Home repairs & remodeling in La Grange

Porches, repairs and remodels in La Grange

We work in La Grange every week. I-294 and Ogden Avenue get us there, and La Grange Road and 47th Street take us through downtown and out to the side streets. ONIT Solutions handles repairs, remodeling, porches and decks in Cook County with one crew. You call one number, and one company owns the result.

Work in La Grange ranges from porch steps and columns to bathrooms, kitchens and full repaints. We visit, look at the job, and write a free estimate with a clear scope. Once you approve it, we pull any permit the village requires and set the schedule. If the old work hides damage, like rot under a porch floor or a bad subfloor under a toilet, we price the fix in writing before we touch it.

Front porches and downtown La Grange

La Grange has a downtown along La Grange Road with Metra service in the middle of it, and residential streets where front porches are a familiar sight. A porch is the first thing people see and the part of the house that takes the most weather. Floor boards, steps, railings and the bottoms of columns sit in rain and snow, and they fail from the bottom up.

Fixing a porch right means finding where the water gets in. We check the framing under the floor, the column bases and the footings before we price the job, because new boards over rotten joists do not last. Where the structure is sound, we replace what failed and paint it. Where it is not, we rebuild with treated framing, flashing where the porch meets the house, and railings and steps built to code.

Porch columns, steps and railings in La Grange

Porch columns carry the roof, so a rotted base is a structural problem, not a cosmetic one. We support the roof temporarily, repair or replace the column, and set it on a base that keeps water off the wood. Steps get rebuilt with even risers and treads deep enough to be safe, and railings go back at code height. Work that touches the structure goes through the village permit process, and we handle that.

Paint is the last step and the one that protects everything else. We prime every cut end and bare surface before the finish coats, caulk where trim meets trim, and paint the underside of the floor boards where we can reach them. Exterior painting runs spring to fall, so we schedule porch painting inside that window.

Why La Grange homeowners hire ONIT Solutions

• We check porch framing and footings before we quote.
• Column bases get rebuilt to keep water off the wood.
• Steps and railings are built to code.
• We handle the village permit and the inspections.
• You get a free estimate in writing before any work.
• Ask for our insurance certificate and you will have it before we start.