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The Cost Tool

Home Project Cost Estimator

Three steps, thirty seconds, one honest budgeting range — for kitchens, baths, basements, roofing, flooring, decks, additions, and painting.

1 What are you planning?

2 Describe the scope

3 Choose your finish level

Materials and finishes are the single biggest swing factor in any renovation budget.

Your Ballpark Estimate

For budgeting only. This is a ballpark planning range based on typical Lehigh Valley project costs — not a binding quote. Your final price depends on an on-site assessment, material choices, existing conditions, and current contractor rates.

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How to use your estimate

Your ballpark range is a planning tool — here's how to put it to work:

  1. Set your budget ceiling at the top of the range, not the bottom. Surprises live below the surface of every renovation.
  2. Request three written quotes through our quote form and compare them item by item — our guide to reading contractor estimates shows you how.
  3. Ask what moves the number. Labor rates, material grades, permits, and existing conditions (old wiring, water damage) are the usual swing factors in the Lehigh Valley.

What this tool is — and isn't

The estimator draws on typical project costs for the Allentown area. It cannot see your home, measure your rooms, or know what lurks behind your drywall — so it will never be a substitute for a contractor's written quote. Treat it as the first number in your planning spreadsheet, not the last.