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Home renovation in Indianapolis

When the project is bigger than one trade, you should not have to hire five of them. We frame, wrap, roof, side and trim additions and whole-house exterior makeovers with our own crew, and we take on interior restoration too.

House with a large addition wrapped in house wrap and a pickup truck parked out front

One crew instead of a relay race

On a typical renovation, the framer leaves, the roofer shows up a week later, the siding company comes after that, and nobody owns the places where their work meets. Those seams are exactly where leaks start: the roof-to-wall joint on an addition, the corner where new siding butts old, the window that got flashed before the wrap went on instead of after.

Because we do roofs, siding, gutters, windows and doors ourselves, one company is responsible for every one of those seams. Sam Lynn has run projects like this since he started Exteriors Plus in 1995, and more than 3,000 jobs later, the way we plan a big exterior project is still the same: work from the structure out, and finish each layer before the next one covers it.

Crew on ladders working on a tall gable wall covered in house wrap
A gable wall rebuilt, sheathed and wrapped before siding.
House under exterior renovation with ladders on the gable and a work trailer in front
An exterior renovation in progress, trailer in the drive.

The kinds of projects we take on

Room additions

New rooms framed, sheathed, wrapped, roofed and sided so the addition looks like it was always part of the house. The roof tie-in is where additions go wrong, and it is the part we care most about. More on that on our new roof builds page.

Whole-house exterior makeovers

New roof, new siding, new gutters, new windows and wrapped trim in one project. Doing them together means each one is installed in the right order, and you get one estimate and one schedule instead of four.

Storm rebuilds

When a storm does more than lift shingles, the job becomes a rebuild. The EF-2 tornado near Bargersville on June 25, 2023 blew bricks off a large house and tore roofs in the Kensington Grove subdivision, according to the National Weather Service. Damage like that means framing and sheathing, not just shingles, and we document all of it for your insurance claim. See storm damage repair.

Interior restoration

Our truck says it: interior and exterior restoration and remodeling. When a roof leak has ruined a ceiling or a wall, we can repair the inside once the outside is fixed.

The order we build in

  • Structure first. Framing, headers and any rotted sheathing, before anything covers them.
  • Roof next. The house gets dried in from the top so the rest of the work stays dry.
  • Openings and wrap. Windows and doors go in and get flashed into the house wrap.
  • Siding, trim and gutters last. The finish layers go on over a wall that is already weathertight.

Additions need permits. New framing means plans and inspections in every jurisdiction we work in. Johnson County Planning and Zoning lists an average review time of about ten business days for a building permit, so we build that into the schedule from the start.

Renovation questions

Planning something bigger than a repair?

Tell us what you want the house to look like when it is done, and we will walk you through the order to get there.