The person who quoted your job is in the room when the plastic goes up.

This site is run by Gudzen, trading at gudzen.store. It is an interior renovation business: we work inside homes, condos and small commercial units in and around Austin, Texas. The office and workshop is at 73 Market Street, Apt 3, Austin, Texas 03119, United States. That is where the van loads in the morning and where the paperwork gets done at night.

The crew is a lead plus a handful of people who have worked together for several seasons. Same faces on every job. The lead walks the house, writes the scope, and is on site most days of the job, not just the first and last one. If you call the number on this page, you get someone who knows which room you mean.

We are not a design-build firm and we do not pretend to be one. There is no showroom and no sales rep. You talk to the people who will be holding the knives.

Drywall dust is finer than flour and it goes everywhere the air goes. Under the doors, and through the return vent into the bedroom closet at the far end of the house. Most complaints about renovation crews in Austin start there, and most of them are about a job where nobody bothered to seal the room. So the first half-morning of every job is spent building the wall, and we charge for that time openly instead of skipping it.

Here is the order, every time, whether the job is a half-bath strip-out or a whole-floor skim coat.

People put up with a renovation a lot better when they know when the noise starts and when it stops. So the day runs to a clock. It changes a little on a demo day and a little on a drying day, but this is the shape of it.

The written scope names the materials, so you can check what went into your wall. These are the defaults. If you want something else and it is not worse, we will use it.

Gudzen does interior work only. No roofs, no foundations, no additions, no new builds. Inside the house, the work falls into four stages, and one crew runs all of them so there is no three-week gap waiting for the next trade to turn up.

• Demolition and strip-out. Tile, vanities, cabinets, drywall, carpet, glued-down vinyl and popcorn ceiling. Debris bagged and hauled, priced per 10-yard load apart from labour.
• Rough finishing. Drywall installation and finishing: hanging board, cement board behind tile, taping to Level 4 as standard, skim coats to Level 5 as a separate line, patching after plumbers and electricians, and self-levelling underlayment on subfloors.
• Small repairs. Doors that stick, hinges, strikes, baseboard and casing, caulk and grout, holes, water-stained ceilings, loose tile. Booked by the half day or the day.
• Finish work and handover. Trim, primer and two coats of paint, hardware, then the punch list walked with you and a final clean before the last invoice.

We turn down structural walls, gas lines, electrical panel upgrades and full kitchen or bath design. Those need an engineer or a licensed trade to sign off, and we say so on the first call and tell you who to ring. The full scope, cure times and pricing basis for each stage are on the services page.

Every figure we give is a pricing basis. The number you can hold us to is the written estimate after a free walk-through.