The same team draws your plans and builds them, so nothing gets lost in the handoff between an architect and a builder. Homes only, across Orlando and Central Florida.
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Global Arch Construction is a residential general contractor based in Orlando. We build and remodel homes across Central Florida and have been doing it here for over a decade. A kitchen a family cooks in every night is a different job from a commercial space on a five-year lease, and homes are what we have spent our time on.
Design-build means you hire one company for the whole project. We produce the drawings, pull the permits, hire and schedule the trades, and stay responsible for the result. The traditional route leaves you in the middle of it: you pay a designer, take the finished plans out to bid, and then referee the argument when a builder tells you the drawings will not work at that price. If something in the design costs more to build than we estimated, solving it is our problem.
What we build
Every service below is residential. Click through for detail, or call and describe what you are dealing with and we will tell you whether it is our kind of job.
Single-family homes on your lot, from the first site plan through the certificate of occupancy. That covers survey review, structural drawings, permit submittal to Orange County or your city, and every trade after that. In Central Florida, design and permitting usually takes three to six months, and construction another ten to sixteen once the permit is issued. We will tell you at the start which of those two numbers your lot is going to stretch.
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Kitchens, bathrooms, additions, and whole-house renovations. In the Orlando market a mid-range kitchen remodel generally lands between $20,000 and $50,000, and a full bathroom between $15,000 and $35,000, with plumbing relocation being the line that moves the number most. You get a line-item estimate before demolition starts so you can see where the money goes.
Remodeling
Tile, luxury vinyl plank, hardwood, and engineered wood. Most Central Florida homes sit on a concrete slab, so moisture testing and leveling matter more here than the material you pick. We handle subfloor prep, transitions, and baseboard as part of the job.
Flooring
Impact-rated windows and exterior doors installed to current Florida Building Code, permit and inspection included. Swapping windows into existing openings is usually a one or two day job for a whole house. Cutting a new opening needs structural review first, which adds time.
Windows & doors
Cabinets built to your actual dimensions instead of ordered in stock sizes, which matters in older Orlando homes where the walls are rarely square. Kitchens, vanities, laundry rooms, built-in shelving, and closets.
Custom cabinets
Floor tile, shower surrounds, backsplashes, and outdoor patios. Wet areas get proper waterproofing behind the tile. That is the part nobody sees, and it is the part that fails first when someone skips it.
Tile installation
Repair after a burst supply line, a roof leak, or a failed water heater. We dry the structure, remove what cannot be saved, and rebuild the drywall, flooring, cabinets, and paint. We can also document the damage in writing for your insurance claim.
Water damage
Shingle, metal, and flat roof replacement and repair, permitted and inspected. An asphalt shingle roof in Central Florida typically gives you 15 to 20 years rather than the number on the warranty, because of UV exposure and storm load.
Roofing
Interior and exterior repaints, including pressure washing, stucco patching, caulking, and primer. Florida sun and afternoon rain are hard on exterior paint, so houses here generally need repainting every five to seven years instead of the ten you might get further north.
Painting
Fiber cement, vinyl, and wood siding, plus repair of individual damaged sections. We check the sheathing and house wrap behind the old siding before new material goes up, because that is usually where the rot has been hiding.
SidingRepairs after hurricanes and severe thunderstorms: roof, windows, siding, soffit, fencing, and interior water intrusion. We can meet your adjuster on site and hand over a written scope of work.
Storm damageBlock work, brick, stone veneer, retaining walls, driveways, walkways, and paver patios. We also repair cracked and settling concrete, which in this area is often a drainage problem before it is a concrete problem.
MasonryFascia, soffit, window trim, door frames, and structural framing that has gone soft from long-term moisture. We find where the water is getting in and fix that first. Otherwise the new wood rots too, just on a slower clock.
Dry rot repairReplacement and repair of air conditioning and heating systems, ductwork, and thermostats. Sizing matters more than brand in this climate. An oversized unit short-cycles, never runs long enough to pull humidity out of the air, and leaves you with a cold clammy house.
HVACRoof-mounted solar with the structural review, electrical permit, and utility interconnection paperwork handled. If your roof has fewer than ten years left in it, we will tell you to replace it first rather than pay twice to remove and reset the array later.
Solar panelsWhy us
You are not managing a designer and a builder separately, and you are not the person in the middle when they disagree. One signature, one schedule, one company answerable for the finished house.
Your house is not getting squeezed between commercial jobs. Alexandru Cosiuc built this company around home construction and remodeling, and that is still all we take on.
We submit through Orange County’s Fast Track portal or your city’s system and follow the review through to issuance, including any corrections. Residential plan review in Orange County typically runs 10 to 15 business days, and the Orlando metro averages roughly three to five weeks start to finish. You will hear from us during that wait rather than wondering.
You see the tile allowance, the cabinet allowance, and the labor separately. That way a change order is a conversation about one line instead of an argument about the whole price.
Alexandru walks the sites and answers questions himself. On a residential project that is worth more than any process document, because the person deciding is the person who saw the framing.
