Licensed & insured Bronx general contractor
If you own a home in the Bronx, you already know the housing stock here is unlike anywhere else in New York City: prewar two-families in Morris Park, brick rowhouses in Throgs Neck, detached colonials in Riverdale, and postwar capes in Pelham Bay. Renovating them well takes a contractor who understands plaster walls, knob-and-tube leftovers, tight side yards, DOB filings, and neighbors twenty feet away.
Excellent Home Improvement is a Bronx-based remodeling company handling kitchens, bathrooms, basements, roofing, siding, painting, and full house renovation under one contract — with a fixed written price and a 7-year workmanship warranty.
A Bronx renovation is rarely just cosmetic. Behind the finishes you can see, most homes here carry sixty to a hundred years of accumulated shortcuts: undersized electrical panels, galvanized supply lines that have narrowed to a pencil's width, hidden ceiling patches over old leaks, and additions built before anyone filed a permit. A remodeling company that only prices what is visible will find those problems in week three and hand you a change order.
We work the opposite way. Before we quote, we open access points, check panel capacity, look at joist spans, test for moisture at the foundation, and read the DOB record for your address. That takes longer up front, and it is exactly why our final invoice matches the number on the contract. It also lets us sequence trades properly — plumbing and electrical roughed in together, inspections booked before drywall, materials on site before demolition starts.
The second thing that makes a house renovation in the Bronx different is the paperwork. Depending on scope you may need a DOB Type 2 alteration application, a Limited Alteration Application for plumbing or electrical, an asbestos assessment, or Landmarks review if you are in a designated district. We handle all of it as part of the job, including scheduling inspections and closing out permits so your Certificate of Occupancy stays clean when you eventually sell or refinance.
Finally, there is the human side. Renovation is disruptive. Our crews arrive between 8 and 9, build dust containment on day one, protect floors and stair treads, sweep before leaving, and never leave debris on the sidewalk overnight. You get one project manager's cell number and a weekly written update — not a rotating cast of subcontractors.
Every trade below is delivered by our own crews or long-term partners we have worked with for years — one contract, one warranty, one point of accountability.
Whole-home renovation is our core work in the Bronx: one contract, one project manager, one schedule covering demolition, framing, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, insulation, drywall, trim, and finishes. We start with a walkthrough of how your family actually uses the house — where the bottlenecks are, which rooms sit empty, where the layout fights you — and design around that before a single wall comes down.
All renovation servicesBronx kitchens are often narrow galleys closed off from the rest of the home. We open sight lines where the structure allows, add an island or peninsula for prep and seating, and rebuild the electrical and plumbing to current code. Cabinetry ranges from quality semi-custom to full custom, with quartz, granite, or porcelain counters and properly vented range hoods.
Kitchen remodelingBathroom work lives or dies on waterproofing. We take bathrooms to the studs, replace old galvanized supply lines, install a bonded waterproof membrane behind tile, and slope shower pans correctly so nothing telegraphs into the ceiling below. Curbless showers, heated floors, double vanities, and code-compliant exhaust are all standard options.
Bathroom renovationA finished Bronx basement adds real living space, but only if water is handled first. We diagnose the source — grading, gutters, hydrostatic pressure — then correct it with exterior drainage, interior French drains, sump systems, and vapor barriers before framing. Finished basements include proper egress, ceiling height planning, and legal-use guidance.
Basement renovationWe hang, tape, and finish drywall to a level 4 or level 5 finish depending on lighting and paint sheen — the difference between walls that look flat and walls that show every seam under raking window light. Repairs include water-damaged ceilings, cracked plaster in prewar homes, popcorn ceiling removal, and skim-coating entire rooms back to smooth.
Preparation is 80% of a paint job: patching, sanding, caulking, priming bare and repaired surfaces, and masking everything that isn't getting painted. Exteriors get scraping, spot-priming, and coatings rated for NYC freeze-thaw cycles. We are EPA Lead-Safe certified, which matters on any Bronx home built before 1978.
Painting servicesSolid and engineered hardwood, luxury vinyl plank, porcelain tile, and natural stone. In older Bronx houses we check subfloor flatness and deflection before anything is installed, because tile over a bouncy joist bay cracks within a season. Existing oak floors can often be sanded, stained, and refinished for a fraction of replacement cost.
Materials & finishesFlat and low-slope roofs dominate Bronx rowhouses and two-families; pitched shingle roofs cover much of Riverdale and Country Club. We install modified bitumen and TPO systems for flat roofs and architectural asphalt shingles for pitched, always with new flashing at every penetration, chimney, and wall junction — the places where roofs actually leak.
Vinyl, fiber cement, and stucco repair with the housewrap and flashing details behind them done correctly. Siding on Bronx homes takes wind-driven rain off the Sound and salt air near City Island and Throgs Neck, so we detail window heads, kickouts, and terminations to keep water on the outside of the assembly.
