General contractor serving Harrisburg, PA
We are based in Middletown, roughly ten miles southeast down the river, and we are in Harrisburg most weeks of the year — Midtown kitchens, Allison Hill bathrooms, porch rebuilds on the city blocks and additions out in the townships.
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- Family owned and operated
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Close enough to be there before eight
Harrisburg is not a market we drive to; it is the city ten minutes up Route 230 from our own front door. That distance decides real things. A crew that sleeps in Dauphin County starts on site at seven-thirty instead of nine. A forgotten fitting is a twenty-minute round trip, not a lost afternoon. And if something goes wrong the week after we finish, someone is back at the house the same day.
We work the whole city and the ring around it: Midtown, Uptown, Allison Hill, Bellevue Park, Shipoke and Paxtang inside and along the city line, Penbrook, Susquehanna Township, Colonial Park and Linglestown to the north and east, and Camp Hill, Lemoyne and Mechanicsburg across the bridges on the West Shore.
Where the work usually is
- Midtown and Uptown — rowhome kitchens, baths and plaster
- Allison Hill — full interior renovations and rentals brought back
- Shipoke — tight-lot work with river-adjacent moisture detailing
- Bellevue Park — older homes, careful trim and millwork matching
- Susquehanna Twp. & Colonial Park — mid-century ranch remodels
- Linglestown & Lower Paxton — additions and finished basements
- Camp Hill, Lemoyne, Mechanicsburg — kitchens, baths, exteriors
The neighborhoods we work in
Drawn by hand, not surveyed. The river runs down the west side, the city sits east of it, and the shop is the amber pin — about ten miles and twenty minutes southeast.
Everything on this map is a normal day for us. Nothing on it carries a travel charge.
What Harrisburg houses actually hand you
Harrisburg is an old housing stock and a mixed one. Midtown and Shipoke are largely brick rowhomes and twins from the 1890s to the 1920s; Uptown and Allison Hill are the same era with more porches and more deferred maintenance; Bellevue Park is early-century detached homes with good bones and original woodwork. North and east of the city line, the stock flips to mid-century — ranches, splits and Cape Cods in Susquehanna Township and Colonial Park. Each of those brings a predictable set of conditions, and pricing a remodel here means expecting them rather than discovering them.
Knob-and-tube wiring and undersized panels
Common in Midtown, Uptown and Allison Hill homes that were never fully rewired. A 60- or 100-amp panel will not carry a modern kitchen, so a service upgrade is often the first line on the estimate rather than a surprise in week three.
Plaster and lath, not drywall
Plaster over wood lath is thicker than drywall and cracks along the lath when you cut into it. We patch to plaster rather than skimming over it, and we plan for the extra depth at new door casings and window returns.
Cast iron waste stacks
Original stacks in pre-war city homes are often scaled shut or rusted at the hub. If a kitchen or bath is moving, we scope the stack first, because tying new PVC into failing cast iron is how a finished bathroom gets opened back up.
Non-standard openings
Door and window openings in early-1900s brick are rarely a catalog size. Nothing is stock: casings, jamb extensions and window units get measured on site and ordered to fit, which affects lead times more than it affects price.
Party walls in rowhomes
You share structure with your neighbours. Anything that touches the party wall — a beam pocket, a bath on that wall, a chase for new plumbing — gets planned so loads stay on your side and noise transfer does not get worse.
Mid-century township stock
Susquehanna Township, Colonial Park and Linglestown ranches and splits from the 1950s to 1970s are simpler: sound framing, open basements, but small kitchens, one bathroom and original single-pane windows. Those remodel fast and predictably.
None of this is a reason to avoid an old city house. It is a reason to have a contractor who has already opened twenty of them. Our written scope names which of these conditions we expect at your address and what we will do if we find another one behind the plaster.
