Remodels & projects
Remodels for people who already have a Pinterest board (and a deadline).
Kitchens, baths, basements and the “we should finally fix that” project you have been circling for two years. Commercial finish habits, residential manners.
Remodels by the room
Home remodels in Salt Lake County — kitchens, baths, basements, and the project you have been circling
Salty Home Services is a licensed Utah general contractor for kitchen, bath and basement remodels across Salt Lake, Wasatch and Summit counties — scoped in writing, scheduled in stages, and finished through the punch list.
Salt Lake County is home base — Sandy, Draper, South Jordan, Holladay, Millcreek, Salt Lake City — and Wasatch and Summit County are on the same schedule. Whichever county the house is in, you get the same crew, the same written scope and the same standard at the end of it.
Kitchens
Cabinets, counters, tile, lighting, and the plumbing and electrical moves hiding behind all of it. Sometimes it’s a full gut, sometimes it’s new cabinets and counters with the sink staying put. The part that matters is sequence: the template happens when it should, not five weeks after the cabinets land in your garage.
Bathrooms
Tubs, walk-in showers, pans, waterproofing, tile, vanities, and the ventilation nobody thinks about until the paint starts peeling. Wet areas are where shortcuts show up eighteen months later, so the layers you will never see again are the ones we are fussiest about.
Basements & bonus rooms
Framing, insulation, mechanical routing, a bathroom or wet bar if you want one, and a finish that matches the floor above instead of announcing itself as "the basement." Same for the closet, mudroom and laundry projects that are really small remodels wearing a smaller word.
Project types
Rooms, not "solutions."
We take the projects where finish quality is the whole point — and where somebody actually has to manage the sequence so the countertop is not sitting in the garage for five weeks.
- Kitchens and baths, full or surgical
- Basement and bonus-room build-outs
- Closets, mudrooms and laundry rooms: built-ins and layout updates inside your existing space.
- Punch-out and finish work for other GCs
Dates that mean something
If a date is going to move, you hear it from us with a reason and a new date — not silence and a truck that never shows.
Commercial-grade finish habits
A background in national retail tenant improvement means tolerances, schedules and punch lists are not new concepts around here.
Selections without the spiral
We will tell you where a splurge shows and where it truly does not. Your budget goes further when someone is honest about tile.
How a project runs
Four stages, and you always know which one you are in.
- 01
Scope and walk
We walk the space, talk through the board you have been building, and separate the must-haves from the maybes.
- 02
Estimate and schedule
A real scope with real dates. You see what is included, what is excluded, and where the decisions land.
- 03
Build, in stages
50% deposit covers labor and materials to start, then progress billing as the work clears each stage.
- 04
Punch and hand-off
We walk it with you, list every last thing, and come back until the list is empty. Then we ask for the review.
Financing: third-party options are on the roadmap. If it matters to your timeline, mention it when we scope and we will tell you honestly where that stands today.
Handyman or remodel?
Book the smaller one when the smaller one will do.
Rough line: if it fits inside a booked day or two and nobody is moving a wall, a pipe or a circuit, that is handyman work — faster to schedule and cheaper to buy. Once the layout changes, the cabinets come out or the tile goes in, it is a remodel: scoped in writing, scheduled in stages, billed against progress.
We sell both, so we have no reason to talk you into the bigger one. Describe it and we will tell you which it is.
Where we build
All of Salt Lake County, plus Wasatch and Summit — all part of the normal week. See every city or read the city pages for Salt Lake City, Sandy, Draper, South Jordan, West Jordan, Park City, Millcreek, Holladay, Murray, Riverton, Herriman, West Valley City, Taylorsville, Midvale, Cottonwood Heights, Bluffdale, Heber City and Midway.
Proof, honestly
Project photography is still being shot, so our work is thinner than we would like. In the meantime, about Salty covers who turns up and why the finish habits are what they are.
Questions
Before you commit a kitchen to us.
Do you take surgical jobs, or only full gut remodels?
Both. When the cabinets are worn out we replace them, and a kitchen that only needs new cabinets and counters doesn’t have to go back to the studs. We’ll tell you honestly when yours does and when it doesn’t.
How does the estimate work?
We talk, we come and look at the actual space, and then you get it in writing line by line: what is included, what is excluded, and which decisions are the ones that move the number. No vague allowance doing the job a real scope should be doing.
How does billing work?
A 50% deposit covers labor and materials before we start, then we bill against progress as stages complete. Every invoice maps to scope you already approved.
Who handles permits?
It depends on your city, the structure and the scope of the work. We check what your project actually requires for your address before anyone starts rather than after — nobody enjoys that version of the conversation.
Do you do design?
We are builders, not a design studio. If you have a designer, we work with them happily. If you have a Pinterest board and a rough idea, we can usually build from that and tell you where it will fight the house.
How long does a bathroom take?
It depends on scope, selections and lead times, which is the honest answer rather than the one you want. We give you a real range at estimate — and we tell you which decisions will move it.
Will you take on half a project?
Yes. Punch-out and finish work for other GCs is a real part of what we do, and so is "the tile is in, we just need someone to actually finish."
Related services
The rest of the crew's range.
Remodels are the big version. These are the other four, all off the same calendar.
Request an estimate
Start a project estimate.
The room, the rough scope, or the board you have been building for two years. We come back with questions first, then a walk-through, then a scope you can actually read.
- A real reply from a person, usually inside 12–24 hours
- Photos of the space help us scope it before we come out
- Line items and exclusions, not allowances that drift
Your turn
You have the board. We have the calendar.
Send photos, a rough scope, or just the room you are tired of. We will tell you what it really takes.