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Crosscut Design-BuildSalisbury, MD · since 2007 (301) 555-0142
Kitchens, baths and whole houses · Salisbury and the Lower Shore

Tell us about the rooms. We turn up already knowing the job.

Nobody can price a kitchen off a web form, and we are not going to try. What this form does is hand us the rooms, the walls, the year the house went up and when you want to start — so the first visit starts where a first visit usually ends. If what you want is a fixed number on paper before you commit to anything, the measured study is priced right here.

MHIC licensed and insured One firm, drawings to punch list The study fee comes off the build
Two ways in — one prices, one books a visit
A written scope firstLine by line, with allowances you can actually go and shop.
One firm end to endDesign, permits, trades and the punch list on one contract.
You live in itDust walls, floor protection and the site swept every evening.
Change orders in writingPriced and signed before anybody picks a tool back up.
What we do

Two ways to start, and the form tells you which is which

There are exactly two things on this account, and the tag on each card comes from the account’s own settings rather than from this page — so it cannot claim a price for something we would come out and look at.

Priced on this page

Measured feasibility study — priced on this page

A fixed visit and a fixed document, which is why it is the one thing here we can put a number on before we have seen the house. You get:

  • A measured site visit and an as-built sketch of what is there now
  • A written scope with an allowance schedule against it
  • A fixed price for the build, usually inside two weeks of the visit
  • The fee credited in full against the build if you go ahead with us
We come and look

Kitchen, bath and whole-house — we come and scope it

The work itself. Eight questions, none of which touch a price, because the number that matters comes out of a scope rather than out of a form. What they do is tell us what to bring:

  • Kitchens, from a re-face to taking the wall out
  • Bathrooms, including a tub-to-shower conversion on an old cast-iron waste line
  • Basements and attics finished, with the egress and the headroom checked first
  • Additions and second floors, where an engineer is in the room early
The brief

What the form hands us before anybody drives out

A contact form gives a remodeler a name and a sentence. This one gives us the scope, the year, the structure and the calendar — which is the difference between a first visit spent asking and a first visit spent answering.

  • Which rooms, and how manyWhich trades need to be on the visit, and whether this is one room or a floor.
  • Whether water or a wall is movingThe single biggest one. It decides the permit, and whether a plumber and a framer both come.
  • Roughly what year the house went upPre-1978 means a lead-safe conversation; pre-1940 usually means balloon framing and knob-and-tube.
  • Whether anybody has drawn anythingDrawings mean we read them before we come and the visit is about how it gets built.
  • When you want to startWhich slot we are actually talking about. “Still deciding” is a real answer and we get it all the time.
  • Whether you are living in itWhere the dust wall goes, whether you need a temporary sink, and what time the crew can start.
  • The access and the parkingWhere the truck and the dumpster go. Nobody asks until the first morning, and then it is a problem.
  • A photo, if you have oneOptional, and it changes nothing about the price — nothing on that service does. It tells us what to bring.
How we price

One number online, and it is honest about what it covers

A remodel gets a price after somebody has been in the house and opened something up. What can be priced from a form is the piece of work that produces that price — a measured visit and a written scope — so that is the one thing this form quotes.

Tell us about the rooms

How many, which of them are wet, whether a wall or a ceiling line is moving, how old the house is, what is already drawn and when you want a number. The same questions we ask on the phone, answered in a minute.

See the study’s range

This band is for the study, not the build: midpoint plus or minus 8%. The $395 visit is inside it rather than added later, studies under our $700 minimum quote at the minimum, and a study big enough to clear our $3,000 ceiling gets a look rather than a number.

We come and scope the build

The remodel itself never gets a number on this page — it gets a visit, usually inside a week, and a written scope and price afterwards. Travel is priced from your ZIP. Nothing here costs more in one month than another.

Service area

Based in Salisbury. We say what the trip costs before we make it.

Your ZIP code sets the travel line on the study. No surprises on the invoice, and no free hour-long drives built into everybody else’s price.

