About us
A Crystal Lake remodeling company, run by Tim.
Level Best Remodeling takes on a limited number of projects at a time. Tim does your consultation, writes your proposal, schedules the trades, and walks the finished job with you. One person, start to finish, which is the whole point.
Owner
Tim got tired of hiring remodelers.
Tim grew up in his father's home-services business, which is a polite way of saying he was carrying equipment into other people's houses before he could drive. He has worked in home services ever since. Before this he started and ran three companies of his own — a restoration company, a carpet cleaning company, and a house-flipping company. All three were franchises. That is exactly why this one isn't.
The flipping is the part that matters here. For years he bought houses, remodeled them, and sold them. That meant hiring remodeling crews with his own money, on his own schedule, and then walking the finished work as the man holding the invoice. You learn fast that way. You learn which trades show up, which ones price honestly, which ones quietly skip the waterproofing, and how much a contractor who disappears for two weeks costs you.
He kept the crews that were worth keeping. Those are the people who work on your house. Tim isn't the one setting your tile and we're not going to pretend he is — the person tiling your shower tiles showers for a living, and licensed plumbers and electricians do the plumbing and the electrical. What Tim does is the part that actually goes wrong on most remodels: scoping it honestly, pricing it properly, sequencing the trades so they aren't tripping over each other, and being the one person you call.
Level Best Remodelingis new. Tim isn't new to any of this, but the company is, and you should know that before you call rather than after. What we have instead of a long customer list is 9 houses we remodeled and the photographs to prove it, published prices, and a proposal you can take to another contractor and compare line by line.
What we are
- A remodeling company, owner-run and owner-operated
- Not a franchise — one owner, one standard, nobody between you and him
- Permit pullers — we file, and we schedule the inspections
- A small shop that runs a limited number of projects at once
- Based in Crystal Lake and working within about 30 minutes of it
What we're not
Our smallest projects start around $15,000. Below that, someone else will serve you better and charge you less — and we'll say so on the first call instead of sending someone out.
- Single repairs and punch lists. Drywall patches, a sticking door, a TV to mount, a few bad deck boards. We're a remodeling company — there's no crew to send for a two-hour visit.
- Service calls. A running toilet or a dead outlet needs a plumber or an electrician, not a remodeler. Call one directly and you'll pay less.
- Insurance restoration. We don't run fire, flood, or storm claims. Those jobs are built around the adjuster's number instead of yours, and that isn't how we work.
- Supply-only or labor-only. We don't install cabinets or tile someone else bought and we don't sell materials. We warranty complete work, which means we have to control all of it.
Why we're called Level Best Remodeling.
Look at the logo. The bubble sits dead centre between the two marks, which is the one thing a level is for and the one thing it will not lie about. The parts of a remodel you'll never see decide how long the parts you do see will last — the waterproofing behind the tile, the beam that replaced the wall, the footing under the deck post. Anyone can make a room look finished for a year.
We'd rather build the one that's still right in twenty.
See how we run a projectFree consultation
Get a free consultation with Tim.
Tell us what you're thinking about and roughly what you're hoping to spend. You'll get a straight answer on that first call.