From 1950s lakeside cabins to modern lakefront residences, Harrison homes ask different things of a whole-home renovation. Phased planning, in-house Red Seal trades, and one project manager holding the whole thing together from site visit through the 12-month walk-back.
12 mo
Workmanship Commitment
Every trade we put on the home, covered for a full year.
Red Seal
In-house electrical & plumbing
Both trades on the Huntley payroll, not subcontracted.
3–12 mo
Typical project window
Cosmetic refresh through full down-to-studs.
One PM
Running every trade
One schedule, one phone number, one accountable team.
Quick Answer
Whole-home renovations in Harrison Hot Springs run $150K to $250K for a cosmetic refresh, $250K to $400K for a significant refresh with kitchen and two bathroom rebuilds, and $400K to $650K+ for down-to-studs projects and cabin conversions. One project manager coordinates every trade on one schedule. Phased planning keeps you in the home where possible. Typical timeline: 3 to 12 months depending on scope. Line-item quotes, no blanket allowances.
Whole-home in Harrison Hot Springs
Harrison Hot Springs runs from 1950s lakeside cabins to current full-time lakefront homes, and a whole-home renovation reads that history right away. The Village core holds year-round residences and modernized cabins. Older cabin properties carry decades of mixed wiring and plumbing. Modern lakefront builds follow conventional patterns. And properties outside the Village sit in FVRD Electoral Area C with its own permit pathway. The baseline scope changes meaningfully by where the home sits and which jurisdiction it falls under.
On older cabin properties, a serious whole-home renovation is a mechanical and envelope upgrade as much as a finish project: a rewire off mixed-era and knob-and-tube wiring, a repipe off galvanized lines, an electrical service upgrade, and a heating replacement, often as part of a seasonal-to-year-round conversion. We build these realities into the scope at the site visit rather than discovering them mid-build.
On modern lakefront residences, the bones are good and the work is usually a significant refresh: a kitchen rebuild, bathroom reworks, flooring, and a layout reconfiguration to open the living space toward the lake, run as one coordinated project rather than a down-to-studs strip.
Whole-home is where the in-house trades structure earns its keep. Every room has its own electrical, plumbing, and finish requirements, and every phase affects the next. Our framers, Red Seal electricians, and Red Seal plumbers work for the same company, so the rough-in coordination happens on site, not on a three-way phone call. One project manager runs the whole thing on one schedule.
The Harrison whole-home context
Harrison is not one housing market. A whole-home renovation on an older lakeside cabin is a different project from a modern lakefront residence, and the permit pathway depends on whether the property sits in the Village or in FVRD Electoral Area C. We plan each one for the house in front of us.
Year-round residences and modernized cabins inside the Village of Harrison Hot Springs, from 1950s lakeside cabins to current full-time homes. Permits run through the Village of Harrison office. Whole-home scope here ranges from a significant refresh on a newer home to a full rebuild on an older cabin property being held as a year-round residence. Village services keep the plumbing picture more straightforward than properties on wells and septic.
Many Harrison cabins date back decades and have passed through multiple owners, multiple eras of wiring, and mixed plumbing. Knob-and-tube, aluminum branch circuits, galvanized supply lines, undersized electrical services, and propane heating are common starting points. A cabin whole-home renovation combines a finish rebuild with significant mechanical and envelope scope, often including a seasonal-to-year-round conversion. We plan for all of it at the site visit.
Properties built from the 2000s onward along the lake corridor have newer mechanical systems and follow more conventional renovation patterns. Whole-home work here is usually a significant refresh: kitchen rebuild, bathroom reworks, flooring, and layout reconfiguration to open toward the lake, run as one coordinated project rather than a down-to-studs strip.
Properties outside the Village of Harrison Hot Springs sit inside Fraser Valley Regional District Electoral Area C, which has its own building permit process, fee schedule, and inspection pathway. Most of these properties also run on private wells and septic. We confirm jurisdiction at the site visit and run the correct permit pathway from the start rather than mid-project.
