Sherwood General Contractor

What a general contractor should take off your plate in Sherwood

A remodel is dozens of small decisions and handoffs: drawings, engineering, permits, orders, deliveries, inspections, and a sequence of trades who each depend on the one before. A general contractor exists to own all of that so you do not have to. JDI Construction is a family-owned design-build general contractor based in Vancouver, WA, operating since 2007. Design-build means we do the design as well as the construction, which removes the most failure-prone handoff of all, the one between whoever drew the plans and whoever has to build them. For a Sherwood homeowner, it also means one company dealing with the city, the county and the schedule on your behalf.

You will work with a designer and a project manager from the same team. The estimate is built from the actual design, and the people responsible for it are the people on your job.

How to judge a contractor

Portfolios all look good. These four things tell you more about how a project will go:

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   AccountabilityIf something is wrong, you make one call, and the company that answers is responsible for fixing it.
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   SchedulingA written sequence with dates, built around material lead times and inspections, and updated when anything shifts.
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   Quality controlWork checked at each stage by our team, before the next layer covers it.
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   CommunicationA named project manager and a client portal showing what happened this week and what is next.

Sort these out before you sign

First, decide how you want the project delivered. You can hire a designer, then take finished drawings to several builders for bids, and find out the price at the end. Or you can hire a design-build firm and have cost checked against the design at every step. We work the second way because it avoids designing a project twice. Second, fix a budget range early and say it out loud. A designer who knows the number can make good trade-offs, and one who does not will guess. Third, verify whoever you hire. In Oregon that means an active Construction Contractors Board license, a bond and insurance, all of which can be looked up. Ours is CCB #176101. Read the estimate for what is excluded as closely as what is included, and ask how changes are priced once work is under way.

What Sherwood homeowners hire a general contractor for

Sherwood is a young city in housing terms. It grew from roughly 3,000 residents in 1990 to more than 20,000 by 2020, and the homes built for that growth are now at the age where original kitchens, bathrooms, flooring and mechanical equipment are due for replacement. So the calls we expect from Sherwood are for kitchen and bathroom remodels, whole-floor or whole-house updates, and additions where a family wants more room without leaving the neighborhood. A smaller group of homes in and around Old Town, the original 1889 townsite, are far older and bring structural and systems questions that a newer house does not. Whatever the age of the house, the paperwork is the same and it is split between agencies. The City of Sherwood Building Department handles plan review and inspections for building, plumbing and mechanical work, with applications filed through the State of Oregon's ePermitting system. Electrical permits and inspections inside the city are handled by Washington County. Coordinating two offices and their inspection schedules is routine work for a general contractor, and it is part of what we do for you.

A sample of finished JDI projects

These projects are in Lake Oswego, Beaverton and Portland. We are showing them as examples of finished JDI work, not as Sherwood addresses:

Lake Oswego · Nearby

Sage Shaker Kitchen Refresh

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Beaverton · Nearby

Forest Green Kitchen & Bath Remodel

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Portland · Nearby

Mid-Century Modern Kitchen Remodel

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Portland · Nearby

Stunning Whole House Remodel

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What does it cost to hire a general contractor in Sherwood?

You are paying for the project, and the contractor's management is one part of that figure. A hall bathroom, a kitchen and a full-house renovation are priced on entirely different scales, so a single number would mislead you. What you should expect from any contractor is an estimate that itemizes labor, materials, permits and allowances clearly enough that you can see where the money goes. Ours is written after an in-home visit and a design, and it is the document we manage the job against. If you would like to spread the cost, financing is available through Lend Home Improvement.

How long does a project take?

Scope decides it. One room is a matter of weeks on site, while an addition or whole-house remodel runs for months, and design, ordering and permit review all come before that. The contractor's job is to make the schedule realistic and then protect it: materials ordered before demolition, trades booked in the right order, inspections requested on time. Houses also hold surprises once they are opened up, at any age, and a good schedule has room to deal with one without unraveling.

Why Sherwood homeowners hire JDI

We are one accountable team for design, permits, construction and follow-up, licensed in Oregon and Washington, bonded and insured, with a 5-year workmanship warranty on what we build. We would also like you to hear this from us before you look at a map: JDI is based in Vancouver, WA, and Sherwood is on the southwest side of the Portland metro, a substantial trip from our office. We work there regardless, and we manage the distance with planning. Visits are scheduled, not improvised, and the client portal keeps you current between them.

JDI Construction. "Built by family. Trusted by neighbors." A family-owned design-build general contractor since 2007, based in Vancouver, WA, and working in Sherwood, Tualatin and Tigard.