Home Renovation · Marietta, PA
Home Renovation in Marietta, PA
Detail-driven renovations for Marietta's historic district.
Renovating in Marietta's National Historic District calls for a careful hand. We preserve the Federal and Victorian details that give these homes their value while bringing kitchens, baths, and systems up to modern standards, permits and inspections included.
Renovating in Marietta
Renovating inside a National Historic District
Marietta's Market Street and the blocks around it are a National Historic District: Federal and Victorian brick, log and frame houses with porches, transoms, original windows and interiors that have often been untouched for fifty years. The work here is almost all interior: kitchens in the rear ell, bathrooms carved out of small rooms, plaster repair, and new systems threaded through an old frame without tearing it apart.
Permits and exterior changes
Marietta Borough issues the permits. 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. Exterior changes on a historic block, like windows, porches and siding, may get an extra look from the borough, so we plan those early. Any home built before 1978 gets lead-safe work practices from our EPA RRP certified crew, with containment and cleanup built into the schedule.
Modern comfort in a very old house
Central air in a house with no ductwork is the most common question we get in Marietta. Ductless mini-splits or a high-velocity system usually solve it without dropping ceilings or losing closets. The same approach applies to a kitchen: keep the original floor and window trim, add the cabinetry, lighting and plumbing the house never had. A bath runs two to three weeks, a kitchen four to eight.
Wondering about the numbers? Our guides to kitchen remodel costs and bathroom remodel costs in Lancaster County walk through them.
What we renovate in Marietta
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 Marietta 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 Marietta. Renovation nearby: Lancaster, Lititz, Strasburg, Paradise, Columbia, Mount Joy, Elizabethtown, Manheim Township, Salunga.
Questions from Marietta homeowners
Straight answers, before the walkthrough.
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Yes. Depending on the house, a ductless mini-split system or a high-velocity system with small flexible ducts gives you cooling and efficient heat without cutting up the plaster or the trim. We size it on the walkthrough.
We restore them where the sash and frames are sound, adding weatherstripping and a storm window, and replace only the ones that have failed. Replacement in a historic district may need the borough's review, which we take care of.
Sound plaster is repaired and skim-coated, not demolished. Where a wall has to open for wiring or plumbing we patch it to match. You keep the solid, quiet walls that make these houses feel the way they do.
Start your Marietta renovation
Book a free 60-minute walkthrough in Marietta, PA. We will have a fixed written quote back to you within 5 days.