Seamless aluminum gutters formed on site, sized and pitched for actual roof area, with downspouts routed far enough from the foundation to stop basement seepage. Guards are available for homes under mature trees in Woodlawn, Norwood, and Riverdale where clogging is a yearly problem.
Repointing deteriorated mortar joints, rebuilding crowns, replacing rusted caps and flashing, and relining flues. Bronx chimneys on prewar homes are frequently the single largest source of upper-floor water stains, and a chimney repair often costs a fraction of the interior damage it prevents.
There is no shortage of contractors in the Bronx. The difference shows up in how a company prices work, how it treats your home while the crew is in it, and whether it answers the phone a year after the final payment clears.
Career carpenters, tile setters, and finishers — not day labor rotated between jobs. The crew that starts your project is the crew that finishes it.
We specify materials that survive NYC humidity, salt air, and freeze-thaw, and we show you samples and brand names before ordering — never a vague allowance.
A fixed, line-item written quote. Change orders are priced and signed before work proceeds, so the final invoice matches what you agreed to.
A written schedule with phase dates, materials ordered before demolition, and a project manager who sends you weekly progress updates.
In-home consultation, measurements, and a full written proposal at no cost and no obligation anywhere in the Bronx.
You can review our step-by-step process, see typical renovation pricing, or browse the materials we specify before you ever schedule a visit.
A sample of completed work across the borough. More before-and-after sets live in our project portfolio.
Our shop is on Hone Ave in Morris Park, which means most of the borough is a fifteen-minute drive. That matters more than it sounds: a local crew shows up on time, comes back same-day for a punch item, and knows which blocks need parking permits and which inspectors cover which districts.
Free in-home consultation, fixed written quote, 7-year workmanship warranty.
“They gutted our kitchen and two bathrooms in a 1930s two-family. The quote never moved, the crew cleaned up every single day, and the plaster patching in the hallway is invisible. We already booked them for the basement.”
“Roof, gutters, and siding after storm damage. They found the flashing problem two other contractors missed and fixed the cause instead of patching the stain. Six months and several storms later, bone dry.”
“Whole-home renovation on a tight schedule before our second child arrived. Permits filed fast, weekly updates by text, and they hit the finish date. The floors and trim match the original 1940s detail perfectly.”
Most Bronx projects we price fall between $35,000 for a single-room refresh and $250,000+ for a full gut of a two-family home. A mid-range kitchen typically lands at $38,000–$65,000, a full bathroom at $18,000–$32,000, and a finished basement at $45,000–$90,000. Every number you receive from us is a fixed, line-item quote after an in-home measure — not a per-square-foot guess.
Yes. We prepare and file NYC Department of Buildings Type 2 alteration applications, Limited Alteration Applications for plumbing and electrical, and we schedule every required inspection. Homeowners never have to visit a DOB office or chase an expeditor — permit work is included in the contract scope.
Kitchens and bathrooms usually run 6–10 weeks from demolition to final walkthrough. Basements run 8–12 weeks. Whole-home renovations in the Bronx typically take 12–20 weeks. Permit review adds 2–5 weeks up front, and we start that clock the day the contract is signed so it overlaps with material ordering.
We hold a NYC DCWP Home Improvement Contractor license and carry general liability plus workers' compensation coverage. Certificates of insurance naming your building, co-op, or HOA as additional insured are issued on request before work begins.
All of them — Riverdale, Throgs Neck, Pelham Bay, Morris Park, Pelham Parkway, Fordham, Kingsbridge, City Island, Country Club, Woodlawn, Belmont, Bedford Park, Parkchester, Wakefield, Norwood, Castle Hill, Soundview and more. We also work in Westchester and the other four boroughs.
For single-room work, almost always. We build dust barriers, run negative-air machines, protect floors and stairs daily, and keep at least one working bathroom and kitchen path available. For a full gut, most families move out for the demolition and rough-in phases and return for finishes.
Yes. The in-home consultation, measurements, scope discussion, and written fixed quote are free with no obligation. Call (917) 705-4571 or submit the form on this page and we will call back within one business day.
Every project carries a 7-year written workmanship warranty in addition to the manufacturer warranties on materials such as roofing shingles, cabinetry, and flooring. The warranty is transferable if you sell the home.
Yes. A large share of Bronx housing stock is two- and three-family, and we handle separate-metering, fire-rated assemblies, egress requirements, and Certificate of Occupancy considerations that come with them.
We follow a milestone draw schedule tied to completed phases — deposit, rough-in, finishes, and final on completion — as required by NYC home improvement contract rules. Nothing is due for a phase that isn't finished and approved by you.
Yes. Prewar Bronx homes have plaster walls, oak floors, and trim profiles that big-box remodelers rip out. We can reproduce casing and baseboard profiles, feather new plaster into old, and weave replacement flooring so the repair disappears.
Still deciding on scope? Read our renovation guides or compare Bronx renovation options and Westchester painting.
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