What a realistic home renovation timeline looks like
A kitchen and bathroom remodel usually takes four to six months from first plan to final payment, and a big share of that happens before anyone picks up a hammer. This template runs about five months: roughly ten weeks of planning, hiring, permits, and ordering, then about eleven weeks from demolition to final payment.
The early weeks set the schedule. Cabinets and windows can take weeks or months to arrive, and permit review can run from a couple of weeks to a few months depending on your city. So the plan orders long-lead items the week you sign the contract, while the permit is still under review.
Construction follows the order most remodels share: demolition, rough-in for plumbing, wiring, and ducts, an inspection before the walls close, then drywall, paint, flooring, cabinets, countertops, and fixtures. If your contractor works in a different order, drag the bars to match it.
Why one late trade or delivery moves the whole renovation
A renovation is a chain of handoffs, and most trades can't start until the one before them finishes. Drywall waits on the rough-in inspection, the countertop fabricator can't measure until the cabinets are in, and the plumber can't set the faucet until the countertops are down. When one link slips, everything after it slips too.
Every task in this template is linked to the one it waits on. If the plumbing rough-in runs a week long, the inspection, drywall, paint, flooring, cabinets, countertops, and final walkthrough all move a week, and you see the new finish date that day instead of at the end.
Some links have slack. The cabinet order lands about 12 days before the crew needs it, and the window order about nine days before late windows would hold up drywall, so a short shipping delay costs nothing. A three-week delay on either one moves your finish date. Knowing which orders have slack tells you which supplier to call first.
How to adapt this renovation template to your project
Delete the tasks your scope doesn't need, relink what's left, and drag later phases back to close gaps. For a bathroom-only remodel, delete the cabinet and countertop tasks; the fixtures task already waits on the bathroom tile. For a kitchen only, delete the bathroom tile task. If no windows change, delete the window install.
If your area doesn't require a permit for your scope, delete the permit and inspection tasks, then link drywall to the three rough-in tasks and clearing the rooms to the signed contract. Ask your building department first.
If your contractor won't start demolition until the cabinets arrive, link demolition to the cabinet order to see what that costs.
Hours are set only on a few of your own tasks. In weeks four and five, quotes and finishes overlap and fill the Homeowner role's 10-hour weekly cap. To paint it yourself, assign painting to the Homeowner role and add your hours. EverGantt marks any task in a week that goes over.
Make it yours
Drag the first task to your real start date and everything linked to it moves along. Rename the roles to your people, then export a PNG, PDF, or SVG when you need to share it. No template fits? Start from a blank plan with the project schedule maker. Saving to the cloud starts at Pro; sharing with teammates is on Team and Business.
