Real Chicago houses. Drag the handle.
Every photograph below is one of our own jobs. Nothing is stock, nothing is staged for us, and the condition we walked into is published alongside the finish.
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BEFOREAFTERSame house, same angle. Drag to wipe between the day we arrived and the day we handed it back.
Every house on this page came to us broken.
We handed all of them back finished.
Rotted porches, failed masonry, fire damage, hoarded basements. Not one of them was handed to another contractor halfway through.
Find the thing you were cited for
The City words these its own way. Find the line that matches your notice and see what the fixed version looks like.
Cited forRotted decking, loose or missing rails, or a porch built without a permit.
What it takes to clear it →
Cited forCracked or settled steps, no handrail, or treads that move underfoot.
What it takes to clear it →
Cited forOpen mortar joints, spalled brick, or a wall the City calls in disrepair.
What it takes to clear it →
Cited forA sagging roof, failing framing, or a garage that needs taking down properly.
What it takes to clear it →
Cited forLeaning, broken or missing fencing along the lot line.
What it takes to clear it →
Cited forA rear porch or deck the inspector marked dangerous and hazardous.
What it takes to clear it →
Cited forHeaved or broken walks, or paving that drains back toward the building.
What it takes to clear it →
Cited forBroken panes, rotted sashes, or frames that no longer close and lock.
What it takes to clear it →Photographs show what each item looks like once it is right. Your notice may word it slightly differently, so if nothing here matches, send us the notice and we will read it.
More of our work
Filter by trade. Every shot is one of our jobs, labelled as the condition we found or the work we finished.
The problem is not the bricks. It is the arithmetic.
Chicago has tens of thousands of open building violations at any moment, across more than eleven thousand buildings. Almost none of those notices list a single problem. They list a wall, a porch, three windows, a gutter and a permit item, and they attach one deadline to the lot.
The trades are organised the opposite way. A mason quotes the wall. A roofer quotes the roof. Nobody owns the notice. So the owner ends up managing a job they never wanted, chasing five companies, taking calls at work, and watching the deadline get closer while nothing actually closes.
We built this company around the notice instead of around a trade. We self-perform 20 of them, all the masonry included, and keep licensed partners for plumbing, heating and electrical because the law reserves those.
What you can expect
We read your citation before we quote it
Every proposal maps line by line to what the department wrote. If something is not on the notice, we say so and let you decide, rather than quietly folding it into the number.
We tell you what we do not do
Three trades go to licensed partners. You will hear that on the first visit, not halfway through a job that is already behind.
We show you the ugly ones too
Look through our work. The fire damage, the hoarding, the gutted basements, the rotted framing. We publish the condition we walk into, not only the finished kitchen.
We finish at the sign-off, not the scaffold
Re-inspections booked, inspector met on site, documentation package in your hand. That is the deliverable you are actually buying.
You have seen the work. Now see your number.
Type your address and we come out and price every item on the notice. Free, and you are under no obligation to use us.
Licensed and insured. A person answers, Monday to Saturday.