What's in scope
A whole-home renovation is several rooms and every trade running on overlapping schedules. Every trade under the Huntley payroll or coordinated directly by our project manager. One point of contact. One company accountable.
We sequence the work so a functional kitchen and at least one usable bathroom stay online for as long as the project allows. Phasing is the difference between living through a renovation and renting somewhere for months. We plan it room by room at the start, not once demolition is underway.
Walls come out, rooms reconfigure, floor plans open up. We coordinate the structural engineer, framers, and mechanical rough-in on one schedule. Load-bearing changes are engineered ahead of demolition, not improvised when a wall opens.
Service upgrades from undersized panels to 200-amp, full rewires where knob-and-tube or aluminum branch circuits are present, new circuits for modern appliances and lighting throughout. Handled by our in-house Red Seal electricians, who pull the BC electrical permit directly.
Galvanized supply lines replaced with PEX or copper, cast-iron drains addressed, fixtures relocated as the new layout requires. On properties outside the Village we account for well flow and septic capacity. Our Red Seal plumbers are on the Huntley payroll, so the repipe coordinates with the build.
A whole-home renovation usually rebuilds the kitchen and every bathroom at once. We run those rooms as their own scoped projects inside the larger schedule, with cabinetry, tile, and fixture lead times planned so the build never waits on a back-ordered box.
Windows, siding, insulation, and roof upgrades often make sense alongside interior work, because you only tear into the walls once. On lakeside cabins held as year-round residences, four-season insulation and envelope work is core scope, not an add-on.
Flooring, trim, paint, hardware, and tile coordinated across every room so the home reads as one renovation rather than a collection of separately-finished spaces. We lock the palette at design stage and refer back to it at every later decision.
A newly insulated, newly sealed home often needs its heating resized. Propane and older heating systems on lakeside cabins get replaced and properly sized. We plan heating, ventilation, and any heat-pump work with the envelope upgrades rather than after them.
Six small projects.
One schedule that holds.
Most whole-home renovations go sideways not from one big mistake but from accumulated friction across many trades. Framers, Red Seal electricians, and Red Seal plumbers under one payroll, run by one project manager, is how the weeks stop quietly disappearing.
How a Huntley whole-home gets built
We walk the entire Harrison home or cabin, look at the bones, check the electrical service, plumbing, and heating, and on properties outside the Village read the well and septic. Older cabin projects often need a structural opinion upfront, which we coordinate. You get an honest read on scope and rough budget before detailed design begins.
Designer or architectural drawings, structural engineering where needed, finish selections specified, and mechanical upgrade plans drafted. The quote lands line-item by trade and by room so you see what drives every dollar. Whole-home quoting takes longer because the scope is larger, and that is deliberate.
Building permit through the Village of Harrison Hot Springs, or through FVRD Electoral Area C for properties outside the Village, with trade permits for electrical and plumbing pulled directly by our in-house Red Seal trades. Protection plan for any areas you are living in, a decant plan for furniture, and long-lead materials ordered first.
The sequence varies by project. A common pattern is mechanical and structural first, then rough-in, then envelope, then interior finishes zone by zone. One project manager, regular updates, and the site walked with you so you see progress against the schedule rather than guessing at it.
Final mechanical commissioning, inspections, deficiency resolution, and handover. Manuals and warranty documents for every fixture and system. The 12-month Huntley Workmanship Commitment starts from handover and covers every trade that worked on the home.
Honest numbers
Most contractors will not publish real numbers on whole-home work because the scope varies so much. We will, because clients who understand ranges make better decisions. These are typical Harrison project bands by scope tier. Final quote is line-itemed by trade and by room after detailed scoping.
Cosmetic whole-home
$150K – $250K
Paint, flooring, light fixtures, hardware, a minor kitchen refresh, bathroom updates. No structural changes and no major mechanical upgrades. Moves a tired home into a current-feeling home without opening walls.
