Utah's City of Trees · 84062
General Contractor in Pleasant Grove, Utah
Pleasant Grove has two kinds of houses and they need two very different contractors. The homes around historic downtown want someone who's comfortable opening a wall and finding something unexpected. The newer bench subdivisions above Battle Creek want clean, efficient basement finishing. Royal Blue Build does both, and we scope them differently on purpose.
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Remodeling in Pleasant Grove
Pleasant Grove is really two remodeling markets in one city. Downtown, the work is older-home renovation: outdated kitchens, undersized bathrooms, knob-and-tube-era wiring, and basements with low ceilings and stone foundations that need a careful hand. Up on the bench in Mahogany Hills and Big Springs, it's straightforward modern basement finishing in homes that were framed to accept it.
The homes here
Pleasant Grove has a genuine split — century-old homes around the historic downtown core, mid-century houses through the middle of town, and 1990s-through-2010s subdivisions climbing the east bench. Population is about 38,000. That mix determines what most projects in this city actually involve — and it's why an estimate that ignores the age and construction of your specific home isn't worth much.
Neighborhoods we serve
We work throughout Pleasant Grove, including Manila, Grove Creek, Battle Creek, Mahogany Hills, Big Springs, and Downtown Historic District. If you're near Battle Creek Falls trailhead or Historic Downtown Pleasant Grove, we're just up the road.
Why work with a local contractor
Proximity changes the quality of the work, which is why we're based right here. Being local to Pleasant Grove means we can get out for an estimate quickly, respond when something needs attention mid-project, and come back to finish punch-list items without scheduling it weeks out.
Permits in Pleasant Grove
Historic-district properties near downtown can carry extra review, and older Pleasant Grove basements frequently need ceiling height and egress addressed before a bedroom is permitted. Bench-area homes are typically a much simpler permit path.
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Our services in Pleasant Grove
Basement Finishing
Your basement is already framed, already under roof, and already connected to utilities. Finishing it costs a fraction of building an addition and a small fraction of moving — and in a market this tight, that math is hard to argue with.
$35–$75 per finished square foot
Learn moreBasement Apartments
A rentable basement is the cheapest legal housing unit you can add to a house, because the foundation, roof, walls and utilities already exist. We build them permitted, so a lender, an appraiser, and an insurer can all see the unit.
$45,000–$110,000 for a complete legal unit
Learn moreDetached ADUs & Backyard Cottages
A standalone unit in the backyard: its own foundation, roof, kitchen, and address. Utah law now requires most cities to permit one on lots of 11,000 square feet or more. It's the more expensive of the two ways to add a rental, and sometimes it's the right one.
$190–$350 per square foot
Learn moreEgress Window Installation
An egress window is the code-required escape route from a basement sleeping room — and the thing that lets the room count as a bedroom when your house is appraised or listed. If you don't have one yet, it's the first move.
$3,500–$7,500 per window, installed
Learn moreKitchen Remodeling
Kitchens carry more daily friction than any other room. A bad layout costs you every single day — and it's the room buyers judge hardest when you sell.
$25,000–$85,000+ depending on scope
Learn moreBathroom Remodeling
Bathrooms are the least forgiving room in the house. Waterproofing that's done wrong doesn't announce itself — it shows up two years later as a stain on the ceiling below.
$12,000–$40,000+ depending on size and scope
Learn moreWhole Home Remodeling
Sometimes the issue isn't the kitchen or the bathroom — it's a floor plan built for how people lived in 1978. Whole-home remodeling reworks how the house actually functions.
Highly variable — most projects start around $60,000
Learn moreFlooring Installation
Flooring failures almost always trace back to what's underneath — an unlevel subfloor, moisture in a slab, or a missing expansion gap. We deal with the substrate first.
$4–$16 per square foot installed depending on material
Learn moreInterior Painting
Paint is the cheapest way to change how a house feels. It's also the job most often done badly, because the prep that determines the result is the part nobody sees.
$3–$7 per square foot of floor area for full interiors
Learn moreFinish Carpentry & Trim
Trim is what makes a room read as finished. Tight miters, consistent reveals, and proportion appropriate to the ceiling height are the difference between builder-grade and custom.
Quoted by project
Learn moreDrywall Repair & Texture
Bad drywall repair is worse than the hole. Matching existing texture and getting the paint to blend is what separates a repair you notice from one you don't.
$200–$1,200 for typical repairs
Learn moreHandyman Services
Most people have a running list of small jobs that never justify a full contractor call but never get done either. We do those — with the same care and the same written scope as our large projects.
Hourly or flat-rate by job, quoted before we start
Learn morePleasant Grove — common questions
- Do you serve all of Pleasant Grove?
- Yes — the whole city, including Manila, Grove Creek, Battle Creek, Mahogany Hills, across ZIP 84062. We're local to Pleasant Grove, so we can usually get out for an estimate within a few days.
- What does a basement cost to finish in Pleasant Grove?
- Most basements in this area run $35 to $75 per finished square foot. Where a Pleasant Grove home lands depends on bathroom count, whether the builder stubbed in plumbing, whether egress windows need to be cut, and finish level. Given that the housing here is a genuine split — century-old homes around the historic downtown core, mid-century houses through the middle of town, and 1990s-through-2010s subdivisions climbing the east bench, we'll know a lot about what to expect before we even walk in — but the estimate comes after we actually look.
- Do I need a permit in Pleasant Grove?
- Historic-district properties near downtown can carry extra review, and older Pleasant Grove basements frequently need ceiling height and egress addressed before a bedroom is permitted. Bench-area homes are typically a much simpler permit path.
Planning a project in Pleasant Grove?
Get a real number you can plan around. We're local to Pleasant Grove, so scheduling is usually days rather than weeks.
- Pricing Published Up Front
- Orem to Lehi
- One Point of Contact