Replace Your Backsplash — Farmington, Connecticut

The fear with any replacement is the unknown behind the tile — and in Farmington stock that fear is sometimes justified. Farmington splits sharply. Around historic Farmington Village and Unionville you have 18th- and 19th-century houses where nothing is square and the walls may be plaster over lath. Out toward the newer subdivisions the kitchens are large, open, and built to showcase materials. We open with eyes open: the quote includes a defined wall-repair allowance with unit pricing beyond it, agreed before demo, so the arithmetic never becomes a hostage negotiation mid-job.

The Farmington picture: Farmington is the most contested market in the cluster — established remodeling firms with showrooms and designers. The opening is specialization and honesty on price rather than a general 'we do everything' pitch. Farmington homeowners routinely get handed a vague 'allowance' instead of a fixed tile price. A written fixed number, with the tile named, wins work here.

What we protect

• Counters: masked and padded; nothing dragged across stone or laminate
• Cabinets: faces taped, interiors stay clean
• Appliances: range pulled and reset carefully, or worked around by agreement
• Air: dust barriers and cleanup between phases, not just at the end

See repair if only part of the wall has failed — replacement is not always the answer.