Home Remodeling Contractors in Batavia, IL

A Remodeler That Owns the Part Nobody Sees

Taber Builders started in 1985 as a concrete contractor and still is one. On a remodel that matters more than it sounds. The parts of a job that go wrong expensively are almost always the parts underneath and behind everything else: a footing that was not carried deep enough, a slab poured on fill that was never compacted, a foundation wall that had already moved before anyone framed against it. Those are our own crews and our own equipment, not a subcontractor we met last month. When a remodel turns structural, and a fair number of them do once the walls are open, the people who handle it are the same people who have been pouring concrete in this valley for four decades.

That also means we will tell you when the structure is fine and the job is simpler than you feared. A contractor who only sells foundation work has a reason to find foundation problems. We would rather build the addition.

The Housing Stock Here Is Not One Thing

A remodel in downtown Geneva, St. Charles or Batavia is a different animal from one in a subdivision off Randall Road. The older homes near the river carry plaster over lath, electrical service sized for a different century, cast iron waste lines and framing cut to the spans of its era. Opening a wall there is rarely just opening a wall. The newer builds further out have the opposite profile: generous spans and engineered lumber, but builder-grade finishes that were the first thing value-engineered out, and mechanicals stacked wherever the plan found room.

Neither is a problem. They are different problems, and the estimate should say which one you have before anyone quotes a number. We have worked on both since long before the subdivisions were there.

What We Take On

Kitchens, bathrooms, home additions and finished basements, plus whole-house renovation and custom builds. We are a general contractor, so one company carries the project from the first measurement through the final inspection and one person stays reachable the whole way. There is no handoff to a project manager you have not met.

We also handle the permitting. Every village in the Fox Valley runs its own process, and the difference between Batavia, Geneva and unincorporated Kane County is real. It is our job to know that, not yours.

How the Estimate Actually Works

Someone comes out, measures the space properly and gives you a real number. Not a range, not a per-square-foot average pulled off a national calculator, and not a price that moves once the demolition starts and something predictable turns up. If the scope genuinely changes we tell you before we do the work, not after.

No obligation and no pressure, and you deal with Tom rather than a call centre.

More of What We Do

Most of our work is still concrete, and a lot of remodels end up touching both. If a driveway, patio or foundation repair is due around the same time as the inside work, doing them together costs less than separate mobilisations and the finishes match.

Kitchens · Bathrooms · Home Additions · Finished Basements · Custom Built Homes