Home Renovation · Lancaster, PA
Home Renovation in Lancaster, PA
Kitchen, bath, and whole-home renovations for Lancaster's historic city homes.
Renovating in Lancaster city usually means working with older rowhomes, twins, and city singles, many with original woodwork, tall ceilings, and the quirks that come with a hundred-plus years of history. We modernize kitchens, baths, and systems while protecting the character that makes these homes worth owning, and we pull permits through the City of Lancaster so the process stays clean.
Renovating in Lancaster
What Lancaster city homes usually need
Most of the city's housing is brick rowhomes, twins and singles built between the 1880s and the 1930s. Behind the tall ceilings and original trim you typically find plaster walls, a narrow kitchen at the back, one bath on the second floor, and wiring and plumbing from several eras. The projects we do most in the city are opening the kitchen into the dining room, adding a second bath or moving the first one, rebuilding a tired rear addition, and replacing the mechanicals while the walls are open.
Permits, inspections and the historic districts
Structural, electrical, plumbing and HVAC work needs a building permit; paint, flooring and a straight cabinet swap usually do not. We pull the permits, schedule the inspections and meet the inspector, so you never deal with the office yourself. The City of Lancaster also reviews exterior changes to homes in its historic districts, so facade work on an older block needs a little lead time. Any home built before 1978 gets lead-safe work practices from our EPA RRP certified crew, with containment and cleanup built into the schedule.
Recent work in the city
701 New Holland Avenue is a good example of a Lancaster turn-key renovation: new flooring throughout, a new kitchen with modern cabinetry, a remodeled bath, fresh paint inside and out and new lighting. It sold for $11,000 over asking in 32 days. For a full gut, see the 1900 brick townhouse we took top to bottom in York, with a new kitchen, rebuilt baths and a new HVAC system. Both are in the portfolio with before and after photos.
Wondering about the numbers? Our guides to kitchen remodel costs and bathroom remodel costs in Lancaster County walk through them.
What we renovate in Lancaster
Kitchens
New cabinetry, counters, layouts, and lighting, designed and built under one project manager.
Bathrooms
Full bath and powder-room remodels, from tile and vanities to plumbing.
Whole-home
Top-to-bottom renovations that bring an older home fully up to date.
Additions
More square footage done right, from design and permits through framing and finish.
Exteriors
Siding, roofing, windows, and curb appeal that hold up.
Basements
Finished lower levels for living space, a home office, or a guest suite.
How a Lancaster renovation works
Free walkthrough
60 minutes on-site, no obligation. We listen, measure, and talk through what is possible.
Fixed written quote
A clear scope and a firm number back to you within 5 days. No moving targets.
Managed build
Our crews and trusted trade partners do the work, managed by one Apex project manager, with a two-year workmanship warranty.
Everything Apex does in Lancaster. Renovation nearby: Lititz, Strasburg, Paradise, Columbia, Marietta, Mount Joy, Elizabethtown, Manheim Township, Salunga.
Questions from Lancaster homeowners
Straight answers, before the walkthrough.
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If the layout, plumbing or electrical changes, yes, and the City of Lancaster inspects the rough-in and the finished work. A cabinet, counter and appliance swap in the same footprint usually does not. Either way we handle the paperwork and the inspections.
A bathroom runs two to three weeks on site, a kitchen four to eight, and a whole-home renovation twelve to twenty. City jobs need a plan for parking and material staging, which we work out with you and the neighbors before the first delivery.
Yes. We do a lot of pre-listing updates and rental make-readies in the city, scoped to what buyers or tenants on that block actually pay for. If the home has a tenant, we schedule the work around them.
Start your Lancaster renovation
Book a free 60-minute walkthrough in Lancaster, PA. We will have a fixed written quote back to you within 5 days.