The answer depends on what is decided before the work begins
It’s the second question all clients ask — right after the quote. And the honest answer is: it depends on what is decided before the work begins.
The work is only the final phase
In an apartment in Lisbon, a complete renovation usually takes between three and five months of work. But the work is the final phase. Before that, there is surveying, design, choice of materials, licensing when applicable, and coordination of all specialties.
What makes deadlines slip are postponed decisions
What makes deadlines slip is almost never the construction. It’s the postponed decisions: the material that hasn’t been chosen yet, the change requested halfway through, the supplier confirmed too late.
A deadline is met on paper
That’s why we work the other way around. We finalize everything in the design — layout, materials, budget, schedule — so that when the work begins, all that’s left is execution. A deadline is met on paper, months before anyone picks up a hammer.
