Inside the Rough-In Stage of This Edina Home Remodel

Rough-in is the stage most homeowners never really think about - but it's where everything that matters gets decided. The walls are open, the framing is up, and every wire, outlet location, and circuit path gets locked in before drywall covers it all up for good. Get this stage wrong, and you're dealing with problems behind finished walls for years.

This is the fourth and final look at the rough-in stage of our Edina remodel. The scale of this job is hard to miss - we're talking multiple rooms, long hallways, bathroom wet walls, and ceiling work all happening at once. Every run of wire and every box location was planned out before a single staple went in. That kind of coordination doesn't happen by accident on a job this size.

On a remodel like this, rough-in is more complicated than new construction. You're working around existing structure, older framing, and spaces that were never designed to handle a modern electrical load. We planned the circuits to support how the finished home will actually be used - not just how the old one was wired.

What you're seeing here is the foundation of a safe, reliable home. Once insulation and drywall go in, none of this will be visible. But it will be felt every single day - in outlets that work where you need them, lights that are placed right, and a system built to code from the ground up.

This is the kind of work we do on full remodels and additions throughout the area. The finish details get the attention, but jobs like this one are won or lost during rough-in. We take that seriously.