A ready project has more than a start date. The existing conditions are understood, the included work is visible, important selections are made, responsibilities are assigned, and the customer and delivery team share the same definition of completion.
Use the checklist as a conversation guide. The appropriate detail depends on the property, the work, the approvals required, and whether the home remains occupied.
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Prepare the work from opening conditions to handoff.
A useful checklist follows the whole project: existing conditions, concealed work, selections, coordination, finishing, review, and documentation.
From first conversation to final handoff
- 01
Define the result and existing conditions
Record what should improve, what is included, known problems, measurements, photos, access, occupancy, and constraints.
- 02
Confirm design, approvals, and selections
Resolve drawings, permits, engineering, regulated trades, materials, products, lead times, and client decision dates.
- 03
Prepare the delivery plan
Confirm sequence, protection, temporary arrangements, communication, payments, changes, inspections, cleanup, and handoff evidence.
What the scope may include
Before pricing
- Project goals and priority outcomes
- Included rooms, work, and known exclusions
- Existing-condition photos and approximate dimensions
- Budget context, timing, access, and occupancy constraints
Before construction
- Approved scope, drawings, permits, and specialist requirements
- Confirmed selections, allowances, procurement, and delivery dates
- Protection, access, working hours, utilities, pets, and temporary arrangements
- Named communication, change, inspection, deficiency, and handoff process
Before you begin
When is a renovation ready to schedule?
It is ready when the scope, required approvals, critical selections, major lead times, access, responsibilities, and price basis are sufficiently resolved for the work to proceed without preventable interruption.
What if concealed conditions are discovered?
The condition should be documented, the effect on scope, price, and schedule explained, and authorization recorded before related additional work proceeds.
What should final handoff include?
The completed scope should be reviewed together, deficiencies and outstanding responsibilities recorded, relevant documents transferred, and the next responsibility made clear.