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About MS Home Remodeling
We’re a remodeling company working out of Houston’s Energy Corridor, taking on residential work across the metro. Insured, and 5-star rated on Google. This page covers who we are and how a job actually runs.
- Licensed & Insured
- 20+ years remodeling
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The short answer
MS Home Remodeling is a licensed and insured residential remodeling company based at 1530 W Sam Houston Pkwy N in Houston’s Energy Corridor, with 20+ years of remodeling experience and a 5-star Google rating across 21+ client reviews. We work across the Houston metro — Katy, Cypress, Sugar Land, Pearland, The Woodlands and beyond. Call (281) 235-6971 with your cross streets and we’ll confirm before anyone drives out.
Where we work from, and how far we come
We’re at 1530 W Sam Houston Pkwy N in the Energy Corridor, west Houston, off the I-10 and Eldridge side of town. That location does more than give us an address. A remodel isn’t one visit. It’s a crew in your driveway most mornings for weeks, a countertop templater, an inspector, a glass installer, and then two or three short return trips after you’ve already moved back in. Drive time decides whether those last trips actually happen or turn into a month of phone calls.
We take work across the Houston metro, out to, Cinco Ranch, Fulshear, Brookshire, Waller, Richmond, Rosenberg, Sugar Land, Stafford, Missouri City, Fresno
That spread matters because these are not the same houses. A 1965 ranch in Bellaire and a 2006 two-storey in Cinco Ranch fail in completely different ways, and what’s behind the drywall is different too. More on that below.
Call (281) 235-6971 and tell us the cross streets. If you’re past the edge of that radius, we’ll say so on the phone instead of driving out, padding the number to cover the mileage, and wasting your afternoon.
Licensed and insured — and what to ask us for
MS Home Remodeling carries insurance, and the plumbing and electrical work on your job is performed by tradesmen licensed by the state of Texas. “Licensed and insured” sits on every contractor’s website in this city, so here is how to check it means something on your job specifically.
Texas licenses plumbers and electricians at the state level, not the city level. When a permit is pulled for plumbing or electrical work at your address, it goes under that tradesman’s own licence and their name is attached to it. You’re entitled to see it. Ask. Anyone doing that work on your house should be able to produce a licence number without hunting for it.
On insurance, ask for a certificate sent directly from the agent rather than a PDF forwarded by the contractor. Check that the dates cover your build window and that general liability is named. If anyone will be working from height or on a roof, ask about workers’ compensation specifically — Texas doesn’t require every employer to carry it, so that deserves an explicit answer instead of an assumption.
We’re also 5-star rated on Google across 21+ client reviews, with 20+ years of remodeling experience behind the work. Reviews are worth reading rather than counting. Look for what people say about the parts of a job that go sideways — change orders, delays, the punch list — not the finished photos. Anyone can photograph a good day.
The houses we work on, and how they fail
Almost every house here sits on a slab poured on the ground, and that ground is expansive clay. It swells when it rains and shrinks in an August drought, and the slab moves with it. That’s the single most useful fact about remodeling in Houston. It’s why interior doors that closed fine in March bind in September, why grout lines open on a diagonal, and why nobody honest will promise you a tile floor that will never crack. What we can do is detail for it — an uncoupling or crack-isolation layer under tile, and flexible sealant instead of grout at every change of plane.
Older inner-Houston stock, roughly 1960s through early 80s, hides a familiar set of problems: cast iron drain lines scaled down to half their bore or bellied under the slab, galvanised supply rusted closed enough to kill your shower pressure, ungrounded two-prong circuits, no GFCI protection anywhere near water, and a panel with no spare breaker space. Add particleboard cabinet boxes and subfloor that’s been quietly damp for years.
Houses built from the mid-80s onward in Katy, Cypress and Fulshear are usually on post-tension slabs, with steel cables held in tension inside the concrete. You don’t cut, core or anchor into one without locating the tendons first — cutting a cable is a serious repair, not a scratch. If your plan involves moving a shower drain or adding a floor drain, that conversation happens before anyone writes a number.
The trades a remodel actually pulls in
Homeowners picture a remodel as tile and cabinets. Tile is the last quarter of it. A bathroom or kitchen of any size touches demolition, framing, plumbing, electrical, sometimes mechanical, drywall, waterproofing, tile, cabinetry, countertops, glass, paint and hardware — and those trades arrive in a fixed order, each leaving the job in a state the next one can work with.
What that means for you is that decisions aren’t independent. Where the shower valve sits is a plumbing decision, but it’s driven by the tile layout, which is driven by the slab of stone you chose, which is driven by which cabinet run goes where. Change one item late and you pay for it three trades downstream. That’s why our process pushes hard on locking selections before demolition rather than after.
Permits get pulled under the licensed trade doing the work, so your plumber and electrician aren’t interchangeable bodies on a schedule. Countertop templating and shower glass work the same way: both are measured off what’s physically built, not off a drawing. That’s why they land late, and why their lead time hits at the end of your project instead of the beginning, when you have the least patience left.
