- 16493 Bodman Rd Mt. Orab, OH 45154
- info@empirehome.solutions
- Deck Division: 513-513-DECK(3325)
- Office: (513) 773-1567
General Contracting in Cincinnati & Hamilton, Ohio
Empire Home Solutions provides general contracting services for Cincinnati and Hamilton County homeowners tackling multi-trade projects. As your general contractor, we manage every trade under one company, one contract, and one warranty. So you never personally schedule five specialty crews and hope they coordinate. Instead, one team owns the sequence, the permits, and the outcome. Because we self-perform our core trades, that accountability is real, not outsourced. As a result, your whole project carries our lifetime craftsmanship warranty. In short, you get a single point of contact from first plan to final walkthrough.
By Chris Kestel, Founder & Owner · Last Updated August 2026
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Signs You Need a General Contractor, Not Separate Hires
Some projects are simple enough to hire out one trade at a time. Others are not. Here is when a general contractor earns its keep.
- Your project spans multiple trades. Framing, electrical, plumbing, and finish work must happen in a strict order. Get that sequence wrong, and you pay in delays and rework.
- You don’t want to play scheduler. Someone has to ensure the electrician follows framing but precedes drywall. That coordination is a full-time job.
- You want one company accountable. When an issue appears at the seam between two trades, five separate contractors tend to point at each other.
- You want one permit process. Multi-trade work often needs structural, electrical, and plumbing permits. Coordinating those yourself is its own project.
- You want one warranty. A single warranty beats a patchwork of terms and expiration dates from different companies.
- Sequencing genuinely matters. Additions, whole-house remodels, and any job where trades share space all qualify.
Recognize your project here? Let one team hold it together.
Our General Contracting Process
We keep a complex, multi-trade job organized from day one. Here is how it runs.
1. Project Scope Consultation
First, we assess the full project, identify every trade involved, and map the sequence before anything gets scheduled.
2. Design & Trade Coordination
Next, we align design decisions across trades. That way, later phases never undo earlier ones.
3. Permit Submittal
Then we run one coordinated permit process covering every required trade and inspection for your project.
4. Fixed-Price Contract
After that, you get one written number for the full multi-trade scope. No stacked estimates from separate companies.
5. Managed Construction & Final Walkthrough
Finally, we oversee each trade throughout, ending in one walkthrough covering everything, not a separate sign-off per contractor.
Multi-Trade Project Management
We coordinate framing, electrical, plumbing, roofing, and finish trades under one plan. Consequently, sequencing is deliberate, not left to chance.
Permit Submittal & Inspection Coordination
We manage every permit as one coordinated process, including scheduling the inspections each phase requires.
Subcontractor Scheduling & Sequencing
We make sure each trade arrives in the right order. As a result, nobody waits on, or works over, a phase that is not ready.
Single-Point Quality Control
One team reviews quality across every trade. Therefore, no piece of the job is accountable only to itself.
Budget & Fixed-Price Contract Management
You get one project budget and one fixed-price contract. Rather than negotiating change orders with several companies, you deal with us.
Warranty Consolidation
One workmanship warranty covers the entire project, no matter how many trades were involved.
Brands We Build With
Real Accountability
We self-perform our core trades, so "we'll handle it" is not just coordination talk.
Fully Insured & Bonded
One policy covers the entire project, so you never track separate coverage from multiple hires.
Consistent Material Standards
We enforce the same quality across every trade, not whatever each specialty crew defaults to.
One Consolidated Warranty
The full project carries our lifetime craftsmanship warranty, not a patchwork of terms.
Fixed-Price Certainty
One written contract sets the cost up front, instead of change orders stacking at poorly coordinated seams.
Permits Handled Once
We manage all permits as a single process under Hamilton, Butler, Warren, and Clermont County code.
General Contracting Service Area
We provide general contracting services throughout Cincinnati, Hamilton, Mason, Loveland, and Batavia, plus the surrounding Butler, Warren, and Clermont County communities. Because multi-trade projects hinge on local permit knowledge, our familiarity with each county’s process keeps your job moving.
General Contracting FAQs
What does a general contractor actually do?
A general contractor takes responsibility for coordinating every trade, managing the schedule and sequence, handling permits, and standing behind the whole project under one warranty. Hiring trades separately means you personally manage all of that, and you absorb the risk when work fails at the seam between two crews.
How do general contractors charge?
Most projects use either a fixed-price contract, meaning one agreed total for a defined scope, or a cost-plus arrangement, meaning actual costs plus a management fee. We work primarily on fixed-price contracts, because a firm number up front beats an open-ended structure.
Who's responsible if something goes wrong on a multi-trade project?
As your general contractor, we are, regardless of which trade’s work is involved. That single point of accountability is the core reason to hire a GC instead of juggling separate contractors, where responsibility blurs at the intersection of two trades.
Do you self-perform the work or subcontract it?
Both. We use in-house crews for our core trades, including framing, decks, roofing, and finish carpentry, and we coordinate vetted specialty subs for trades outside that core. Either way, we remain the single point of accountability.
What kinds of projects actually need a general contractor?
Anything multi-trade: home additions, whole-house remodels, and projects where several trades touch the same space in sequence. Single-trade jobs, like a one-room flooring swap, usually do not.
Are you licensed, insured, and bonded as a general contractor?
Yes. We are fully insured and bonded, hold an A+ BBB rating, and pull the required permits for every project we manage.
Tired of Coordinating Five Contractors Yourself? Let One Company Own the Whole Project.
The hardest part of a multi-trade project usually is not any single trade’s work. It is making the trades happen in the right order, to the right standard, without you holding it all together. That is exactly what a general contractor is for.
Call (513) 773-1567 for a general contracting consultation, or send your details online and we will schedule a visit.