Significant refresh
$250K – $400K
Full kitchen renovation, two bathroom rebuilds, all flooring, all paint, new lighting, some electrical upgrades, possibly new windows. Modest structural changes such as opening one wall or adding an island. The most common whole-home scope.
Full renovation
$400K – $650K
Down to the studs in most rooms. Full kitchen, all bathrooms, new flooring throughout, full electrical rewire, plumbing replacement, heating updates, significant structural changes, possibly envelope work. The home rebuilt while keeping the foundation and framing.
Premium
$650K+
Down-to-studs with custom finishes throughout, major structural reconfiguration, high-end appliances, premium cabinetry, and often a building envelope retrofit. Approaching the cost of a custom build, without the land and foundation cost.
Typical Harrison and Fraser Valley ranges, not quotes. Actual pricing depends on scope, existing conditions, structural and mechanical upgrades required, jurisdiction, and finish grade. Whole-home quotes require detailed scoping beyond a first site visit. Down-to-studs work usually includes a full home rewire, scoped through our electrical division.
Real numbers, real scope
Site visit, walk the whole house, line-item quote. No pressure.
What to watch for
Whole-home renovations rarely fail from one big mistake. They fail from accumulated friction: small surprises that compound across months of construction. Here are the four most common ones we see on Harrison homes, and how we plan around them.
A cabin whole-home renovation gets quoted for new finishes, a new kitchen, and new bathrooms, while the mixed-era wiring, galvanized supply lines, undersized service, and propane heating common on older Harrison cabins do not get priced in. Months into the build the homeowner faces tens of thousands in change orders for a rewire, repipe, service upgrade, and heating replacement. Our site visit specifically looks for these, and the line items make it into the contract before signing.
Harrison properties fall under either the Village of Harrison Hot Springs or FVRD Electoral Area C, and the two have different permit processes, fee schedules, and inspection pathways. A contractor who assumes the wrong one stalls at intake. We confirm jurisdiction at the site visit and run the correct permit pathway from the start.
On Electoral Area C properties outside the Village, adding bathrooms or higher-flow fixtures can outrun a marginal well or septic field sized for the original cabin. The failure mode is a finished renovation that overtaxes the system within a season. We verify well flow and septic capacity at the site visit and design the fixture count and any system upgrades into the plan.
Many Harrison whole-home renovations can be staged so you stay in the house. A cabin down-to-studs project or a seasonal-to-year-round conversion usually cannot, because heating, water, and power get shut down in overlapping stages. The failure mode is a contractor who says yes when the honest answer is no, because yes makes the sale easier. We tell you at the site visit which category your project is actually in.
Harrison whole-home FAQ
The questions Harrison homeowners ask us at the site visit. Straight answers on scope, timeline, mechanical upgrades, jurisdiction, and living through it before you sign with anyone.
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Whole-home renovations don't go sideways from any single failure. They go sideways from accumulated friction across many trades. Here is what changes when one company runs the whole project.
Typical Chilliwack contractor
Huntley Construction
Trade coordination
Typical
Phone tag across 4 to 6 separate companies
Huntley
Framers, Red Seal electricians and plumbers all in-house, in person on site
Project manager
Typical
Often the owner, often stretched thin
Huntley
Dedicated PM running every trade on one schedule
Permit jurisdiction
Typical
Wrong pathway assumed, stalls at intake
Huntley
Village vs FVRD Electoral Area C confirmed at site visit
Mid-project discoveries
Typical
Surprise change orders, tense conversations
Huntley
Common discoveries flagged at site visit, documented before work begins
Mechanical upgrades
Typical
Found mid-build, priced as change orders
Huntley
Rewire, repipe, heating, well and septic scoped at first site visit
Workmanship warranty
Typical
Each sub-trade offers their own, if any
Huntley
12-month Huntley Workmanship Commitment covers every trade that worked on the home
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Phasing & sequence matter
We come to your home, walk every room, and talk about what is possible within your budget. You get honest answers, a clear scope, and a line-item quote. No pressure, no mystery pricing.