Start with conditions, not a product
A workable kitchen design starts with what the room already has to work with: where the plumbing and circuits run, which walls carry load, and where the windows and doors already sit.
Build a complete scope
- What's already going on, and why
- How the rest of the house gets protected during work
- Materials suited to a house this age, and how they get installed
- Permits, testing, hauling debris, and putting the room back together
- What's excluded, what's under warranty, and how changes get priced
Dayton context
Dayton's location at the meeting point of the Great Miami, Mad, and Stillwater rivers made it vulnerable to the March 1913 flood that reshaped the city and led to the Miami Conservancy District's flood-control system in 1915 — one more reason concealed conditions in an older Dayton house deserve a real look before finishes go in.