Straight answers to remodeling questions

CBC stands for Certified Building Contractor, a state license issued by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation after exams, experience verification, and financial checks. A CBC may construct, remodel, repair, and improve residential and commercial buildings up to three stories. It is a higher bar than a handyman registration or a local specialty license: it covers structural work, and it is valid in every Florida county. Sunologi holds license CBC1261200.

Yes, twice over. Sunologi Inc. holds Florida Certified Building Contractor license CBC1261200 and Florida Certified Pool/Spa Contractor license CPC1460937, and carries general liability and workers compensation coverage. You can verify both at the Florida DBPR license search. Sunologi also holds an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau and a 5 star rating on HomeAdvisor. Certificates of insurance are available on request before any work begins.

We serve 14 Central Florida counties from our Sanford office: Orange, Seminole, Osceola, Lake, Polk, Volusia, Pinellas, Hillsborough, Pasco, Hernando, Citrus, Marion, Flagler, and Sumter, plus surrounding areas when the project makes sense. See the service area page for the cities we work in most.

Yes, always, and at no separate hassle to you. We prepare the permit package, pull the permit under our CBC license, schedule every inspection, and close the permit out at the end. If a contractor asks you to pull your own permit as an owner builder, that is a warning sign: it usually means they cannot pull it themselves.

It depends on the band your project falls into: a cosmetic refresh, a full remodel keeping the same layout, or a remodel that moves walls or plumbing, and each is a very different number. Cabinets, countertop material, and layout changes drive the price. We do not publish price ranges because no two kitchens land in the same place; every Sunologi quote follows a site visit and arrives as a written line item scope you can compare honestly.

Tile scope and whether plumbing moves are the big variables: a hall bath refresh, a full gut with a new tile shower, and a primary bath with layout changes are three different projects. We quote from a site visit rather than publishing ranges, and the written line item scope shows exactly where the money goes before you sign anything.

By the square foot, with the rate set by complexity: a simple bedroom on grade sits at one end, a suite with a bathroom or major roof rework at the other. Design, engineering, and permitting are part of the real number. Every addition is quoted from a site visit after we check setbacks, easements, and septic, because those change what is buildable.

Yes, always. Room additions require engineered plans and a building permit, with inspections at foundation, framing, electrical, insulation, and final. An unpermitted addition creates real problems at appraisal, insurance, and sale time. We handle the full permit package.

Two to four weeks of on site work for a standard remodel, four to six weeks for a full gut with a custom tile shower. When permits are required, county review adds two to six weeks before work starts depending on the jurisdiction.

Three to six weeks of on site work for a same layout remodel and six to ten weeks when the layout changes. We do not start demolition until your cabinets and counters are ordered and scheduled, because material lead time, not labor, is what stretches kitchen projects.

Be careful with large deposits. Under Florida law (Statute 489.126), a contractor who takes more than 10 percent down on a project needing a permit must apply for that permit within 30 days of the deposit and start work within 90 days of permit issuance. Our deposits follow a written payment schedule tied to milestones, and we put the schedule in the contract where you can see it before signing.

Yes. We work with third party home improvement lenders and can share current options during your estimate. Many customers also use home equity lines from their own bank. We will lay out the real monthly numbers either way and we do not mark up projects to hide financing costs.

A group of Florida home service companies under the same ownership, anchored by AllSolar Energy Inc., which has served Florida homeowners since 1999 with roughly 15,000 customers and a 4.9 star Google rating. Sunologi Inc. is the construction division: the licensed building contractor that handles remodeling, renovation, and outdoor construction.

Both, honestly. Core carpentry, installation, and project management are our own local people. Licensed trades like electrical, plumbing, and HVAC connections are performed by licensed trade contractors we have worked with for years, under our supervision and our permit. Either way, Sunologi holds the contract and the responsibility.

Yes. The site visit and the written estimate are free. For large projects that need engineered drawings, design and engineering are quoted separately before you commit, and that cost is credited into the project if you build with us.

Go to the Florida DBPR license portal at myfloridalicense.com, choose license search, and enter the license number. For Sunologi, search CBC1261200; the record shows the license status and the qualified business. Every legitimate Florida contractor will hand you a license number without hesitation. Treat hesitation as your answer.

Five things: no license number on their paperwork or website, pressure to skip permits, a deposit over what Florida law contemplates without a milestone schedule, no written line item scope, and no verifiable local address. Any one of these is a reason to slow down. A legitimate contractor gives you time and documentation, not urgency.

Equipment yes, construction no. Under our Certified Pool/Spa Contractor license (CPC1460937) we replace pool pumps with variable speed models, install pool heat pumps, and repair or replace filters, salt systems, and controls. We do not build, resurface, or remodel pools, and we say that up front so nobody wastes a site visit. For solar pool heating, our sister company AllSolar Energy is the right call.

Yes, through our family of companies. Sunologi itself is the construction division, focused on remodeling, renovation, and outdoor building. Solar electric, solar pool heating, and solar hot water are handled by AllSolar Energy (serving Florida since 1999), and whole home water treatment is handled by SolarPure Water Systems. Call 407-890-0442 for any of it and we route you to the right team.

Someone from our Sanford office calls you back, usually the same business day, to talk through the project and schedule a site visit. After the visit you get a written line item estimate. No pressure calls and no fake limited time discounts; the price is the price, and it stands long enough for you to decide properly.