City permits versus township permits
Which office reviews your project depends entirely on which side of the city line the house sits on. Inside Harrisburg, permits go through the city's own codes and permitting office, and city inspectors do the inspections. Step over the line into Susquehanna Township, Lower Paxton, Swatara, Paxtang or Penbrook and the same work is reviewed under the Pennsylvania UCC by that township's third-party agency, on its own fee schedule and its own turnaround.
We file either one. You sign the application as the owner; we prepare the drawings and scope, submit, track it, and meet every inspector on site.
What usually needs a permit
- Moving or adding plumbing or electrical circuits
- Removing or altering a load-bearing or party wall
- Any addition, deck, porch roof or structural change
- Finishing a basement or adding a bedroom (egress rules apply)
- Service and panel upgrades — always, by the electrician
Finishes on their own — paint, flooring, trim, cabinets in the same layout — normally do not. We tell you which category your project is in on the first visit.
What we do in Harrisburg
The same six trades we run everywhere, with the city's particular conditions built into the price.
kitchen remodeling in Harrisburg
Rowhome galley kitchens opened into the dining room, and full gut remodels in Susquehanna Township ranches. Old kitchens here usually need the panel and the waste stack addressed before a single cabinet is ordered.
bathroom remodeling in Harrisburg
Second-floor hall baths in brick twins, tub-to-shower conversions for homeowners staying put, and the tight 5x8 footprint that nearly every pre-war city bathroom shares.
home additions
Rear bump-outs, kitchen extensions and in-law suites in the townships, where lot coverage and setbacks decide what is possible before design starts. City lots rarely have the room; we will tell you early.
interior renovations and whole-home remodels
Plaster repair, floors, trim and millwork matched to what is already there, walls opened with an engineered beam, and basements finished so a stone foundation can still dry.
decks, porches and exterior work
Rebuilt front porches and porch roofs on city blocks, rear decks in Bellevue Park and Paxtang, plus siding, windows and doors on the West Shore.
commercial general contracting
Tenant fit-outs, office and retail build-outs and ADA upgrades downtown and along the Route 22 corridor, phased around business hours.
Recent Harrisburg-area projects
We would rather show you three real addresses than invent a gallery. Photographs and scopes from finished Harrisburg jobs are being collected now and will appear here as they are ready.
In the meantime, ask on the phone. We will tell you what we have done nearest to your street, what it cost in the ballpark, and — if you want — put you in touch with the homeowner.
Harrisburg questions
- Do you charge for travel to Harrisburg?
- No. Harrisburg is inside our normal working radius — about ten miles and twenty minutes from the shop in Middletown. There is no mobilization fee, no mileage line, and no minimum job size beyond what we would ask for work in our own borough.
- Do you pull City of Harrisburg permits?
- Yes. City work is permitted through Harrisburg's own codes office, and we file it, schedule the inspections and meet the inspector on site. Outside the city line — Susquehanna Township, Lower Paxton, Swatara, Paxtang, Penbrook — the same work goes through that township's third-party UCC agency. We handle either.
- Do you work on rowhomes?
- Regularly. Rowhomes in Midtown, Uptown, Allison Hill and Shipoke are most of our city work. They come with party walls, shared framing, narrow stairs and no side access, so the schedule and the material plan are different from a suburban ranch — we price them that way from the start.
- How soon can you get out for an estimate?
- Usually inside a week for Harrisburg addresses, and often the same week you call. We measure, photograph and talk through scope on that first visit, then the written estimate follows in a few days. Estimates are free and there is no obligation attached to them.
- Do you work in Susquehanna Township and Lower Paxton?
- Yes, along with Colonial Park, Linglestown, Progress and Paxtang, plus Camp Hill, Lemoyne and Mechanicsburg across the river. Those addresses are ten to twenty minutes from Harrisburg proper, so they run on the same crew and the same schedule as city jobs.
We're twenty minutes from your front door.
Send us the Harrisburg address and what you're thinking about, and we'll come measure it this week.