From the heritage core climbing the hill above the Fraser to the Cedar Valley slopes and rural Hatzic acreage, Mission 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 Mission 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. 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 Mission
Mission stacks a lot of housing eras on a small footprint, and a whole-home renovation reads that history room by room. The heritage core climbs the hill above the Fraser with pre-war and post-war homes. Cedar Valley and Silverdale built out on graded slopes through the 1980s and 1990s. Hatzic Lake holds lake-adjacent properties. Stave Falls and Hatzic Prairie run rural. The baseline scope changes meaningfully by area.
In the heritage core, a whole-home project almost always means a full rewire off knob-and-tube, a repipe off galvanized supply lines, and a gravity-furnace replacement, alongside the finish work. These are mechanical and envelope upgrades as much as renovations. We build those realities into the scope at the site visit rather than discovering them in week eight.
On the Cedar Valley and Silverdale slopes, the homes are newer and the bones are good. Whole-home work tends toward a significant refresh rather than a down-to-studs strip: a kitchen rebuild, several bathroom reworks, all flooring and paint, and main-floor openings, run as one coordinated project. The walk-out lower levels and slope drainage need planning together with the interior work.
Whole-home is where the coordination matters most. Every room has its own electrical, plumbing, and finish requirements, and every phase affects the next. At Huntley, our framers, Red Seal electricians, and Red Seal plumbers work for the same company. The rough-in coordination meeting happens at the job site on a Tuesday morning, not on a three-way phone call between separate trades. One project manager runs the whole thing on one schedule.
The Mission whole-home context
Mission is not one housing market. A whole-home renovation in a heritage-core home above the Fraser is a different project from a Cedar Valley slope refresh or a rural Hatzic Prairie acreage. We plan each one for the house in front of us.
Pre-war and post-war homes climbing the hillside above the Fraser are where Mission whole-home renovations get most involved. Knob-and-tube wiring still in service, galvanized supply lines, original gravity furnaces, and lath-and-plaster walls all show up. A serious whole-home project here is a mechanical and envelope upgrade as much as a finish renovation. We have rewired enough Mission heritage homes to know which projects run in one phase and which are better staged.
Built out heavily through the 1980s and 1990s on graded hillside lots. Walk-out basements, retaining walls, and drainage routing complicate whole-home work that touches mechanical lines or reconfigures the lower level. The bones are generally good, so projects here lean toward a significant refresh: kitchen, bathrooms, flooring, and main-floor openings run as one coordinated job. We plan slope and drainage interactions at quote stage.
Foreshore considerations, riparian setbacks, and lake-effect humidity that accelerates wear on finishes and cabinetry. Whole-home scope here often includes moisture management across the house: proper venting, dehumidification planning, and finish-grade selection you would not need to think about on a Cedar Valley split-level. Riparian and setback rules can affect any footprint changes.
Rural Mission brings wells, septic, propane, and Agricultural Land Reserve overlays into every whole-home quote. Well-water flow affects fixture and appliance selection across the house. Septic field capacity limits how many bathrooms the system supports. ALR rules restrict footprint changes and accessory dwellings on agricultural-zoned property. We assess all of that at the site visit, not at permit stage.
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 six 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 60 or 100-amp 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 and polybutylene supply lines replaced with PEX or copper, cast-iron drains addressed, fixtures relocated as the new layout requires. Our Red Seal plumbers are on the Huntley payroll, so the repipe coordinates with the build instead of waiting on a sub-trade.
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. Older Mission homes especially benefit from an envelope upgrade run with the interior, where the same work done separately later costs significantly more.
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 and ventilation resized. Original gravity furnaces in older Mission homes get replaced and properly sized. We plan furnace, 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 Mission home, look at the bones, check the electrical service, plumbing, and heating, and listen to what you are trying to achieve. Heritage-core and rural projects often need a structural opinion or a well-and-septic read 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 District of Mission, trade permits for electrical and plumbing pulled directly by our in-house Red Seal trades, and any riparian or ALR approvals the property requires. 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, weekly updates, and the site walked with you regularly 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 Mission 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, HVAC 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 Mission and Fraser Valley ranges, not quotes. Actual pricing depends on scope, existing conditions, structural and mechanical upgrades required, 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 Mission homes, and how we plan around them.
A whole-home renovation gets quoted for new finishes, a new kitchen, and new bathrooms, while the knob-and-tube wiring, galvanized supply lines, and gravity furnace common in the Mission heritage core do not get priced in. Six weeks into demolition the homeowner faces tens of thousands in change orders for a full rewire, repipe, and furnace replacement. Our site visit specifically looks for these, and the line items make it into the contract before signing.
Demolition opens a wall and reveals a load-bearing condition the original drawings did not anticipate: a header that needs sizing up, or a post relocation that requires a new footing below. On Cedar Valley and Silverdale slope homes, the lower level adds retaining and drainage considerations. The fix is to involve a structural engineer at the design stage rather than at first demolition. We coordinate that upfront so a wall opening becomes a confirmed plan, not a stop-work event.
Many Mission whole-home renovations can be staged so you stay in the house. Some genuinely cannot, because heating, water, and power get shut down in overlapping stages, and a heritage-core rewire often falls in that camp. 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.
On a six-month project, decisions get made room by room over many weeks. Without a locked palette, the kitchen tile chosen in week three does not coordinate with the bathroom fixtures picked in week sixteen, and the home reads as separately-renovated rooms instead of one renovation. We lock flooring, trim, paint, hardware, tile family, and fixture grade at design stage and refer back to them at every later decision.
Mission whole-home FAQ
The questions Mission homeowners ask us at the site visit. Straight answers on scope, timeline, mechanical upgrades, 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
Schedule
Typical
Drift of weeks to months from sub-trade conflicts
Huntley
Committed in writing, held because the trades work for us
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 and plumbing replacement scoped at first site visit
Permits
Typical
Waiting on each sub-trade to pull their own permit
Huntley
We pull the District of Mission building and trade permits directly
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We work in every Mission neighborhood and across the Fraser Valley. The whole-home projects we run in the heritage core differ from the refreshes in Cedar Valley or the rural work out toward Stave Falls. See the area page closest to your home for what we typically run into there.
Chilliwack neighborhoods
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Fraser Valley cities
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Kitchen renovations by city
Dedicated kitchen pages for each Fraser Valley city we work in.
Bathroom renovations by city
Dedicated bathroom pages for each Fraser Valley city we work in.
Basement renovations by city
Dedicated basement & legal suite pages for each Fraser Valley city we work in.
Whole-home renovations by city
Dedicated whole-home renovation pages for each Fraser Valley city we work in.
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.