Kitchen remodels
Many kitchen remodels in an older Las Vegas valley house involve removing a wall. If that wall carries load, it needs engineering and a permit, and it moves the schedule and a meaningful share of the budget, so NXG establishes it first.
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01 The kitchen, taken apart
More trades work here
than in any other room.Cabinetry, stone, plumbing, gas, electrical and lighting all meet in a kitchen, and NXG schedules each of them around the others.
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02 The island
Stone that turns
the corner.A waterfall edge carries the slab down to the floor, so the fabricator plans the seams and the vein match before cutting anything.
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03 Storage
Drawers
before doors.A deep drawer brings the back of a base cabinet within reach. You and NXG decide which go where, based on how you cook.
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04 Range and hood
The hood is
a wall finish.Plaster partners finish the hood in the same plaster as the walls around it, so it reads as part of the wall. NXG holds the C‑17 license and answers for that work.
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05 Behind the finishes
Behind the finishes,
the rough‑in.Rough‑in comes first: framing, gas, plumbing and electrical. The finishes go on over it. NXG holds the contract and the schedule; licensed trade partners do the work, and NXG manages the handoffs between them.
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06 Back together
Each trade
waits its turn.The inspector signs off the rough‑in before the walls close. The cabinets go in before the fabricator templates the stone, and the backsplash goes on after the slab.
Indoors, the wall is usually
the whole question.
Inside the house, and out back
NXG builds both. This page and the model above cover the kitchen inside the house. Out back the questions change: gas, power and water run underground from the house, and the appliances and stone have to stand the Las Vegas sun. The outdoor kitchen page has its own model.
Load-bearing, or just in the way
A partition carrying no load is demolition and patching. A bearing wall needs a beam sized by an engineer, posts down to a footing that can take them, a permit, and an inspection before anything is closed up.
You cannot tell which you have by looking at it, and the answer is not always what the previous owner’s contractor said. NXG establishes it from the framing and the load path before demolition, not during.
Everything in that wall has to go somewhere
Plumbing, gas, electrical and mechanical runs rarely survive a plan change untouched. Re-routing is normal work. Re-routing discovered after the drywall closed is not.
A kitchen that gains an island usually gains a circuit or several, and a house whose service was sized for one oven often needs the panel looked at before the appliance schedule is settled.
Plan the hood duct with the layout
A hood that moves a lot of air needs a duct route to the outside, and above 400 cfm the residential code can also require make-up air, depending on the fuel-burning appliances inside the house. That route runs through a ceiling, a cabinet or a roof, and it is far cheaper to plan than to retrofit.
The same goes for a second oven, a steam unit or anything gas: the vent path and the gas line get designed with the layout rather than fitted around it.
Where old meets new
A new opening in a thirty-year-old wall either matches the existing plaster texture or advertises itself for the life of the house. The same applies where new flooring meets original, and where new casing meets trim that was scribed by hand in 1994.
NXG holds the C‑17 plaster and C‑3 carpentry licenses and answers for the matching done under them.
What this covers.
- 01Load path established before demolition
- 02Engineered beam and header design where needed
- 03Plumbing, gas, electrical and mechanical re-routing
- 04Panel and service capacity reviewed against the appliance schedule
- 05Range hood duct route and make-up air planned with the layout
- 06Plaster texture and trim matched at new-to-old junctions
- 07Permit submittal and inspections through the right authority
- 08Interim kitchen arrangement while the room is out of use
Asked at every
kitchen consultation.
Do I need a permit for a kitchen remodel?
For cabinets and countertops alone, usually not. For anything structural, electrical, plumbing or mechanical, yes, and that covers most real kitchen work: a new opening, a moved sink, added circuits, a relocated range. Which department issues it depends on your address: Las Vegas, Henderson, North Las Vegas or Clark County in the valley, or Boulder City beyond it.
Can you open the kitchen to the living room?
Usually. What varies is the cost, and that comes down to whether the wall carries load and how far the beam has to span. A short opening in a partition and a full-width opening under a roof load are different projects with the same description.
How long will I be without a kitchen?
Plan on the kitchen being out of use for the middle of the project, not the whole of it. NXG sets up an interim arrangement, usually a sink, a fridge and a run of counter somewhere else, and we tell you the dates at the estimate rather than when the cabinets come out.
Will the new plaster match?
NXG holds the C‑17 Lath and Plaster license and answers for the match. Plaster partners sample the existing texture and match it on the new surface before paint, so any mismatch shows up on a sample instead of on the finished wall.
Do you build outdoor kitchens too?
Yes. Out back, NXG plans around the services instead of a wall: gas, power, water and drainage run out from the house, and every appliance and finish has to handle the sun. See outdoor kitchens.
The kitchen, in brief.
- Permit
- Required for structural, electrical, plumbing or mechanical change
- Structure
- Load path confirmed before demolition, beam engineered if bearing
- Services
- Re-routing planned, not discovered
- Finish
- Plaster and trim matched at junctions
- Occupancy
- Interim kitchen set up, dates given at estimate
- Licenses
- NV B‑2 #0091645
NV C‑17 #0092664
NV C‑3 #0092662
Related
Whole-home remodel
Primary suites and bathrooms
Outdoor kitchens
Talk to us
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- 3277 E Warm Springs Rd, Ste 200
Las Vegas, NV 89120 - Hours
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- NV B‑2 #0091645
NV C‑17 #0092664
NV C‑3 #0092662
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