Service area
Remodeling in Tower Grove
1890s to 1920s brick, two-families, gut rehab candidates
- County
- City of St. Louis
- From our shop
- 8 minutes from our shop
- ZIP codes
- 63116, 63110, 63118
Working in Tower Grove
Tower Grove East and South are where we do most of our gut rehabs. Brick two-families with original woodwork, knob and tube wiring and galvanized supply lines, often vacant for a stretch and always full of things worth saving.
City permitting is a different process from the county municipalities, with its own timelines and inspectors. We know the counter, the forms and roughly how long each review actually takes.
What Tower Grove houses throw at us
Three things we see here again and again
Full gut rehabs
All three systems replaced, plaster repaired or replaced, kitchens and baths built new, original trim preserved wherever possible.
Two-family conversions
Turning a legal two-family back into a single home, which changes egress, stair and mechanical requirements.
Original details worth the effort
Pocket doors, plaster medallions, heart pine floors and stained glass transoms. Nearly always cheaper to restore than to reproduce.
Most booked in Tower Grove
Services we run here most
A project in Tower Grove
A Tower Grove South gut rehab that kept its plaster
Every system replaced, every original trim profile saved, 1,680 square feet.
- Budget
- $340,000 to $360,000
- Timeline
- 10 months
Verified after completion
What people say once the dust is gone
from 218 reviews (sample)
4.9 Google
4.9 Houzz
4.8 Angi
They told us in week one that the chimney chase was going to be a problem and what it would cost. When it turned out exactly like they said, we stopped worrying about the rest of it. Nine weeks, two change orders, both explained before the work happened.
The first thing Marcus said was that we needed to fix the water before we spent anything on walls. Nobody else who bid it even mentioned the grading. Two years on, the basement is bone dry.
Our house is 120 years old and nothing in it is square. They measured everything twice and the tile still landed exactly where the drawing said it would.
The first design did not fit the setbacks and they told us straight away instead of letting us fall in love with it. Eight months, on budget, and the roof line looks original from the street.
They numbered every piece of trim they took off and put it back exactly where it came from. I did not think anyone still did that.
They found rot we did not know about, showed us photographs, priced it the same day and kept going. Seven weeks start to finish and we ate out there all September.
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Tell us the street and what you want to change. We will confirm the permitting path in Tower Grove and book a free site visit.
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