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Findlay Quality Kitchen & Bathroom Remodeling works on kitchens and bathrooms in Crestline, OH. Most houses here are old enough that a remodel turns up something nobody planned for, and a few jobs start with weather instead of a wish list. Either way, the repair and the project you were already thinking about arrive as one job, and we plan them that way.
We advertise six categories of work, and a storm-damaged house usually needs more than one of them. When a whole room has to come back, that is kitchen remodeling and bathroom remodeling. When the fixtures are what fails you, we build custom showers, convert tubs to showers, and take on aging-in-place bathroom remodeling for a household that wants to stay put. And when a house has more room than it uses, we finish basements, including basement bathrooms, and handle cabinetry, countertops and kitchen upgrade packages.
Our installers and carpenters are our own employees, and one of them is on your job every day it runs. We have been at this more than 15 years. We plan rooms to National Kitchen & Bath Association (NKBA) guidelines. We are licensed and insured. Until you sign a change order, your itemized proposal does not move.
A Crestline remodel usually has a history behind it. The house is old, or the weather got to it, and often both are true at once. Any remodeling contractor in Crestline should be able to tell you which of the two is driving your scope, and it is the first thing we look for.
An estimate visit costs you nothing, and you can book one on (419) 701-5397.
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Some of these jobs begin with damage, which changes the order the decisions get made in. It does not, however, change the standard the finished room is held to.
A kitchen that has been open to the weather comes back from the framing out, and the first measurement we take is the finished floor height. New flooring rarely sits at the same level as what came out, so the range and the dishwasher need their clearances checked before any cabinet is set. We set the cabinets to the new height, and where a wall is out of square, a narrow strip of matching wood at the end of the row takes up the gap.
When the ceiling comes down first, the bathroom is a rebuild. We dry the framing and check it before anything closes it in, because wet studs behind new tile buy you a second job. Moisture-resistant drywall goes back on the walls around the tub and shower, and standard board everywhere else. Before demolition starts, we agree with you how many days the room will be out of service.
A surround damaged by wind goes on the replacement list years before style would have put it there. With it out, the compartment can change shape. A built-in shower bench uses the depth a tub used to take, and it gets framed and waterproofed along with the wall around it, so there is no seam where the two meet. We set the shower valve before the walls close, since moving it afterwards means opening them again.
For most of the year a Crestline lower level is a family room, and on a bad night it is where the household goes. We seal and insulate the rim joist first, the band of framing where the floor structure meets the top of the foundation wall, because that is where a finished basement loses most of its heat. The other early decision is the basement bathroom. Waste below the sewer line has to be pumped up to it, and the layout follows wherever that pump can sit.
While the walls are already open, access changes cost less than they ever will again. Clear floor space in front of the toilet and the sink is what decides whether a walker or a wheelchair fits, and where the fixtures land sets it. If the doorway is going to be widened, now is when that happens. While the studs are open we screw blocking, which is solid timber behind the finished wall, wherever a grab bar might later go, whether or not you want one fitted this year.
New cabinets have to look like they were always there when only part of a kitchen was damaged. We match the face frame, the flat wood frame across the front of the cabinet box, in both profile and stain, and that is usually possible even when the original door is out of production. Where new work meets old, an end panel finishes the run. We tell you before you order when a match will not come out right.
Some of the kitchen & bathroom remodeling in Crestline starts as storm work, and that work reaches us as a document before it reaches us as a room. The document is a scope of loss, the itemized list your insurer writes of what it accepts was damaged. The event that produced most of it here is nine years old now, but the pattern it left has not changed. A storm damages some things and leaves others alone, and what you want put back may not be what was there. Both are worth settling early.
On the night of 4 September 2017, a tornado rated EF-2, the middle of six damage grades, tracked east along Krichbaum Road, just north of the village. It did not come through Crestline. The National Weather Service surveyed it at about 130 miles per hour, over a path about 17 miles long and 400 yards wide, and what its report lists is roofs, garages and outbuildings, along with one first-floor bedroom destroyed.
That pattern is why storm work around here turns into interior work. Once a roof opens at night, water runs through the ceiling below it and into the rooms under that, so the bill lands in kitchens, bathrooms and finished basements long after the roof itself is back on.
That document is written to put a room back the way it was, in the materials that were there. Once the wall is open, most people want something different anyway, and there is nothing unusual about saying so. We quote the two apart, so you can decide with both numbers in front of you. In housing this old, what was there is often no longer sold, so the match becomes a specification decision. We make that decision with you before demolition.
We can price open damage far more accurately than anything described over the phone, so reach us at (419) 701-5397 and we will come and look at it.
Crestline was platted in 1852 and counted 4,525 people at the 2020 census. It is a Crawford County village, and its offices share North Seltzer Street with the police department, though part of the village crosses into Richland County.
