Denver, CO · Basement Finishing
Turn a cold, unfinished Denver basement into real living space: a legal bedroom with an egress window, a family room, a bath, or a rental. We handle the moisture, the radon, and the permit so it is done right.
"Josh remodeled my entire house, top to bottom. His team made sure I was informed and satisfied every step of the way. His quotes were fair and honest, and his work was beyond satisfactory."
Tyler B. · whole-home remodelWhat we see in Denver basements
The below-grade rooms in this city come with their own set of questions: water, radon, head height, and whether a bedroom down there is actually legal. Here is what we check before we build.
Most Denver basements we work on are in homes near Cherry Creek and the South Platte River, built not long after the city was founded in 1858. At 5,280 feet elevation, the dry mile-high air and the old expansive clay soils are part of every job here, and a few of these blocks sit inside a Denver historic district.
If you want a bedroom in the basement, it needs its own emergency escape opening, an egress window sized to current code, and usually a window well when it is below grade. We cut the wall, set the window and well, and plan the room around it so it counts as a real bedroom and appraises like one.
Older Denver basements in Wash Park, Berkeley, and Park Hill can be damp, and Front Range clay soil moves water toward foundations. We deal with grading, drainage, and vapor first, so we are never hanging drywall over a wall that sweats.
Radon shows up in a lot of Front Range homes. When we finish a basement into living space, we plan for a mitigation system instead of sealing a problem behind new walls. It is one of the first things we talk about on the estimate.
A pre-war Denver basement is often low, with a rubble or short poured foundation and ducts running right where you want head height. We frame to save every inch we can, box in beams and pipes cleanly, and tell you honestly how the finished ceiling will feel.
Most Denver basement finishes want a bathroom, and often a kitchenette for a guest suite or rental. That means new drain lines cut into old cast-iron, sometimes an ejector pump when the sewer sits high. We plan the plumbing runs so the fixtures drain right.
Finishing a basement adds framing, electrical, an egress window, and often plumbing, so it pulls a permit with City and County of Denver through their E-permits system and gets inspected at each stage. We handle the paperwork and the inspections so the space is legal square footage.
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The same things come up again and again: on time, honest quotes, and a clean site at the end of every day.
"Josh remodeled my entire house, top to bottom. His team made sure I was informed and satisfied every step of the way. His quotes were fair and honest, and his work was beyond satisfactory."
"From the first phone call I knew I was going in the right direction. They gutted my bathroom and remodeled it within the time they said, and went above and beyond to clean up and make sure I was satisfied daily. The professionalism from the quote to the work being done was extremely satisfactory."
"Joshua and his crew were amazing to work with, professional, communicative, and budget-friendly. Joshua stayed on top of every detail. They get an A+ from me!"
Where we finish basements in Denver
From the old low basements in the pre-war parts of town to the tall unfinished basements in the newer infill, we work all over the city. A few of the neighborhoods we are in often:
Denver basement questions
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