Services
What we build,
and what it costs.
Six lines of work, each with a real range and a real timeline. Nobody in this trade publishes numbers. We think that's the problem.
New Custom Homes
Ground-up houses on your lot, built design-build or from your architect's drawings.
- Typical range
- Typically $525k – $1.4M
- Timeline
- 10 – 16 months
When you need it
You own — or are about to buy — a lot, and you want a house that answers to that specific site rather than a plan book. Also the right call when a property has real constraints: slope, creek buffers, septic, or a well.
What's included
- Site evaluation, soils and survey coordination
- Design-build, or bidding and building from your architect's set
- Full permitting through Marion, Polk or Yamhill County
- Foundation, framing, envelope, mechanical, finish — one contract
- Weekly on-site walkthrough with the superintendent
- Two-year workmanship warranty, in writing
Whole-Home Remodels
Taking a house down to studs and putting back something that works now.
- Typical range
- Typically $180k – $600k
- Timeline
- 5 – 9 months
When you need it
The house has good bones and a bad plan. Common in Salem's pre-war neighbourhoods, where the layout was right for 1926 and hasn't been right since.
What's included
- Structural assessment before you commit to a scope
- Seismic retrofit, shear panels and foundation repair as needed
- Full rewire, repipe, and HVAC replacement
- Wall removals with engineered beams — no dropped headers
- Asbestos and lead testing on pre-1980 homes, handled by licensed abatement
- Dust containment and a job-site protocol for occupied homes
Additions & Second Storeys
More house, added so carefully you can't tell where the old one stopped.
- Typical range
- Typically $95k – $340k
- Timeline
- 3 – 7 months
When you need it
You like your neighbourhood, your schools and your lot, and moving costs more than building. Also for primary suites, in-law units and home offices that need real separation.
What's included
- Roofline and siding matching — pitch, exposure, profile
- Foundation extension or new footings, engineered to the existing
- Second-storey framing with temporary shoring and weather protection
- Setback, lot coverage and height review before design begins
- HVAC load recalculation so the new space is actually comfortable
- Staged so you can stay in the house wherever it's safe to
Kitchens & Baths
The two rooms where construction quality shows up fastest — and fails loudest.
- Typical range
- Typically $45k – $165k
- Timeline
- 8 – 16 weeks
When you need it
The room has hit the end of its life, or a remodel elsewhere in the house has made it the obvious weak link. Also when a previous contractor's work has started to leak.
What's included
- Cabinet layout and appliance clearances checked before ordering
- Waterproofing to industry standard — sheet membrane, not paint-on shortcuts
- Ventilation sized and ducted to the exterior, always
- Electrical brought current: dedicated circuits, GFCI, code lighting
- Tile setting by our own crew, not a rotating sub
- One fixed price, one schedule, one person answering the phone
Light-Commercial Tenant Improvements
Office, clinic and retail fit-outs in occupied buildings, on a lease clock.
- Typical range
- Typically $85k – $500k
- Timeline
- 8 – 20 weeks
When you need it
You've signed a lease with a date on it. TI work lives and dies on scheduling, and the general contractor is the only one who can protect that date.
What's included
- Phased scheduling around neighbouring tenants and building hours
- ADA path-of-travel, restroom and door hardware compliance
- Fire alarm, sprinkler modification and life-safety coordination
- Rolling inspections so the schedule doesn't stack up at the end
- Landlord and property-manager communication handled by us
- Certificate of occupancy tracked to the lease commencement date
Preconstruction & Design-Build
Real numbers before you spend real money — and one team from sketch to keys.
- Typical range
- $3,500 – $9,000, credited to the build
- Timeline
- 4 – 10 weeks
When you need it
Before you buy the lot, before you hire the architect, or any time you've been handed a number that feels invented. Most of our clients start here.
What's included
- Feasibility review: zoning, setbacks, utilities, soils
- Line-item budget from actual sub pricing, not square-foot averages
- Value engineering while it's still cheap — on paper
- Schedule with permit lead times built in, not assumed away
- Architect and engineer coordination, or full in-house design-build
- The fee comes off your contract if you build with us
The six things
we never negotiate.
These aren't upgrades or premium tiers. They're in every Cedar & Stone contract, on a $52,000 bathroom and a $1.2M house alike.
- 01
A fixed price, not an estimate
Our proposals are line-item and binding. Allowances are listed with a dollar figure and what it actually buys — tile at $9/sf, not 'tile allowance'. If we missed something in our own scope, that is our cost, not yours.
- 02
Change orders priced before work
Nothing gets built off a hallway conversation. Changes are written up with a price and a schedule impact, and you sign before a tool moves. No end-of-job invoice surprises.
- 03
One superintendent, start to finish
The same person runs your job from excavation to punch list. You get their cell number on day one. We do not rotate crews between jobs to chase whichever site is loudest.
- 04
A two-year written warranty
Workmanship covered for twenty-four months — double Oregon's one-year standard. We schedule an eleven-month walkthrough to catch settling cracks and door swing before the clock runs out.
- 05
Licensed, bonded, fully insured
CCB #178432, general liability and workers' comp on every person who sets foot on your property, subs included. Certificates go in your file before mobilisation, not after you ask.
- 06
Friday photos, weekly walks
A photo set every Friday and a standing weekly walkthrough with the superintendent. If you are out of state, the walk happens on video and nothing waits a week for a decision.
What we're not.
- We're not the cheapest bid.
We carry real insurance, pay our crews properly, and price contingency into the contract instead of discovering it in month four. That lands us mid-to-upper on most bid sheets.
- We don't do handyman work.
Under about $25,000 we're the wrong tool — you'll pay for overhead you don't need. Call us anyway and we'll point you at someone in Salem who does it well.
- We don't take every job.
We run four to six projects at a time. If the calendar is full or the fit is wrong, we'll say so at the site visit rather than bid it and stretch you thin.
CCB #178432 · Licensed, bonded and insured in Oregon since 2006