General contractor in Cleveland Heights, Ohio

Cleveland Heights is plaster, two-families, and a Thursday board. The estimate on a kitchen often includes what we will find in the wall. The estimate on siding always includes ABR.

Severance is a commercial landmark, not a permit shortcut. Coventry is a street. The department is the portal. If you want to pull your own homeowner permit, that is your right on an occupied 1–3 family for the work the city allows — it is not a way to skip registering the people you hire.

Plaster on wood lath is the default when we open a Heights wall. Budget for it as a condition, not as a disaster. Two-families mean a neighbor on the other side of a party wall. ABR on Zoom is still ABR: elevations, windows, siding, roofs, decks, solar. Retroactive review at 3× the fee is the city telling you not to start. We listen.

The $10,000 surety bond is a city form. A Pepper Pike bond does not photocopy onto it. CitizenServe is the filing. We register hired trades. We do not let an owner’s homeowner permit cover a plumber.

Housing stock

This is the plaster-on-lath city on the list. Two-families, tight lots, original wood windows, brick chimneys, unfinished or damp basements, knob-and-tube in walls we open for kitchens. Cedar Fairmount and Coventry are commercial nodes; the houses behind them are the job.

A siding job here is an ABR job. A matching interior floor is not. The density means neighbors hear compressors — we still follow the city’s process, not Beachwood’s noise clock, unless the ordinance says otherwise.