Home Additions & Dormers in Levittown, NY
You need more room and moving is worse than building. Khella has built in Nassau County since 2006 and files Levittown work with Town of Hempstead Building Department. Our office is here, on Solar Lane.
Adding on in Levittown
This is the Levittown job. Shed and full dormers on original Levitt capes, adding two proper bedrooms and a bath upstairs. We have done enough of them to know what is inside the walls.
Shed and full dormers, second storeys, rear extensions and in-law suites, engineered to carry properly on the house you already have.
We survey the existing framing and foundation before drawing anything, so nobody promises you a bedroom the house cannot carry.
- Permit filed with Town of Hempstead Building Department, and jurisdiction confirmed before drawings
- Structural survey of the existing framing and foundation before design
- Shed dormers, full dormers and full second-storey additions
- Rear and side extensions, in-law and accessory apartments
- Steel and LVL beam work where the span calls for it
- Roof, siding and window matching so the addition does not announce itself
- Phasing that keeps the house liveable and weather-tight throughout
- No flood-map complication on most Levittown parcels — we confirm it anyway
Your existing
house is the
first constraint.
An addition is a structural question before it is a design one. What Levittown houses were originally built to carry, and what town of Hempstead Building Department will approve, together decide how much room you actually get.
- What you are adding onto
The original Levitt houses, built between roughly 1947 and 1951 — small capes and ranches designed with an unfinished expandable second floor.
- Who reviews the addition
- Town of Hempstead Building Department
Unincorporated Town of Hempstead. Hempstead is the largest township in the country by population and its permit queue reflects that, so we file early.
- What most often forces a redesign
Levitt built these houses to be expanded, with the attic framed for future bedrooms. Sixty years on, that original design intent is exactly why dormer work here is so common and so predictable.
Levittown
questions,
answered.
Can I put a dormer or second storey on my Levittown house?
Usually, but the existing structure decides. This is the Levittown job. Shed and full dormers on original Levitt capes, adding two proper bedrooms and a bath upstairs. We have done enough of them to know what is inside the walls.
Will an addition in Levittown need a variance?
Levitt built these houses to be expanded, with the attic framed for future bedrooms. Sixty years on, that original design intent is exactly why dormer work here is so common and so predictable. We check setbacks and lot coverage against town of Hempstead Building Department requirements before design, so a variance is a deliberate choice rather than a surprise three months in.
What kind of house am I adding onto?
The original Levitt houses, built between roughly 1947 and 1951 — small capes and ranches designed with an unfinished expandable second floor. That original construction determines whether the foundation and framing can carry a second floor, which is the first thing we survey.
Can we stay in the house during the work?
Usually yes. We phase so the house stays weather-tight and liveable, keep the dust contained, and sequence the roof opening around the forecast rather than the calendar.
Does an addition trigger anything else in Levittown?
It can. Inland and clear. In Suffolk, adding a bedroom or bathroom can also trigger a County sanitary upgrade. Both get checked at estimate stage, not at inspection.