Trexlertown, Pennsylvania
Finished Basements in Trexlertown, Pennsylvania
Trexlertown is the one place we serve where we will tell you up front that most of the housing does not have a basement you can finish, and that changes how we approach the ones that do.
- Town
- Trexlertown
- County
- Lehigh County, PA
- Typical range
- $75 to $125 per sq ft
The honest picture of the housing stock
Only 18 percent of Trexlertown units are single-family detached. Half of everything here, 50.7 percent, sits in buildings of five or more units, and 31.7 percent of occupied units are owner-occupied (American Community Survey 2019 to 2023, tables B25024 and B25003). Valley Ridge Apartments, the Hamilton at Trexler Plaza buildings and the Mayo manufactured home community account for a large share of the addresses in 18087.
So the addressable work in Trexlertown is a narrow band: 2000s townhomes, a handful of detached homes, and a small pre-1940 village core along the old crossroads. We would rather say that than sell you a page pretending otherwise.
A townhouse basement is a different job
The median Trexlertown unit was built in 2002, and 55.3 percent of the stock went up in 2000 or later. A townhouse basement from that era is typically a poured wall, eight feet or better, with one small window at the front and often a slider or walk-out at the rear because these were built into sloping lots.
The constraint is width and the mechanical end. Furnace, water heater and the electrical panel usually cluster at one end of a fifteen to twenty foot wide footprint, and the stair lands in the middle of it. The layout that works is a single long run with the utilities walled into a proper utility room, not a floor plan borrowed from a detached house.
Party walls, permits and Upper Macungie
Trexlertown is not its own municipality. It sits inside Upper Macungie Township, in the Parkland School District, and the permit goes through Upper Macungie. We draw the set and pull it.
On an attached home the party wall matters. Fire separation has to be maintained where you open a wall or run new services, and sound transmission to the neighbor is a real consideration that nobody thinks about until the theater is finished. We detail for both.
What it costs
$75, $125 / sq ft
The published rate in Lehigh County. $50,000 project minimum. A bathroom and a designed ceiling move you up the range.
Plan My Project- On site
- 6 to 10 weeks
- Permitting first
- 2 to 4 weeks
- Price
- Fixed, in writing
Most relevant for Trexlertown homes
Everything we include in a finished basement is on the finished basements page. Other Lehigh County towns: Allentown, Bethlehem, Emmaus, Macungie, Whitehall, Salisbury Township, Breinigsville, Fogelsville, Alburtis, Orefield, Schnecksville, Coopersburg.
If you are still weighing it up, read how a build runs from first visit to final walkthrough or the answers on cost, permits and moisture.
Planning a basement in Trexlertown?
A walkthrough and a written line-item price come before anything is demolished.