Finished Basements

Finished Basements in Lehigh County, PA

Your basement is the biggest room in your house that nobody uses.

  • Timeline: 6–10 weeks on site
  • Investment: From $35,000
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Typical range
$35,000 – $75,000
On site
6 – 10 weeks
Permitting first
2 – 4 weeks
Crew
Self-performed

What's included

  • Layout designed with you, on site
  • Moisture testing before pricing
  • Permits and inspections handled
  • Framing, including soffits
  • Insulation and vapor management
  • Electrical, lighting and switching
  • Drywall, taping and finishing
  • LVP or carpet over a prepped slab
  • Doors, baseboard and trim
  • Paint
  • Daily photos before anything closes up
Finished basement family room with LVP flooring and recessed lighting in a Lehigh County home
Finished lower level, Lehigh County (1 of 6)

Three things that decide the build

Harder versus easier

  • Moisture check first

    Slab, walls, sump and grading, tested before we price anything.

  • Egress where it's needed

    A basement bedroom needs an egress window. Priced as its own line.

  • Ceiling height decides

    Ducts and beams set the layout. We soffit around them.

Basement bathroom — photography in progress
A bathroom moves a basement budget most.

Your basement becomes a home theater

Eight ways to use the biggest unused room in the house.

Build your basement

These are your options

Pick what it needs to do. The estimate updates as you go.

Pick what it needs to do

A bathroom and an egress window are the two things that genuinely move the number.

Here's your basement

Open finished space with home theater.

  • Rooms included: 1 space
  • Timeline: 7–9 weeks on site

Estimated investment

$38,000 – $48,000

An estimate, not a quote. The real number comes from a walkthrough.

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Published range for a finished basement in Lehigh County: $35,000 – $75,000. Permitting adds 2 – 4 weeks before the crew arrives.

Three scopes

Small versus full

  • Open living space

    One big room, finished properly.

    • Rooms included: 1 space
    • Timeline: 6–8 weeks

    From

    $35,000

    Estimate. Priced after a walkthrough.

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  • Living space + bathroom

    The room, plus a full bath below grade.

    • Rooms included: 2 spaces
    • Timeline: 8–10 weeks

    From

    $50,000

    Estimate. Priced after a walkthrough.

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  • Full suite

    Bath, bar and egress window.

    • Rooms included: 4 spaces
    • Timeline: 10–12 weeks

    From

    $65,000

    Estimate. Priced after a walkthrough.

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The difference

How we work

  • Most contractors
  • Lehigh Valley Builders
  • Five subs, five calendars
  • One crew, one schedule
  • Price after demo
  • Fixed price up front
  • Water found later
  • Moisture check first
  • Walls close on trust
  • Photos of every wall
  • 01

    Walkthrough

    We measure, test for moisture, and talk through use.

  • 02

    Fixed price

    One written number before anything is demolished.

  • 03

    Build

    Our own crew, one schedule, photos every day.

  • 04

    Punch list

    We finish the last one percent before we leave.

What it costs

$35,000 – $75,000

Most finished basements in Lehigh County land here. Size, bathroom, finish level.

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On site
6 – 10 weeks
Permitting first
2 – 4 weeks
Price
Fixed, in writing

Questions

The short answers

Cost, permits, moisture and timeline, answered in full

  • How long does it take?

    Six to ten weeks on site, after two to four weeks of permitting.

  • Do you subcontract?

    No. Framing, electrical, drywall and trim are our own crew.

  • What if the basement is damp?

    We test first and tell you. We will not finish over a water problem.

Nearby

Lehigh County only

  • Allentown

    Allentown basements are mostly twins and rowhomes, and they present the same three problems over and over: width, height, and the panel.

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  • Bethlehem

    Bethlehem has the widest range of housing stock in the county, so there is no single approach to finishing a basement here.

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  • Emmaus

    Emmaus is largely older colonials and foursquares, and in those houses the basement was never intended to be lived in.

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  • Macungie

    Macungie has the most finishable basements in Lehigh County, and homeowners here are usually surprised by how much of the hard part is already done.

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  • Whitehall

    Whitehall is split-level and ranch country, and those two house types call for completely different basement plans.

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Start with the planning quiz

Six questions about your space. Then we'll both know if we fit.

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