The name is older than any survey that could have tested it. When the village was named, settlers believed it stood on the highest ground in Ohio, and on the watershed that separates the streams running north to Lake Erie from those running south to the Ohio River. Neither belief held up. Although the divide lies a little to the south, the name stayed anyway.
More than anything else, the railroad is what built the place. Crestline was a division point on the Pennsylvania Railroad's Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway, and its roundhouse on Crestline Road was decommissioned in 1968. Since 1978, the First United Methodist Church, built in 1890 at Thoman and Union streets, has been on the National Register of Historic Places. The Crestline Public Library and the Crestline Exempted Village School District serve the village, whichever end of it your house sits on. A place built that early has the housing to go with it, and that housing is most of what brings us here.
The ground under Crestline and the age of its houses both reach a remodel here. Neither changes what we build for you, but both change what we look at before the first hammer swing.
Crestline stands at 1,152 feet, which is higher than the ground where the Sandusky River starts. The river begins at Leesville, west of the village, then runs west through Bucyrus and only turns north well beyond it. A lower level here is usually dealing with the water that lands on its own lot.
That is not a promise of a dry basement, and we will not make you one. It does mean the first things we look at are the grade against the foundation, the state of the gutters, and how far the downspouts carry water away from the wall. Those three cost less to correct than anything we could build inside, and they decide how well the finished space holds up.
About a third of the houses in Crestline were built before 1940. Across Ohio it is about a fifth of the housing, and nationally about one house in eight, so the gap here is real. An older house is less predictable to work on, and the difference shows up in the sequence. Since surprises are cheapest before anything is committed, we survey the house before we write the proposal. Where something is genuinely unknown, we write it down as unknown and price it as a decision you will make later. That is what holds a schedule.
A village on a county line produces a paperwork arrangement that surprises people who assume the county on the sign is the county on the form. Crestline still handles zoning certificates in house, at the village office. Its residential building department, though, is contracted out to the Richland County Building Department, an arrangement dating from a set of changes the village made in 2023. So the zoning question and the building permit are answered by two different offices in two different counties.
Plumbing oversight is separate from both, and it sits with the Richland County Department of Public Health rather than with either building or zoning. For kitchen and bathroom work that is not a footnote, because moving a sink, adding a second bath or relocating a stack is the part of a remodel most likely to need signing off, and it is the part whose office nobody guesses correctly the first time.
None of this changes the work. It changes who to call and in what order, and getting that wrong costs a week rather than a day. We map the three before the schedule is built rather than after, and if an address sits on the Richland side of the line we say so at the estimate. Reach us on (419) 701-5397 to start with the address.
If you are about to start a Crestline project, these are the questions it usually raises, and the answers are the ones we would give you on the phone. If yours is not covered here, ask when you call.
Yes, and it is the normal way to run it. Both halves go into one proposal, with the repair costs and the costs of what you chose to change kept apart. That split matters after the job as much as during it, because anyone who reads the paperwork later can see which was which without taking our word for it. The changes themselves rarely add much time, since the crew is already in the room.
Usually a short list, and a familiar one. Board subfloors with gaps between the planks, framing that an earlier trade notched to get a pipe through, and a cast-iron waste stack near the end of its life. All of it is ordinary in a house this age, and all of it is workable. Because we look before we quote, all of it costs less to find in week one than in week four. We show you whatever turns up and agree what to do about it before anything is closed back in.
No, not in any way you will feel. The village offices on North Seltzer Street sit on the Crawford County side, and that is where a village question goes whichever county your parcel records in. We work the whole village on identical terms, so which side of the line your deed sits on never reaches your kitchen or your bathroom.
When damage stopped partway along a run, matching is the usual answer, and it is what we would suggest. Before the order goes in, we have a sample door finished in the proposed stain and put it in your kitchen, under your own lighting, next to the cabinets it has to live beside. Showroom light flatters a match that daylight will not.
Yes, mostly in the layout. We draw the route from the living space to the stairs first and let the furniture plan work around it, so the way out stays clear when the room is in use. We also keep the mechanicals reachable behind removable panels. What we cannot do is call a basement a storm shelter. That is a separately engineered and certified structure, and it is a different job from finishing a basement.
No, that is well inside our range. As far as scheduling goes, a project here runs the way one in Findlay would. We work Monday to Friday, 8 am to 5 pm, and there is no after-hours or emergency line. Storm damage is urgent, and our honest answer to it is a fast estimate during business hours. What a roof open at midnight needs first is not a remodeler anyway. It needs covering and drying, which is restoration work and a different trade, and the kitchen or bathroom is rebuilt once the house is dry. Call us for that second part.
Over the phone, nothing about a damaged house gets any clearer. So the estimate is free and it happens at the house. What comes back tells you which costs belong to putting the house back and which belong to what you have chosen to change.
Galion is close by, and we handle kitchen & bathroom remodeling in Galion on the same terms. For a house here, Findlay Quality Kitchen & Bathroom Remodeling is on (419) 701-5397. The quote form works just as well, and either one gets us out to your Crestline address.