Next door to our Westminster shop.
Saw Dog Construction finishes basements in Thornton, CO. We're based in Westminster, next door, and our team designs the layout, files the permit with the City of Thornton, builds the space, and stays through the city's inspections. A typical full finish takes 6 to 10 weeks after the permit is approved, and the work carries our 2-year workmanship warranty.
Thornton grew fast through the 2000s, and a lot of those two-stories are still sitting on an open basement. Drive Hunters Glen, Eastlake or Signal Creek and the pattern shows up block after block. The mechanicals are usually where you would expect, and the job is a finish.
Lewis Pointe, Trail Winds and Cherrywood Park are in the same spot. Heritage Todd Creek is the neighborhood that asks for something else. It is a 55+ community, and the requests there lean toward bathrooms and main-floor updates. That work gets the same City of Thornton permit and the same 2-year workmanship warranty.
We also cover Quail Valley, Fallbrook Farms, Springvale, Quebec Highlands, Northbrook and The Haven at York Street, plus nearby Todd Creek, Welby and Sherrelwood. We're a licensed and insured residential general contractor, based in Westminster, and we've been finishing basements since 2015. The longer write-up is Finishing a Basement in a 2000s Thornton Home.
Our team walks the basement with you, writes the estimate, and stays the point of contact. Saw Dog Construction is based in Westminster, CO. Thornton is next door, which matters on walkthrough day and on punch-list day.
We walk the space and talk through a rec room, a bedroom, a bathroom, a wet bar, or some mix of those. You get a written, itemized estimate. No commitment.
We lock the layout and the finishes, then file with the City of Thornton. Thornton sits in Adams County and runs its own building permits. You don't have to learn the city's portal.
Framing through flooring. A typical full finish takes 6 to 10 weeks after the permit is approved. The city's review time sits before that clock. You get a schedule up front and updates as the phases change.
The City of Thornton inspects the work. We walk the finished space with you. The workmanship warranty is 2 years, and the written terms come with the contract.
Building codes generally require a basement sleeping room to have an emergency escape and rescue opening. An egress window with a well is the usual way to meet that. We plan the bedroom and the window as one permitted project, so the opening lands where the room actually wants it. Exact size, well and sill height depend on the code edition. We confirm what applies to your house in the estimate.
Bedrooms and living space are part of the base finish. A bathroom is built in the same project and priced on its own, because of the fixtures, tile and fan. The Thornton page covers the rest of the work we do in the city, from kitchens to decks.
A finished rec room, a glass-shower bath, and the mechanical rough-in while the walls are still open.
A full basement finish averages about $80 per square foot. A bathroom adds $12,000 and up, and a from-scratch egress window is $7,000. At the base rate, about 800 square feet is about $64,000, about 1,000 square feet is about $80,000, and about 1,200 square feet is about $96,000. Those are our planning numbers, not a quote.
The written, itemized estimate sets the real price. Square footage, a bathroom, finish level and site conditions all show up there before you commit. The full size math is on the basement finishing cost page on SawDog.net. The main basement finishing page covers the metro-wide scope.