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Staten Island

General contractor on Staten Island

Renovation, painting, kitchens and bathrooms for Staten Island houses, where the driveway is the loading bay and the basement is usually part of the job.

  • Licensed and insured LICENSED AND INSURED
  • Staten Island houses STATEN ISLAND HOUSES
  • Priced from a written scope PRICED FROM A WRITTEN SCOPE
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We are a general contractor working on Staten Island houses.

Almost everything here is detached or semi detached, and that changes how a job runs more than most people expect. There is no board to satisfy, no service elevator to book, and nobody on the other side of the wall. There is a driveway, which means material is delivered to the house and staged where the work is, and there is usually a basement, an attic and more room than an apartment of the same price.

Call (929) 990-2851 and describe the house. We will tell you what it involves.

A construction container standing on a driveway beside a house, with boards laid to protect the surface under it
A clean unfinished basement wall and slab with a newly framed stud partition standing against it

What we take on

Every one of these happens inside a building with its own rules, and the building shapes the job.

Not sure whether the basement or the back of the house is the better place to start? A short call usually settles it.

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What is different about working out here

The driveway changes the schedule. Material comes to the house and debris leaves in a container rather than in bags down a stair. That takes days out of the messy phases of a job, and it is the single biggest reason the same work runs faster here than across the bridge.

Basements are part of the house. Finishing, refinishing or repairing one is ordinary work on Staten Island and rare in most of the city. What decides it is moisture: what the walls and the slab are doing before anything gets built against them.

You keep living here. A detached house usually has somewhere to retreat to, so the work can usually run with the family in place. We seal the work area, keep one route in and out, and the rest of the house stays yours.

Nobody has to approve it but the city. No alteration agreement, no board package, no managing agent. Where a permit is needed we file for it, and for most work that is the whole of the approval chain.

How a job runs

  1. A call

    Tell us the house and what you want done. Ten minutes usually tells us both whether it is a job for us.

  2. A visit

    We come and look, measure, check what we can see behind the walls, and look at where material can be staged.

  3. A written scope and price

    Broken into parts, so you can see what each one costs and change it before anything is ordered.

  4. Permits, where they apply

    Filed before the first day of work rather than during it.

  5. The work

    A start date, a sequence, and one person you call when you have a question.

Not sure whether the basement or the back of the house is the better place to start? A short call usually settles it.

Call for an estimate

Questions people ask before they call

Do I need a permit to renovate my house on Staten Island?

Cosmetic work usually does not. Moving walls, plumbing or electrical usually does, and finishing a basement almost always does, because it changes what the space is legally used for. We tell you which applies at the visit, and we do not start permit work before the permit exists.

Can you finish my basement?

Usually. The question is never the finish, it is the moisture: what the walls and slab are doing, and whether there is a route for water that has to be dealt with first. We look at that before quoting anything you would put against the wall.

Can we stay in the house while you work?

Usually, yes. A detached house gives you somewhere to be that the work is not, which is the thing an apartment cannot offer. A whole house gut is the exception and we will say so plainly.

Talk it through

Tell us the apartment and the building, and we will tell you what the work involves.

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