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Fresh Meadows, Queens

General contractor in Queens

Renovation, painting, kitchens and bathrooms across Queens, where a co op, a two family house and a walk up on one street each run to different rules.

  • Licensed and insured LICENSED AND INSURED
  • Co ops, houses and walk ups CO OPS, HOUSES AND WALK UPS
  • Priced from a written scope PRICED FROM A WRITTEN SCOPE
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We are a general contractor working across Queens, based in Fresh Meadows.

Queens has the most mixed building stock in the city, and this part of it is a fair sample. A co op block, an owner occupied two family and a postwar walk up can sit on the same street. Each one hands a renovation a different set of approvals, a different set of hours and a different way in, and that is settled before anything about the work is.

Call (929) 955-4177 and tell us which of the three you are in. If you are not sure, describe the building and we will tell you.

A walk up stair landing with protective covering laid over the treads and taped at the edges, the handrail wrapped
A block wall being skim coated, with a clean wet edge where the new coat meets the old surface

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 your building needs board approval? A short call usually settles it.

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The three buildings, and why it matters

A co op runs under an alteration agreement. There is a board, a managing agent and a document your building wrote itself. It sets the hours, the insurance, sometimes the trades you are allowed to use, and usually a minimum percentage of floor that has to stay covered. We read yours before pricing, because two identical apartments under two different agreements are not the same job.

A two family house you own runs under the city and nothing else. No board, no agent, no approval beyond a permit where the work needs one. It is the freest stock in this borough to work in, and it is why so much of the good work here happens in houses rather than in apartments.

A rental runs under a landlord. What is permitted is whatever they say in writing, and we ask to see it before starting rather than after.

What a second household changes

Many houses here are owner occupied with a second unit let or lived in by family. Where work is in one unit the other still has to function: heat, hot water, a way in and out, and quiet at the right times of day. That is a scheduling constraint before it is anything else, and it is the thing people most often forget to mention on the first call.

Not sure whether your building needs board approval? A short call usually settles it.

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How a job runs

  1. A call

    Tell us the building and what you want done. Ten minutes usually settles whether it is a job for us.

  2. A visit

    We measure, look at the access and the stair, and ask what the building or the landlord requires.

  3. A written scope and price

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

  4. Approvals

    A board package or a permit happens before the first day of work, not during it.

  5. The work

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

Questions people ask before they call

Do I need board approval for my renovation?

In a co op, almost certainly, and the alteration agreement will say exactly what. In a condo it is usually a shorter approval. In a two family house you own, no. It is the first thing we establish, because it decides the timeline more than the work does.

How much does a renovation cost in Queens?

It depends far more on the building than on the neighbourhood. What moves it most is how much comes out before anything goes in, whether services move, the finishes, and how much of the work has to fit inside restricted hours. We price from a written scope so you can see the parts.

Can you work in a walk up?

Yes, and it changes the crew size and the staging rather than the price of the work itself. Where there is no elevator everything travels by hand, and we plan the heavy phases around that instead of discovering it on day one.

Talk it through

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

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