The work mostremodellers subcontractout. We do it.
Load-bearing removal, engineered beams, temporary shoring, underpinning and new foundations under houses that are still standing — across Denver and the Front Range.
Every open-plan kitchen is a structural project in disguise.
Almost every remodel worth doing eventually asks the same question: can this wall come out? The honest answer is an engineering one, and it arrives with a beam schedule attached.
Removing a load-bearing wall means an engineered beam sized for the calculated load, posts landing on something capable of carrying them, a continuous load path down through the floors to a footing that can take it, and temporary shoring holding the house up while all of that is installed. On a house older than about thirty years it also means discovering what somebody already did to that framing decades ago.
Most remodelling companies subcontract this. That is not dishonest, but it changes what happens when something is found: the people who priced it, engineered it and build it are three companies who did not write each other’s scope, and you become the messenger. We do it ourselves.
Englewood · underpinned
Six kinds of structural work, all invisible when finished.
Load-bearing removal
The wall you want gone, replaced by a beam and posts with a load path that actually reaches the ground.
Engineered beams
Steel or LVL sized for a calculated load, not chosen from experience. The engineer’s stamp is the point.
Temporary shoring
What holds your house up between the wall coming out and the beam going in. Planned, not improvised.
Underpinning
Extending an existing foundation downward in alternating sections so the house is never unsupported across a span.
New foundations
Putting new structure underneath a house that is staying where it is — as on the Arvada studs-up rebuild.
Foundation openings
Cutting egress or door openings through concrete foundation walls, headered and drained properly.
Ask a prospective contractor what happens if the wall turns out to be load-bearing. “We would bring someone in to look” tells you the structural work is a subcontracted unknown inside your project. “It is probably fine” is the answer to walk away from.
Nobody writes a Google review about a beam.
Structural work is the part of a remodel clients never see and never mention. They review the kitchen. So instead of borrowing a review that is really about something else, here is the work itself: steel shoring under an Arvada house with its walls removed, and a foundation underpinned in sequence in Englewood so an addition could go to basement level against it.
Both are photographed at the stage where it matters. That is a more useful thing to judge us on than a quote about how tidy the site was.
Six steps, and the first one is a phone call.
Discovery call
A short call to understand the project, the property and whether we are the right fit.
Job walk
We look at what is actually standing — structure, services, access.
Design
Drawings worked through with you, so you approve a plan rather than imagine one.
Engineering & permitting
Structural engineering and the permit set, handled by us.
Construction
One project manager, and a job site kept clean because you usually still live here.
Walkthrough
We finish the list you write, not the one we think is left.
Want to know if that wall can come out?
It has a definite answer. We will look at what is above it and what is under it, and tell you what removing it actually takes.
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