The basement the builder left for you.
Saw Dog Construction finishes basements in Erie, CO, including newer homes the builder left unfinished. Our team designs the layout, files the permit with the Town of Erie, builds the space, and stays through the town's inspection. The work carries our 2-year workmanship warranty.
Walk Vista Ridge, Colliers Hill or Flatiron Meadows and the story repeats. Good house, unfinished basement, a backyard that is still just grass. Westerly, Compass and Erie Highlands are in the same chapter. The builder delivered the house. The basement was left for you. Finishing it early means you get to use the space the whole time you own the home.
Old Town Erie is a different house than Colliers Hill, and we scope it that way. The permit path inside town limits is still the Town of Erie. More of the town, from Canyon Creek and Erie Commons to Kenosha Estates, is on our Erie page. The new-build version of this conversation is Finishing the Basement in a New Erie Home.
Erie straddles the Boulder County and Weld County line. Inside town limits, that does not change who permits the basement. Home projects go through the Town of Erie, and we file and manage that permit. Our permitted work in Erie is already in the public record, through final inspection.
A typical full finish takes 6 to 10 weeks after the permit is approved. How long the town spends on review is separate from the build schedule. You get the schedule up front.
This is the question we hear most from Erie owners in a new house. Our basement work is permitted and inspected, and it carries its own 2-year workmanship warranty. Bring your builder's warranty terms to the free estimate and we will scope the project so everything stays clean.
If a bedroom is going downstairs, building codes generally require an emergency escape opening. Below grade that is usually an egress window with a well, installed under the same Town of Erie permit.
Open framing on one job, and a finished media wall with the accent lights on.
The basement is the part the builder left for you, so the finish gets its own estimate. Our planning average for a full base finish is about $80 per square foot. Bathrooms are $12,000 and up. A from-scratch egress window is $7,000. The written, itemized estimate is the number you actually decide on, and it is free.
Planning numbers, not a quote. See the basement finishing cost page on SawDog.net for the 800, 1,000 and 1,200 square foot examples, and basement finishing for how the build is scoped.