How a project runs, in short
The long version is on our process page. The short version:
- You call (281) 235-6971 and describe the space, the house, and what you want changed.
- We come out and measure. Not a walk-through with a phone camera — real dimensions, ceiling heights, where the supply and waste currently run, what’s in the attic above, what’s left in the panel.
- We write a scope: what’s removed, what’s built, what’s replaced, and what specifically is not included.
- You make selections — tile, fixtures, cabinets, countertop, hardware — and they get locked before anything comes out.
- Permits where the work requires them.
- Demolition, then rough-in, then inspection, then the walls close.
- Waterproofing, tile, cabinets, countertop template, countertop set, plumbing trim, glass, paint, hardware.
- Punch walk with you, written list, then handover.
Two things about that sequence. First, nothing gets covered before it’s inspected — not out of stubbornness, but because the only thing worse than a leak is a leak behind finished tile. Second, the order isn’t negotiable mid-job. Changing the countertop after cabinets are set is a real cost, not a bureaucratic one.
How we talk about price
We don’t give kitchen or bathroom prices over the phone, and you should be wary of anyone who does. The number depends on things nobody can know from a description: whether the drain under that slab is cast iron or PVC, whether the wall you want opened is carrying load, whether your panel has room for the circuits a new layout needs, whether the slab is post-tension, whether the tile you picked needs a flatter substrate than what’s under it now.
What you get instead is a written scope with the work broken out and allowances stated plainly wherever a selection hasn’t been made yet. An allowance is a placeholder, not a price. If you pick a stone above it, the difference is yours — and you should learn that at the start rather than at invoice time.
We’d rather lose a job at the estimate stage than take one where the number was fiction. What ruins remodels in this city isn’t expensive contractors. It’s a low bid that assumed everything behind the wall was fine, followed by a run of change orders once demolition proves otherwise. A scope that names the unknowns up front, and says how each one gets priced if it shows up, reads higher on paper and lands lower at the end.
What happens after we leave
Handover isn’t the end of a remodel in a climate like this one. A few things will move, and it’s better to hear it now than to think something went wrong.
- Sealant lines at the tub, the shower base and the backsplash will open slightly through the first wet-dry cycle. That joint is doing its job. Caulk is maintenance, not a defect.
- Solid doors and cabinet doors swell and shrink with humidity here. Hinges get adjusted, not replaced.
- Hard water will scale new frameless glass within weeks if it isn’t squeegeed, and it will spot and etch polished marble. If you chose polished stone, plan to maintain it. Honed hides more.
- On clay soil in a dry summer, watch for hairline movement at grout lines and door reveals. Keep the soil around the perimeter evenly damp rather than letting it bake and then soaking it.
Call us when something isn’t right. A punch item raised in the first weeks is a short visit. The same item raised a year later becomes a longer conversation about what caused it and who owns it.
Common questions
Do you work in my area?
We cover the Houston metro out to, Cinco Ranch, Fulshear, Cypress, Tomball, Spring, The Woodlands, Conroe, Montgomery, New Caney, Waller, Brookshire, Richmond, Rosenberg, Sugar Land, Stafford, Missouri City, Fresno, Bellaire, Pearland, Alvin, League City, Kemah, Texas City and Liberty. Call (281) 235-6971 with your cross streets and we’ll confirm before anyone drives out.
Are you licensed and insured?
Yes. We’re licensed and insured, and you’re entitled to verify both. Ask for the insurance certificate to come directly from the agent rather than forwarded to you, and check the dates cover your build window. Texas licenses plumbers and electricians at the state level, so the trade pulling a permit at your address does it under their own licence number — ask to see it.
Can you give me a price over the phone?
No, and neither can anyone else honestly. The cost of a kitchen or bathroom turns on what’s behind the wall and under the slab: cast iron versus PVC drains, whether a wall carries load, whether the panel has capacity, whether the slab is post-tension. We measure first, then write a scope with the work broken out and allowances stated where selections aren’t final yet.
Who handles the permits?
Permits are pulled under the licensed trade doing the work, so plumbing and electrical permits go under those tradesmen’s own licences. Which jurisdiction you’re in changes the process — the City of Houston, unincorporated Harris or Fort Bend County, and each incorporated city all run their own. We confirm the authority for your specific address before work is scheduled, rather than applying a rule from somewhere else.
My house flooded before. Does that change the remodel?
Usually, yes. Water travels further than the stain suggests, and particleboard and untreated bottom plates wick it upward. Where a house has taken water, previous repairs are often shallow — new sheetrock over framing that was never dried out or replaced. Tell us up front, including how high the water came. It changes what we expect to find at demolition and how the scope is written.
Related reading
- What Makes Our Work Different
- How We Work: From First Call to Handover
- Living Through a Remodel
- Contact MS Home Remodeling
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MS Home Remodeling · 1530 W Sam Houston Pkwy N, Houston, TX 77043 · (281) 235-6971