Working as a remodeling contractor in Babylon means understanding salt air. Preferred Remodeling & Construction Co. has been renovating homes in the Village of Babylon and the surrounding area for over 23 years, and the difference between a Babylon job and an inland job shows up in the details. Fasteners, flashing, exterior wood, door hardware. All of it takes a beating here that a house in Commack never sees.
The village itself has a housing mix you do not find in much of Suffolk. Victorians and older colonials on the streets off Deer Park Avenue, waterfront and canal-front homes south of Montauk Highway, and postwar ranches filling in between. Add the flood elevation work that followed Sandy, and you get a town where a lot of homes have been partially rebuilt already. We see the results of that constantly, some of it good and some of it not.
Every remodel we run in Babylon is staffed by our own carpenters. Seven of them plus a helper, all in-house, all on payroll. I built this business from a one man crew and I never wanted to become the kind of remodeling contractor who hands the job to whoever answers the phone.
Our Babylon work includes kitchen remodeling, bathroom remodeling, and basement remodeling, along with the carpentry that surrounds those projects. Cabinet installation, Flooring Installation, window replacement, custom trim and millwork, interior and exterior doors, built-ins, and deck building. For families staying put and adding on, we do home additions and Whole Home Remodeling. A full Home Renovation on a village Victorian is a different animal than a ranch remodel, and we price and schedule it accordingly.
Where a project touches siding installation or Patio Construction, I will be straight with you about what my crew performs directly versus what we coordinate. Exterior envelope work near the Great South Bay is not something to guess at.
The kitchens in the older homes near Argyle Lake and the streets around the village center were built as service rooms, tucked at the back and closed off. Opening them up is usually the whole project. We handle the structural side, then the Kitchen Remodeling finishes, including cabinets, counters, and trim. Cabinet Installation in a 1920s house means scribing to walls that are not plumb, which is carpentry, not assembly.
Humidity near the bay sits higher year round, and a Babylon bathroom that was not vented properly shows it within a few years. Every Bathroom Remodeling job we do here gets real ventilation, moisture resistant substrate, and a plan for where the air actually goes. A Bathroom Renovation that looks perfect and traps moisture is a callback waiting to happen.
Babylon basements are a different conversation than basements in Smithtown. Water table is higher, some homes carry flood zone designations, and several have been elevated. We walk through what makes sense before anyone talks about finishes. Where Basement Finishing is appropriate, we build an assembly that can handle moisture. Where it is not, I will tell you that instead of taking the job.
Salt air destroys exterior trim. We rebuild rotted sills, casings, corner boards, and rakes rather than caulking over them, and our Window Replacement work in Babylon uses flashing details appropriate to a coastal exposure. This is the work that prevents the expensive repair five years out.
Most of our Babylon work comes from neighbors talking. Someone sees the truck on their street, asks the homeowner how it went, and calls us the following spring. That has been the pattern for two decades and it is the only marketing that has ever worked for us. Take a look at our recent remodeling projects if you want to see the standard.
We are fully licensed and insured, and we carry the coverage that coastal work requires. Estimates are free, and when I give you a number I stand behind it. If we open a wall in a Babylon house and find that a previous crew did something wrong, you hear about it that day with photos and a cost to correct it. No surprises at the end.
I will also say this. We have turned down Babylon jobs where a homeowner wanted finishes installed over a problem we could see. That is not us being difficult. It is us not wanting our name on a floor that fails in three years.
Babylon sits at the center of a good portion of our schedule. From there we regularly work in West Babylon, North Babylon, Deer Park, West Islip, Brightwaters, Great River, Islip, and East Islip. Our home base is Smithtown, and we also handle projects in Huntington, Brookhaven, Riverhead, Southampton, and East Hampton.
Regularly. Canal-front and waterfront Babylon homes need different exterior details and often different structural considerations, and we plan around that from the first walkthrough rather than adapting mid-job.
It depends on size, whether plumbing moves, and finish level. A straightforward Babylon hall bath is a very different number than a primary suite. I give a written figure after seeing the space, and the estimate itself costs nothing.
Yes. Several Babylon homes we have worked on were raised after Sandy, and the interior remodel considerations are not the same as a house on original grade. We look at the framing and the mechanical routing before quoting.
We handle permitting through the Village of Babylon or the Town of Babylon depending on where the property sits. Those are two different processes and knowing which applies to your address saves weeks.
Preferred Remodeling & Construction Co. has served Babylon homeowners for more than 23 years, and a fair number of our clients here are second time customers.
We do, though Babylon lot sizes and setback rules vary considerably by street. Some Babylon properties support a rear addition easily and some do not. That is the first thing we check.
Anything exterior, yes. For Babylon jobs we specify hardware and fasteners rated for coastal conditions, because standard fasteners will show rust stains within a season or two.
Most Babylon families do. We set up dust protection and keep a path clear, and we talk through a temporary kitchen setup before we start.
Call 631-543-2600 or get in touch with our Babylon team to set up a walkthrough on your home. We answer the phone Monday through Friday 8am to 4:30pm and Saturday mornings 9am to 1pm. Tell me what you want to change and I will tell you what it takes.
