Sometimes the answer is more square footage. Sometimes the square footage is already there and it is being used wrong. Both are the same conversation until somebody measures.
We handle the structural side and the approval side. Right now we are converting two commercial properties into nine apartments, a $550,000 project.
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Most people call about one and end up doing the other. The right answer depends on the structure, the lot, and what the town will approve.
Building out or up to add real square footage. Foundation, framing, roof tie-in, and the systems to serve it, finished to match the rest of the house.
Turning commercial space into apartments or living space. This is the one we are in the middle of right now, two properties becoming nine units.
Splitting a house into separate units with the walls, systems, and separate utilities each unit needs to stand on its own.
Basements, attics, and garages that are already under the roof and are not counted as living space yet. Usually the cheapest square footage you own.
Adding a self-contained unit for family or for income. Kitchen, bath, egress, and the mechanicals to support a second household.
Moving structure so the rooms land where they should. Sometimes you do not need more space, you need the space you have to stop fighting you.
An addition or a conversion is not just a build. It is a build the town has to sign off on, and that is where these projects usually stall.
Aerial measurement, then we walk it. What the structure will carry and what the lot allows are the two questions that decide everything after.
Blueprints get read in house. You are not paying us to learn the drawings on your job.
We work directly with planners, zoning, and building officials. On a Lisbon property we sat with all three to bring a vacant building back.
We pull them and we book the inspections. It does not get handed back to you as a to-do list.
Framing, and the mechanical, plumbing, and electrical to serve new space. Separate utilities where a unit needs to stand alone.
New space that reads like it was always there, not like something bolted onto the back of the house.
A $550,000 conversion currently in progress, taking two commercial properties and turning them into nine residential units. Structure, systems, separate utilities, and the approvals to make all of it legal.
That is the scale of conversion we are set up for. If yours is a basement apartment instead, that is the same crew and the same process, just fewer units at the end of it.
We work with condo associations and private investors as often as we work with homeowners, so a project with a board or a partnership behind it is not a new conversation here.
We work a thirty mile circle out of Gales Ferry. Approvals move at the speed of the town office, and being local means we can be in front of a building official the same week instead of scheduling a trip around it.
We know the towns out here, and out here that matters more than it should.
Sitting just outside the line? Ask anyway. The answer is usually yes.