Philadelphia
Philadelphia Renovation Contractors Vetted by Block
06.25.2026
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Philadelphia has some of the oldest housing stock in the country, and that shapes nearly every renovation here. Rowhouses share party walls with the neighbors, so a kitchen wall or a relocated bathroom stack can involve the house next door. Twins, trinities, and stone Colonials out in the suburbs come with knob-and-tube wiring, plaster over lath, and additions framed long before current codes existed. A contractor who works these homes well has usually opened up enough floors and walls to know what tends to hide behind them.
Pennsylvania does not issue a state general contractor license, which puts more of the vetting on the homeowner. The contractors below all work renovation projects across Philadelphia and the surrounding counties through the Block Renovation network, with specialties that run from full gut rehabs to kitchen and bathroom remodels, restoration after water and fire damage, and ground-up additions. Block's guide to home renovation costs across greater Philadelphia is a useful starting point for setting a budget before you reach out.

Water and fire damage do not wait for a convenient time, and Reliable Restoration Family built its business around that. Owner Nick Fagan handles the emergency side, fire and water and storm and sewage, then keeps the same crew on for the rebuild, so a homeowner is not signing one contract for cleanup and a second for the remodel that follows.
It is a young firm, founded in 2024 after the two partners spent five years at an established restoration company. They also take on standard remodels and the occasional rowhouse-to-multi-unit conversion.
Address: 4500 Worth Street, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/people/Reliable-Restoration-Family

More than 500 completed projects sit behind Superb Home Remodeling since it opened in 2017. The firm works out of Northeast Philadelphia, covers the suburbs and into northern Delaware, and keeps design, materials, and construction in-house, so a homeowner is not refereeing between a designer and a builder. Financing is available for clients who want to spread a bigger project out.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/superbhomeremodeling

Golden Brick Construction works with homeowners and real estate investors in the same week, which keeps it fluent in budgets and scope. The investor jobs, flips and full gut renovations, run on the same planning discipline as a homeowner's kitchen, and the firm covers Philadelphia, the Main Line, Bucks, Montgomery, and Delaware counties.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GoldenBrickConstruction

Beaver Building & Remodeling has worked the same stretch of Montgomery and Bucks counties since 1985, and it still runs largely on referrals. Kevin Focht took ownership in 2014 and kept the in-house model, so the electricians, framers, and finish carpenters on a job are payroll employees, not subs pulled in for the week.
The work carries a lifetime workmanship warranty and an A+ rating with the Better Business Bureau, and the office keeps Saturday hours for homeowners who can only meet on a weekend.
Address: 115 E Butler Ave, Chalfont, PA 18914
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BeaverBuildingRemodeling
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A&Z General Contractor is a family shop in Lansdale, going on 20 years in Montgomery County, where the person who quotes your job is the one who runs it to the end.
Address: Fairview Ave, Lansdale, PA 19446
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AZHOMEREMODEL

D1 Contracting sticks close to a handful of Northwest Philadelphia neighborhoods: Wyndmoor, Chestnut Hill, Mount Airy, Lafayette Hill, Flourtown. The Wyndmoor base means it already knows how Springfield and Whitemarsh townships handle permits, which is half the battle on a kitchen remodel or a full renovation in this part of the city. Estimates are free, and the team usually texts back within a few minutes.
Address: Wyndmoor, PA 19038, US

Four decades in the trade back XactBuildPro, a licensed general contractor running out of Willow Grove and across Montgomery County and the Main Line. The pitch is project management from first call to final walkthrough, and on the right job they move fast, turning some full gut renovations around in two months or less.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/XactBuildllc

JV Home Remodeling is women-owned and family-run, led by Jamie Hill out of Bala Cynwyd, working both sides of the river in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Close to a decade in, the team carries lead-safe certification, which matters on the older houses where a bathroom renovation means disturbing original paint.
Address: 2 Bala Plaza Suite 300 Bala Cynwyd PA 19004
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/remodelwithjv

Bathini Construction Group runs commercial and residential work out of North Wales, and the range shows in the jobs. One recent project gutted and rebuilt a grocery store, from the ceiling and ductwork down to new refrigeration and a full kitchen line. The next might be a custom home or a Montgomery County basement, handled by the same small team that has worked the area since 2015.

Today Homescaping brings a woodworker's eye to renovation. David Devlin has run the Sellersville shop for more than two decades, and the same crew that finishes a basement will also build the custom table, the built-ins, and, on occasion, a business sign for a local storefront. Decks and pergolas fall under the same roof, and yes, so does snow removal for regular clients.
Address: Sellersville, PA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/todayhomescaping

The Golden Hand has a wall of local awards, including several years of Main Line Parent's Best Home Renovator honors. Alix Friedman started it as a one-person operation in Chester Springs and grew it into a team that will hang a single shelf or gut a kitchen, and bill the small jobs as readily as the big ones.
Address: 210 Three Tun Rd Malvern, PA 19355
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thegoldenhand/

Vene Construction is Lorenzo and Yamild Perez, a father-and-son outfit that runs its own trades instead of farming them out to subs. They work the Lehigh Valley out of Bethlehem and Catasauqua and come down into Montgomery County and Philadelphia for bigger residential and commercial jobs. The work carries a one-year workmanship warranty.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Veneconsllc

Freeland Contractors runs plumbing alongside full renovations, handy when a bathroom remodel comes down to what is behind the wall. The Easton firm covers the Lehigh Valley and is registered in Pennsylvania.
Address: 40 South 4th St, Suite 2A Easton, PA 18042
Tell Block your renovation details once, and the area's best contractors compete for your project, whether it is a Fishtown rowhouse kitchen or a Main Line primary bath. Every scope gets reviewed by Block experts and AI tools to catch missing line items and red flags before quotes come back. Philadelphia-area homeowners come to Block for kitchen and bathroom remodels, whole-home renovations, additions, basement finishing, and restoration after water or fire damage.
Payments run through a progress-based schedule, so contractors are paid as work gets done. Every contractor in the Block network backs the work with a one-year workmanship warranty, and Block project planners respond to review requests within one business day.
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Written by Cheyenne Howard
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