Huntington has some of the oldest housing stock we work in, and that changes how a remodeling contractor has to think. Walk through the neighborhoods off Park Avenue or up around Main Street and you find homes from the 1800s standing next to 1920s colonials and postwar builds. Preferred Remodeling & Construction Co. has worked in Huntington for 23 years, and I still send my most experienced carpenter on the first look at a house here.
The local condition that drives our Huntington work is the topography. This is hilly ground, especially north toward the harbor, and homes built on a slope handle water differently than the flat south shore houses we work on. Grading, foundation drainage, and how a hillside lot sheds runoff all matter here in a way they simply do not in West Babylon. I have been in Huntington basements where the water was arriving from uphill through the foundation wall, not up through the slab, and the fix is a completely different job.
Seven carpenters and one helper, all employees of this company. In a town with this much original millwork, plaster, and hand-built detail, that crew stability is the whole point. I am not sending a first-time crew into a house with 150 year old framing.
Huntington homeowners bring us kitchen remodeling, bathroom remodeling, and basement remodeling, plus cabinet installation, custom millwork and trim, wood flooring installation, window replacement, door installation, built-ins, and deck building. We build home additions where the lot and the approvals allow, and take on Whole Home Remodeling on older properties being brought up to date. A period-appropriate Home Renovation on a Huntington colonial is among the most demanding work we do, and it is work we want.
For scopes that include Patio Construction or Siding Installation, I will state plainly at the estimate what our carpenters perform and what we bring in a specialist for. On a historic Huntington exterior, that clarity protects you.
Huntington kitchens in the older houses were separate service rooms with low ceilings and no relationship to the rest of the floor plan. Opening them up means dealing with real framing, sometimes hand-hewn, and floors that are not level anywhere. Our Kitchen Remodeling work handles that reality, and Cabinet Installation gets scribed and shimmed to the house instead of forced into it.
Adding or rebuilding a bath in an old Huntington house is a framing problem before it is a tile problem. Joist bays are odd, there is often no place for a vent stack, and plaster demo is heavy. We plan for all of it. Every Bathroom Renovation we complete here gets proper exhaust, which most of these houses never had.
Huntington basements on a grade need the uphill water dealt with before anything gets framed. Where conditions support it, our Basement Finishing uses an assembly held off the foundation with materials that tolerate moisture. Basement Remodeling in a Huntington hillside home can produce a genuinely nice lower level, but only after the drainage question is answered honestly.
Replacing windows on a period Huntington home is as much about sightlines and profiles as it is about efficiency. We match muntin patterns and casing details, rebuild rotted sills and jambs rather than covering them, and keep the elevation reading correctly from the street. Our Window Replacement work here is carpentry, not swapping units.
Huntington homeowners generally ask sharper questions than average, and I like that. Ask me how we handle a soft sill under an original window, or what we do when a floor drops an inch and a half across a room, and you will get a specific answer. Where plaster has failed outright, our drywall and plaster repair crew patches it so the wall reads flat again.
We are licensed and insured, and the certificates come to you before we start. Estimates are free and written in detail. The honest thing I tell Huntington clients is that older houses hold surprises, so we identify what we can up front and we tell you the day we find the rest. Nobody who has renovated an antique house believes a scope that promises no unknowns.
Working out of Smithtown, we serve Huntington and reach east through Brookhaven and out to Riverhead, Southampton, and East Hampton, plus the south shore towns of Islip, East Islip, West Islip, Great River, Brightwaters, Babylon, West Babylon, North Babylon, and Deer Park.
Regularly. A good portion of our Huntington work is on houses well over a century old, and we approach the framing and millwork accordingly.
Sometimes. Certain Huntington properties and districts carry additional review, and that is one of the first things we check before design begins.
Because much of Huntington is hilly. On a sloped Huntington lot, water can travel downhill and enter through the foundation wall rather than the slab, and that needs a different remedy.
Preferred Remodeling & Construction Co. has worked in Huntington for more than 23 years.
Yes. We source matching profiles or have knives made so new work in a Huntington home does not stand out as new.
Every Huntington estimate is free. On older homes I take extra time on the walkthrough, because that is where the real information is.
Often, though Huntington setbacks, topography, and approvals vary considerably. We evaluate all three before drawing anything.
We do, including phased projects on older Huntington homes where the family stays in part of the house while we work.
Call 631-543-2600 or set up a Huntington consultation and we will schedule a walkthrough of your home. Hours are Monday through Friday 8am to 4:30pm and Saturday 9am to 1pm. Bring me the house and I will tell you honestly what it needs.
