Salt Lake City, Utah
Salt Lake City homes, finished the Salty way.
Salt Lake City is core schedule territory for us — the same crew, the same calendar and the same standard of finish you would get anywhere else in the county. Handyman days, remodels, saunas, accessibility work and commercial punch lists.
Services in Salt Lake City
Handyman and remodel help for Salt Lake City — and the rest of Salt Lake County
The city sits in the middle of our normal week. Bungalows in Sugar House, brick in the Avenues, split-levels on the west side — different houses, same habits: we scope what is actually behind the wall, and we finish the last ten percent. Usually there is a day on the calendar within the week.
Five things we do, all of them available in Salt Lake City. Each one has a page of its own with the detail, the process and the questions people actually ask.
Handyman Services
A half day or a full day of a licensed professional working through the list a Salt Lake City house generates — doors that have not been square since the Truman administration, plaster cracks, mounting, fixtures, caulk — in one visit.
Request handyman helpRemodels
Kitchens, baths and basements in houses that were built before anything came square, scoped in writing and billed against progress so you always know which stage you are in.
Start a project estimateSaunas & wellness spaces
Kit assembly, custom indoor and outdoor builds, heater swaps and repair — including the tight basement and garage corners a city lot leaves you to work with.
Talk saunas with usAging in place
City houses put the bath upstairs and the entry up a flight of steps, which is the whole problem in one sentence. We anchor to real structure behind the plaster and match the original trim so none of it announces itself.
Request an accessibility consultCommercial & tenant improvements
Tenant improvements, retail and office build-outs and punch-list close-out downtown and along the city business corridors, including off-hours work in spaces that are still open.
Request a commercial estimateBungalows and cottages
Kitchens, baths and basements in Salt Lake City’s oldest houses
Salt Lake City has the oldest housing in the valley: pre-war bungalows and cottages through Yalecrest, the Avenues, the streets around Sugar House and the lower east bench. Those plans mean a small kitchen, one bathroom, and a basement nobody meant to live in.
Decades of added plumbing and wiring sit behind the plaster, and some supply and drain lines are still the originals. The estimate itemizes the work and marks which prices only firm up once demolition opens a wall. Our remodel page covers the rest.
Small kitchens in old footprints
The original kitchen was laid out for a different way of cooking: narrow, with the back door in the middle of the only good wall. There is more room to recover than people expect once the partition to the dining room is counted. Walls carrying the roof or floor above stay, and the layout is drawn around them.
The one-bathroom house
Plenty still have the single bath they were built with. Back to the framing it goes, then new board, waterproofing, and tile. A second bath comes out of space the house already has, usually a basement corner near the stack. The house itself does not get bigger.
Basements with low ceilings
Head height down there is whatever the original builder left, and ducts and drain lines were hung under the joists where they were easiest to reach. We measure what is left once framing, lighting and a ceiling take their cut. A bathroom or a wet bar works wherever the drain and the vent can reach. If the room will not be worth having, we say so.
New cabinets on old walls
Plaster over wood lath does not hold a straight line and these floors have had a long time to settle, so shims and fillers are planned in. New cabinets mean the old ones leave: the boxes come out whole, what they hid gets made good, and counters are templated after the run is set.
A number of these streets sit inside historic districts. We ask Salt Lake City what your address and scope require before anything comes off a wall, and the permit can sit in Salty’s name or in yours.
What a visit looks like
Four steps, and none of them involve chasing us.
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Send the list
Call, text or use the form with whatever detail you have — a Salt Lake City address, a rough idea, or a photo of the thing that has been bugging you since March.
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We come back to you
A real reply from a person, usually inside 12–24 hours, with real questions about the scope before anybody quotes a number.
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We come and look
For anything past a quick fix we walk it with you. City site visits are an ordinary part of the week — tell us about the access and the parking and we plan around it rather than discovering it on the day.
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Estimate, then the calendar
Line by line: what it takes, what it costs, what is excluded. You accept, it goes on the schedule, and we finish the punch list.
Nearby
The city is one stop on a county-wide week.
Salt Lake County is home base, and we are in most of it most weeks. Wasatch and Summit County — Heber, Midway, Park City — run on the same schedule with the same crew.
Questions
Salt Lake City, specifically.
Do you only work the south valley?
No. Salty is a Salt Lake County business and Salt Lake City is squarely inside the ordinary schedule — the Avenues, Sugar House, Capitol Hill, Liberty Wells, Rose Park and the rest of it, along with the full county, plus Wasatch and Summit. Whichever part of the valley you are in, it is the same crew, the same calendar and the same standard of finish.
Is Salt Lake City on your regular schedule?
Yes — it is core territory, not an exception we fit in. Salt Lake City sits inside the ordinary week along with the rest of Salt Lake County, Wasatch and Summit. The only thing your address changes is which day we are already working nearby.
Will you take one small job?
There is a 2-hour minimum on service visits, and past that we book by the half day or the full day depending on what your list needs. If your list is genuinely one small item, tell us anyway — we can often fold it into a visit already scheduled nearby.
Is what I want handyman work or a remodel?
Rough line: if it fits inside a booked day or two and nobody is moving a wall, a pipe or a circuit, it is handyman work. Once the layout changes, the cabinets come out or the tile goes in, it is a remodel — scoped in writing and scheduled in stages. We sell both, so describe it and we will tell you straight which one it is.
Do you work on older city houses?
Regularly. Much of the housing stock inside the city is pre-war — lath and plaster, settled framing, basements with headroom that was never generous, and a previous owner who had a go at it in 1987. We scope what is actually there rather than what the plan would suggest, and we say so when opening a wall is the honest answer.
Can you put a second bathroom in an older city house?
Sometimes, and only inside the house as it stands: most often a corner of the basement where the existing stack and vent make it workable. We measure the space and the head height, tell you honestly whether it is worth doing, and price it line by line. What we do not do is make the house bigger to find the room.
These basements are low. Is finishing one worth it?
That depends on the number we get on the tape before anything is framed. Ducts and drain lines usually hang below the joists, and framing, lighting and a ceiling all take their share of what is left. If the finished height will make a poor room, you hear that rather than a quote for one. Where it does work, a bathroom or a wet bar can go in with it.
What our clients say about us
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AMAZING job! He was very detailed and thorough.
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Romas saved my sauna! He was professional, knowledgeable, clean and took care of my broken sauna heater. I would absolutely hire him again.
Request an estimate
Tell us what is going on in Salt Lake City.
The list, the room, or the sauna heater that stopped working. Send whatever detail you have and we will come back with questions, then a number.
- A real reply from a person, usually inside 12–24 hours
- Photos help more than you would think — add them with the upload button
- Salt Lake City, the rest of Salt Lake County, Wasatch and Summit
2-hour minimum on service visits.
Your turn
City list, Salty crew.
Handyman days, remodels and saunas across Salt Lake County. Send it over and we will tell you what it takes.