Humidity, UV, wind load, and slab-on-grade construction change the right answer on flooring, paint, roofing, and air conditioning. Contractors who learned the trade somewhere else tend to specify what worked there and find out later that Central Florida disagrees.
The process
Call or send the form. Straightforward remodels can often be quoted from a site visit. Larger work needs drawings first, and we will say which yours is on the first call.
We measure, look behind what we can open up, and hand you a written line-item number.
You approve the drawings and choose finishes against real allowances, so the budget stays honest instead of drifting.
We submit and handle corrections. Budget 10 to 15 business days for residential plan review in Orange County, longer if the plans need structural or engineering sign-off.
One project manager, a written schedule, and a walkthrough at the end where you list anything you want corrected before the final payment goes out.
One scheduling note worth knowing: book eight to twelve weeks ahead if you want a specific start date. October through February is the busiest stretch in Central Florida, when everyone wants work finished before the holidays and before winter visitors arrive.
Service area
Our office is in Orlando and most of our work sits inside an hour of it. Here is roughly what we see in each area.
Home base, off Sidney Hayes Rd in 32824 south of the airport. We work across the city, from the older bungalows in College Park and Colonialtown where nothing is square and every wall hides a surprise, to newer construction in Lake Nona and Hunter’s Creek where the work is more about finishes and additions.
Mostly kitchen and bath remodels in the older homes near downtown, plus additions and outdoor living space in the Horizon West subdivisions.
Hilly lots and a lot of housing stock from the 1990s and 2000s now hitting the age where the roof, the air conditioner, and the windows all come due within a couple of years of each other. We can sequence that so you are not paying for the same access twice.
Additions and whole-house remodels in town, and new custom builds on the larger acreage lots east of it. Osceola County permits through its own department, which we handle.
Work in the Bay Lake and Lake Buena Vista area, including vacation and short-term rental properties where the real constraint is finishing between bookings. Tell us your blackout dates first and we will build the schedule around them.
About 80 miles north of the office. Bigger lots, more ground-up custom home work, and outbuildings on horse property. Marion County permitting moves on its own timeline and we plan for that.
We take selected projects along the I-4 corridor into the Tampa area. Larger remodels and custom builds make the drive work better than small repairs, but call and ask about your address rather than assuming we are too far.
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FAQ
Yes. Global Arch Construction is a licensed and insured general contractor operating in Orlando and across Central Florida, and we carry the coverage required to pull permits and run inspections in Orange County and surrounding counties. We are happy to provide our license and insurance certificates before you sign anything, and you should ask any contractor for both.
In the traditional route you hire a designer, pay for finished plans, then take those plans out to contractors for pricing. If the bids come back over budget, you pay the designer again to revise. Design-build puts both under one contract with one company. We draw it and we build it, so the design gets priced as it develops rather than after. The practical difference for you is fewer handoffs, one point of accountability, and no situation where the designer blames the builder and the builder blames the designer while you wait.
No. We only work on residential projects: single-family homes, remodels, additions, and repairs. If you need commercial work, we would rather point you elsewhere than take a job outside what we do well.
Orlando, Winter Garden, Clermont, St. Cloud, Bay Lake, Ocala, and Tampa, plus most of the towns in between. Our office is in Orlando, so anything inside about an hour of it is routine. Ocala and Tampa are the outer edge, and we take larger projects there. Call with your address if you are not sure.
No. The site visit and the written line-item estimate are free. If your project needs full architectural drawings before anyone can price it accurately, we will tell you that on the first call and explain what the design phase costs before you commit to it.
In the Orlando market, mid-range kitchen remodels generally run $20,000 to $50,000, and full bathroom remodels $15,000 to $35,000. Smaller bathroom updates that keep the existing layout can come in under $15,000. The variables that move the number most are whether plumbing gets relocated, whether cabinets are stock or custom, and the finish level on tile and countertops. On resale value, a minor kitchen remodel recoups a high share of its cost in this market and bathroom remodels typically return 65 to 80 percent, though you should treat those as market averages rather than a promise about your house.
Usually, yes. Anything structural, electrical, plumbing, mechanical, roofing, or window and door replacement needs a permit in Orange County and the surrounding jurisdictions. Cosmetic work like painting or replacing flooring generally does not. Starting permitted work without the permit brings fines and a much harder time when you sell, because unpermitted work shows up in a title search. We pull the permits as part of the contract, so this is not something you have to figure out.
Eight to twelve weeks before your target start date if the date matters to you. October through February is the busiest stretch in Central Florida. If your timeline is flexible, the slower months give you better scheduling and often better subcontractor availability.
We can document the damage, write a detailed scope of work, and meet your adjuster on site so everyone is looking at the same thing. We are contractors, not public adjusters, so we do not negotiate your claim for you. What we can do is make sure the scope reflects what the repair actually takes rather than what fits a template.
Next step
Tell us what you want to build or fix. We will come look at it, put a written line-item number in front of you, and tell you honestly whether the project makes sense at that price. No charge and no pressure to sign on the spot.