  • Local: Salisbury and the Lower ShoreZIPs 218xx
    No travel fee
  • Outer ring: the mid Shore and Sussex CountyZIPs 216xx and 199xx
    +$85
  • Everywhere else we travelAny other ZIP we can reach
    +$145 and +5%
Notes for anyone evaluating the demo
  • What this account is for. It is the demo where the trade itself is routed. A remodel whose dominant cost driver is behind the plaster cannot be priced off a form without lying about it, so the fixture prices a measured feasibility study — a fixed visit and a fixed document — and sends the remodel to a site visit. Everything below is that split, exercised. There is deliberately no figure anywhere on this page for a kitchen, a bathroom or an addition, not even a ballpark: this account cannot produce one, and neither can any form.
  • Priced path. Pick Measured feasibility study — priced on this page, then: 1 room, One of them is a kitchen or bathroom, nothing structural, built After 1978, Nothing drawn yet, a number wanted Inside three weeks. Use ZIP 21801. The live engine returns $894 – $1,049 with the disclaimer, and the lead lands in the demo account’s inbox. The $395 visit plus one room at $275 makes $670; the three percentage answers pool to +45% and apply once, to all of it.
  • The one answer that reads like a discount and is not. Repeat the priced path with Measured drawings or a designer’s plan instead of Nothing: $783 – $919. Having drawings is the zero option and “nothing drawn” carries the points — authored ascending from zero rather than as a discount, because a negative percentage here would be money coming off a fee nobody has charged yet.
  • Dollars, not a percentage. Repeat the priced path answering Yes to the wall, ceiling line or structural opening question: $1,361 – $1,597. That answer is a flat $350, not a percentage, because a framing survey and an engineer’s hour cost the same whether we measured one room or six.
  • A bigger study, still priced. 4 rooms, Two or more wet, nothing structural, Before 1940, nothing drawn, no hurry, ZIP 21801: $2,269 – $2,664. That is an as-built set and a scoped allowance schedule on an old house, and it is still a study rather than a remodel.
  • Minimum floor. 1 room, none of them wet, nothing structural, After 1978, drawings already exist, Next month or later, ZIP 21801: the job works out at $670, under the $700 minimum, and quotes at $700 – $756. Note the low end of the band is the floor itself, not 8% below it.
  • Over the ceiling. 6 rooms, Two or more wet, Yes to the structural question, Before 1940, nothing drawn, wanted This week, ZIP 21801. That clears the service’s $3,000 ceiling, so the widget shows no price at all and routes to “we’ll take a proper look” — on the study, which is the point: past a certain size even the paperwork needs a conversation first. The lead is captured either way.
  • Travel zone. Repeat the priced path with ZIP 21601 (Easton) for the outer-ring fee: $972 – $1,141. Any ZIP outside the listed prefixes, whether 22201 (Arlington, VA) or 75001 (Texas), falls to the catch-all zone: $1,072 – $1,258, the percentage first and then the flat fee.
  • Out of area. Use ZIP 99901. The visitor gets a polite decline instead of a price, and the lead is still captured.
  • Routing mode — and on this account it is the trade. Pick Kitchen, bath and whole-house — we come and scope it. That service is in site-visit mode, so it never shows a price however the eight questions are answered; the visitor sees “we like to see it first” and the lead lands in the inbox with every answer attached. Not one of its eight questions carries a pricing rule, deliberately: the rule loop does not know about modes and would happily compute a number the next line throws away.
  • The same question on both services. “Roughly what year was the house built?” is asked on the study, where it moves the fee, and on the site visit, where it moves nothing and decides who we send. That is the estate’s habit rather than a duplication bug, and both help texts say so.
  • The photo question carries no rule. Photos never move the price — the engine skips them entirely. Nothing is uploaded either: on a demo the visitor can tick “I have photos I can send” and the lead records “Has photos to send, not uploaded”, which is the owner’s cue to ask for pictures on the call. Attaching the image itself is on the roadmap.
  • No season, deliberately. Nothing on this account carries a seasonal adjustment. Remodeling urgency is a settlement date, a lease running out or a baby due in March — not a month on a calendar — so it is priced by the “when do you want a number in your hand” question, where the visitor can see it and change it. Every figure above is the same figure in any month.
  • The missed-call text-back. The CallMitt page replays which of five messages a missed caller would get and why, against this business’s own 8am to 5pm window. Straight about where it stands: nothing on this platform delivers a text message yet, because there is no SMS gateway on our side, so the reply is written, compliance-checked and held in the outbox where the owner can read it. The rules, the hours, the quiet hours and the opt-out handling are built and running.
  • The widget’s aubergine matches this site because the account’s key carries a theme colour; the same script on an agency’s client site would carry the agency’s colour.