Lakewood, CO · Basement Finishing
A finished basement adds a bedroom, a family room, or a rental in your Lakewood ranch. We do it the right way with a legal egress window, radon in mind, and framing that handles the expansive soil under the slab.
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Tyler B. · whole-home remodelWhat we see in Lakewood basements
Lakewood was incorporated in 1969, and most of its homes are 1950s and 1960s ranches sitting on Front Range expansive soil at about 5,520 feet elevation. That soil, the water table, and the egress rules all shape how a basement gets finished here. Here is what usually turns up.
Any basement bedroom needs its own emergency escape opening. In a 1950s or 1960s ranch that means cutting the foundation for an egress window and building a window well. We size it to current code, cut it clean, and detail the well so it drains and stays dry.
The Front Range sits on claystone that swells when wet and shrinks when dry, which lifts and cracks slabs. We test the floor, plan for movement, and use a floating wall detail so a heaving slab cannot push your new framing apart.
Radon is common across the Front Range. Finishing is the right time to test and, if it reads high, rough in a mitigation system before the slab and walls are closed up. Cleaner install, and you are not opening a finished wall later.
Homes on the slopes near Green Mountain and Solterra often have a walkout or garden-level basement. Those give you real windows and an easy egress, but the grading and the drainage around them need to be right so water runs away from the house, not into it.
Homes down near Bear Creek can sit close to a mapped floodplain. Before we frame, we check moisture and drainage, and where it matters we plan the finish so a wet season does not ruin it. Better to know before the drywall goes up.
A finish adds framing, electrical, and often plumbing, so it pulls a permit with the City of Lakewood, not Jefferson County, under Lakewood Municipal Code Title 18A for the use. We do the drawings, apply through eTRAKiT, and schedule the inspections.
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Where we finish basements in Lakewood
From the ranch basements on the east side to the walkouts near Green Mountain, we finish basements all over the city. A few of the neighborhoods we are in often:
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