Stoneva
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Brooklyn

General contractor in Brooklyn

Renovation, bathrooms, kitchens and joinery for Brooklyn row houses and apartments, where the party wall and the stair decide more than the floor plan does.

  • Licensed and insured LICENSED AND INSURED
  • Row house work ROW HOUSE WORK
  • Priced from a written scope PRICED FROM A WRITTEN SCOPE
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Brooklyn is row house country. Brownstones, limestones and frame row houses, mostly three or four storeys, mostly narrow and deep, and mostly sharing a party wall with the house on either side. The plan is almost always the same shape and the condition almost never is, so the work is about what a hundred and thirty years has done to one specific house rather than about the type.

Call (929) 695-6158 and describe the house. We will tell you what it involves.

A narrow timber staircase with protective covering laid over the treads and taped at the edges, the handrail wrapped
Deep original painted timber trim where a moulded architrave meets a baseboard at a corner block

What we take on

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

Not sure what the stair will take, or what the garden level allows? A short call usually settles it.

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What a row house does to a job

The party wall is shared, and so is the noise. Your neighbours are attached to you rather than above you. Anything percussive travels straight through the wall, so it is sequenced into the hours that cause the least trouble, and the neighbours are told before it starts rather than after.

The stair is the whole logistics problem. A narrow stair three flights up decides what can be carried in whole and what has to be built in the room. On a lot of jobs that is what makes a made built in the cheaper answer rather than the expensive one.

The garden level is a different building. Below grade rooms bring moisture, lower ceilings and their own light problem, and they are where a great deal of Brooklyn renovation value actually sits. What can be done there is decided by what the walls and the slab are doing rather than by the plan.

One house, several eras of work. Most of these houses have been divided, recombined, wired and rewired. We expect to find work nobody documented, and we scope so that finding it moves a line rather than the whole job.

How a job runs

  1. A call

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

  2. A visit

    We measure, look at the stair and the access, and check what we can see behind the walls.

  3. A written scope and price

    In parts, so you can see each one 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.

Not sure what the stair will take, or what the garden level allows? A short call usually settles it.

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Questions people ask before they call

Do I need to tell my neighbours?

You are not obliged to, and on a party wall it is worth doing anyway. Work that carries through a shared wall goes much better when the house next door knows the dates in advance, and we will tell you which parts of the programme are the noisy ones.

Can you get materials up the stair?

Sometimes, and where we cannot, the piece gets made in the room instead. That is normal in a row house and it is one of the reasons joinery here is so often built rather than bought.

Can you work on the garden level?

Yes, and the first question is always moisture rather than finish. What the walls and the slab are doing decides what can be built against them, and anything applied before that is settled is a finish that comes off again.

Talk it through

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

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