Kitchen Remodeling in Hurst, TX

The kitchens that need the most help in Hurst are rarely the ones falling apart — they're the ones designed for a way of cooking no one does anymore. In the Bell-era brick ranches that fill the older core, the kitchen was walled off from the living space on purpose, a boxed-in room that made sense in 1965 and makes none today. Opening that room up and rebuilding the systems buried in its walls and slab is what turns a dated house on a proven street into one people actually use.

Opening the kitchen to the living space

The most requested change is taking down the wall between the kitchen and the living or dining room. In a mid-century Hurst ranch that wall is very often load-bearing — carrying roof load, not just dividing rooms — so it can't simply come out. Removing it means an engineered beam and header sized to the span, dropped into the ceiling or carried down to a new footing. That structural work triggers its own permit and inspection, and it's the part of a kitchen remodel most often botched by someone treating it as cosmetic.

Moving the plumbing, gas, and electrical

The moment the sink, range, or refrigerator moves — and in an opened-up plan they almost always do — a kitchen remodel becomes a trades project, not a finish one. Relocating a sink means re-running supply and re-routing the drain to keep proper fall; moving a gas range means a licensed plumber re-piping and pressure-testing the line; an island cooktop pulls gas and power into the middle of the room. These older homes routinely hide undersized panels and original wiring. Each move is permitted work under the state-licensed electrical and plumbing trades, sequenced so rough-ins pass before anything closes up.

Cabinets, counters, and code

Once the bones are set, the room goes back together in an order only one team can hold: cabinets set dead-level before stone is templated, counters cut to the installed boxes, then backsplash tiled so the reveals line up. A modern kitchen also carries code the original room never met — dedicated small-appliance and GFCI counter circuits, a dishwasher and disposal circuit, a heavy line for an electric range, and a hood ducted to the exterior. Quiet work a buyer never sees but an inspector always checks.

The Hurst permit path

A kitchen remodel of this depth is filed through Hurst's Tyler EnerGov Citizen Self-Service portal (css.hursttx.gov), with plans as PDFs and inspections through Community Development's Building Inspections at 1505 Precinct Line Road. Hurst no longer requires annual contractor registration; instead each contractor is added under the application's "Contacts" tab with a U.S.-issued ID and general-liability insurance certificate, and the state-licensed electrical, plumbing, and mechanical trades attach their trade licenses — so the whole crew is documented before the permit issues.

Working with The Remo Guys

We've run kitchens as one design-build team since 2019 — insured and bonded, based in Allen about 40 miles east, accountable for how the whole room comes back together across the metroplex. Building Inspections answers at 817-788-7088.