Remodeling Contractor in York, PA

York built things for a hundred years: pianos, barbells, dentures, air conditioners, and block after block of brick rowhomes for the people who made them. Those factory era streets in the Avenues, the East End and South York still hold some of the best housing value in central Pennsylvania. The houses have real bones: plaster over brick, oak and chestnut trim, deep front porches, and floor framing that has carried five generations without complaint. They also have plaster cracks, porch posts rotting at the base, and bathrooms that were shoehorned into former bedrooms sometime around Eisenhower. We drive 50 minutes from our shop in Denver because this housing stock is worth the trip. Structurally, a York rowhome is a first cousin to the ones we work on in Lancaster and Reading every month, so nothing behind your walls is going to surprise us. Disappoint us, occasionally. Surprise us, no.

Our most requested York projects follow the age of the houses. Bathroom remodels top the list, because a rowhome bath from 1962 owes nobody anything at this point. Plaster and drywall repair comes next: cracked ceilings, bulging walls, and the wavy patches left by whoever owned the place in the eighties. Then porches. A York front porch is half living room and half public statement, and we handle porch and step restoration from rebuilt stairs to new railings that finally meet code. Around York College and out into Spring Garden and Springettsbury townships the housing gets younger, and the work shifts with it: interior doors and trim, finished basements, and first serious remodels for houses built in the seventies and eighties. York was the first capital of the United States if you accept the Articles of Confederation argument, and plenty of locals will make that argument. We just fix the walls.

A word of honesty about older York houses: not every wall needs gutting, and not every quote you collect should start with a dumpster. Sound plaster can be repaired and skimmed for far less than a full tear out, and hundred year old trim is usually worth saving rather than replacing with something from a bin at the box store. We tell you which is which at the estimate, in plain numbers, and we put it in writing. One in-house crew does the work start to finish: demo, framing, drywall, tile, trim, paint. No waiting a week for the next subcontractor to return a call. York homeowners tend to be practical people with a sharp eye for value, which is our favorite kind of client and a big part of why we keep making the drive down Route 30.