the price up? Structural shoring on a pier-and-beam home, code-required electrical upgrades, custom cabinet lines, and Cambria or Silestone quartz versus laminate. What drives it down? A galley kitchen that doesn’t move walls, stock Wellborn cabinets, and a shower surround that doesn’t require moving the drain. Call (325) 225-5429 for a free estimate, and you’ll get a written number you can compare line by line.
We Also Serve Cities Near Georgetown
Penhallow Remodeling Austin is a General Contractor in Georgetown and we also serve Cedar Park, Taylor, Austin, and Elgin. Our crews work throughout Williamson County and into Travis County, with dispatch and scheduling coordinated from our Austin office. Wherever you are in the Georgetown area, the same written price guarantee and 365-Day Done Right Promise apply.
Serving Georgetown, TX - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Georgetown 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 Georgetown
We build the HARC review timeline into the scope of work before we write the contract. That means identifying early whether your home sits in the historic district, what materials and exterior changes require commission approval, and how many weeks that review will add to the schedule. The commission review is not a formality, and treating it like one gets a Georgetown project stalled on day one. Call (325) 225-5429 and we’ll walk you through what applies to your specific address.
Expect the unexpected, but not an unapproved bill. In a 1970s Georgetown ranch, opening walls typically reveals aluminum wiring, undersized framing, and shower pans that failed years ago. We write an allowance line into the contract for exactly these conditions. If the issue falls within the allowance, nothing changes. If it runs over, you approve a written change order before we proceed.
Yes. A pre-drywall inspection happens before the drywall goes up, while the wiring, plumbing, and framing are still visible. That’s the window where a code violation gets caught and corrected. If a contractor skips that inspection, the violation gets sealed in the wall, and you discover it during the final inspection sign-off when fixing it means tearing out finished work. We pull permits and schedule every inspection on every Georgetown job that requires one.
In the new subdivisions west of I-35, the biggest constraint is production pace and the occasional clay-soil slab settlement. In Old Town, the constraint is the building itself: 1890s to 1920s pier-and-beam foundations, limestone piers that shift with the clay, and a Historic and Architectural Review Commission that governs what you can change. We’re one of the few Georgetown-area contractors who works both sides of that divide, because the job is not the same job across the street.
We write an allowance line into the contract for unknowns behind the drywall, and we price the allowance based on what we know about 1980s Georgetown tract construction: builder-grade electrical, questionable shower surrounds, and framing that was fine in 1985 but doesn’t meet today’s code. When we open the wall and find something, you see the actual cost against the allowance. If it’s within the allowance, the contract doesn’t move. If it’s over, you sign a written change order before we spend a dollar. The price you see on day one is the price you pay, unless you authorize otherwise in writing.
Written by Trevor Nash, Owner at Penhallow Remodeling Austin, serving Georgetown and the surrounding Central Texas area.
