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Home Remodel Cost in Boulder County (unincorporated), CO: what the permits say

Data through April 2026 · updated 20 Oct 2026

How much does home remodel cost in Boulder County? The usual remodel & repair job filed with Boulder County is $27,000, from 425 priced permits (May 2023 through April 2026); the middle half of firms file between $15,719 and $80,000. A filed value is what the contractor wrote on the permit, not a quote or the final bill.

$27,000usual filed value
$15,719–$80,000middle half of firms' usual jobs
425priced permits (95% of 446)
248firms on file
190days, permit issue to final
Apr 2026records through

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How much does home remodel cost in Boulder County?

The usual remodel & repair job filed with Boulder County is $27,000, from 425 priced permits, May 2023 through April 2026. The middle half of firms usually file between $15,719 and $80,000. Half of jobs were filed for less, half for more. A filed value is what the contractor wrote on the permit, not a quote or the final bill. A remodel & repair permit here usually takes 190 days from issue to final inspection. How long permits take →

What the spread looks like

Approximately, from each firm's own spread: every firm's range of filed values, weighted by its 425 priced permits across 243 firms, pooled into one. Half of Boulder County (unincorporated) remodel & repair permits were filed between $9,700 and $79,800.

PercentileFiled valueReads as
10th$3,7001 in 10 permits filed below
25th$9,7001 in 4 filed below
50th$29,600the middle permit
75th$79,8001 in 4 filed above
90th$179,0001 in 10 filed above

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By home value

Firms split into thirds by the usual value of the homes they work on, with each third's usual filed value weighted by permits. Home values: Boulder County Assessor 2026 actual values.

Firms working onUsual home valueUsual filed valueFirmsPermits
Lower thirdunder $1,060,450$20,10081144
Middle third$1,060,450–$1,627,900$19,99581180
Upper third$1,640,400 and up$39,60081117

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Busiest firms and what they usually charge

Top 10 by permits in the last 12 months on file (May 2025–Apr 2026). Usual is each firm's middle filed value; middle half is the range its middle half of jobs were filed in; both are shown for firms with 5 or more priced permits. Busy is not the same as careful: pick what you value to build a list.

FirmPermitsLast 12 moUsualMiddle halfFinished
Groundworks Colorado LLC3613$15,719$8,765–$26,26882.6%
Melton Design Build214$65,290$46,620–$114,84591.6%
Vivid Homes44———
DBS Inc dba Colorado Structural Repair113$7,707$6,262–$13,7509 of 9
Thrasher Inc83$19,516$9,775–$38,881—
Elkstone Inc43———
Bath Tune-Up33———
Dun-Rite Home Improvements52$37,000$26,750–$40,000—
Pinnacle Structural Services52$9,150$7,350–$10,000—
A2Z Builders42———

Why filed values run low or high

  • The 10 busiest firms usually file $15,719; the 239 firms with fewer than 10 permits usually file $30,000.
  • Firms working on the most expensive third of homes (usual home value $1,640,400 and up) usually file $39,600, against $20,100 for the least expensive third.
  • One permit type covers small and large jobs: 1 in 10 remodel & repair permits is filed under $3,700 and 1 in 10 over $179,000, 49 times as much.
  • 95.3% of the 446 permits carry a value; the 21 without one are left out of every figure here.

Is your quote normal? Compare it with 425 filed values

Line your quote up against the file. In Boulder County (unincorporated), 1 in 10 remodel & repair filed values sit under $3,700, the middle half between $9,700 and $79,800, and 1 in 10 over $179,000.

  • $233,000Above $179,000: higher than 9 in 10 filed values for this work in Boulder County (unincorporated).
  • $27,000Right at the usual $27,000: in the middle of the file.
  • $2,600Below $3,700: lower than 9 in 10. Ask what the quote leaves out.

When to schedule a home remodel in Boulder County

Boulder County files the fewest remodel & repair permits in February (62 against an average month of 100) and the most in April (131). If you can choose, ask for quotes in a quiet month. We have no prices by month, so this is about crews' schedules, not a discount. When each trade is busiest in Boulder County →

How these numbers are made

Source: Boulder County Community Planning & Permitting building permits on homes in unincorporated Boulder County (the County's Accela permit layer, which stopped taking new applications on May 4, 2026, so the data ends with April 2026; the City of Boulder and the other cities issue their own permits), with issue dates and declared job values from the Boulder County Assessor's permit file. The window is May 2023 through April 2026; a permit filed after that isn't here yet.

Usual is the middle permit: half were filed for less, half for more. Only permits with a filed value count; a value of $0 or none is left out.

The spread is approximate: we keep seven points of each firm's own range of filed values, not every permit, and pool them.

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Contractor Records, "Home Remodel Cost in Boulder County (unincorporated), CO: what the permits say", https://contractorrecords.com/boulder-county/remodel-cost, data through April 2026, from Boulder County building-permit records.

Link to a table: The spread · By home value · Busiest firms.

Download the tables (CSV): Key figures · By home value.

How Boulder County compares with other cities

From our cross-city data studies: the same measure, read the same way, for every city we cover.

Common questions

  • How many quotes should I get for a remodel & repair job in Boulder County (unincorporated)?At least three. In the permit record the middle half of Boulder County (unincorporated) remodel & repair firms usually file between $15,719 and $80,000 a job, so two ordinary firms can sit 5.1 times apart and both be normal for Boulder County (unincorporated). A third quote shows which one is the outlier. Filed values are what contractors wrote on permits, not quotes, so use them to judge the spread, not to price your own job.
  • What range is normal for remodel & repair jobs in Boulder County (unincorporated)?Half of permits were filed between $9,700 and $79,800; 8 in 10 between $3,700 and $179,000. These are approximate, pooled from each firm's own spread.
  • How much do remodeling contractors charge in Boulder County?The usual remodel & repair job is filed at $27,000; the middle half of firms usually file between $15,719 and $80,000. The 10 firms with the most permits in the last 12 months on file (May 2025–Apr 2026) usually file $15,719, less than the usual. See every firm's usual job →
  • Why do prices I see online differ from $27,000?$27,000 is the construction value contractors wrote on Boulder County permits. Online figures are usually all-in ranges whose scope you can't check (design, fees, site work), and our file mixes small and large jobs of this type in one number. Use the spread above to see where a quote sits.
  • Do bigger houses get bigger bills?In the file, yes for the firms: those working on the upper third of homes by value usually file $39,600, the lower third $20,100. That is firms, not single jobs.
  • Where does this data come from?Boulder County Community Planning & Permitting building permits on homes in unincorporated Boulder County (the County's Accela permit layer, which stopped taking new applications on May 4, 2026, so the data ends with April 2026; the City of Boulder and the other cities issue their own permits), with issue dates and declared job values from the Boulder County Assessor's permit file, read October 2026. How the records work in Boulder County (unincorporated) →

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