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Excavation, foundation pour, sill plate, and first-floor framing happen in week 7 through week 9. Second-floor framing, roof framing, and dry-in (sheathing, wrap, windows installed) happen in weeks 10 through 12. The dry-in milestone is the project psychology turning point. The addition stops being a hole in the ground and starts being a recognizable extension of the home.
Two-story additions live or die on the dry-in date. Hit dry-in on time and the rest of the project flows. Miss dry-in and every subsequent trade slips because they cannot work in weather. Our entire scheduling discipline is built around protecting that one milestone.
– Derek Halvorsen, Operations Manager
Plumbing, electrical, and HVAC rough-ins happen first, followed by insulation, drywall, paint, and finish trades. The kitchen renovation tie-in to the new footprint (if the addition includes a new kitchen wall) happens in week 18 or so. Most DeWitt families plan to be onsite through phase 3 but move out for the dust-heavy weeks of drywall and paint.
A typical 1000 square foot two-story addition (500 each floor) on a DeWitt home runs 320,000 to 520,000 dollars. The cost is meaningfully higher than a similar second-story addition cost on its own because of the new foundation work, but the value-per-square-foot ratio is better because you get both floors out of one mobilization. Compared to a full whole house reno phasing project, the addition is cheaper and adds usable square footage instead of just refreshing what is there.
SAP Construction has been running two-story additions across CNY since 2016. Schedule a consultation and our project manager will walk the rear yard, sketch the workflow, and deliver a transparent estimate within 24 hours.
A dedicated theater is the upgrade Geddes homeowners enjoy every single weekend, and it is also the basement project where the fun details and the code details fight each other. You want a sealed, dark, sound-isolated box; the code wants egress, proper wiring, and a ceiling height that does not feel like a crawlspace. A basement home theater code compliant build gets both right, so the room sounds incredible and still passes inspection without a last-minute redesign.
Most tile showers that fail in DeWitt did not fail at the tile. They failed behind it, where water that got through the grout had nowhere safe to go. The schluter kerdi waterproof system fixes that by putting a continuous bonded membrane on the warm side of the assembly, so the tile is the wear surface and the membrane is the waterproofing. For a lifestyle upgrader who wants a shower that looks high-end and stays dry through CNY winters, this is the system we specify.
Pompey's hillside lots produce some of the most beautiful homes in the region and some of the most challenging additions. When a homeowner wants to add a primary bedroom suite to the ground floor, often because the upstairs has become hard to navigate or because the long-term plan is to stay in the home, the topography itself becomes a design constraint. A first floor master addition done right on a Pompey lot solves the layout question and respects the slope. Done wrong, it ends up looking like a trailer parked next to a beautiful home.
Liverpool's older lots typically include a detached garage at the rear of the property, often built to lot-line setbacks that were legal in 1955 but no longer apply for habitable construction today. Investors who buy a Liverpool property hoping to convert that detached garage into an ADU first need to understand whether the existing garage location even allows the conversion. The detached garage adu setbacks for habitable space are tighter than those for the original garage, and the math has to be done before the deal closes.
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