Hempfield covers 77 square miles around Greensburg, from subdivisions on gas lines to older houses on oil heat and septic. Whatever your kitchen sits on, our carpenters plan around it and build the room your household needs next.
Hempfield Kitchens
Hempfield is big and mixed: four in ten homes have no utility gas, the 1970s added more houses than any other decade, one home in five has at least nine rooms, and four in ten owners are past 65. Six kitchens that come out of those numbers.
Only 61 percent of Hempfield homes are on utility gas for heat. Fourteen percent burn fuel oil and a fifth run on electricity, which leaves a lot of township kitchens with no gas pipe anywhere in the house to cook with.
There the usual answer is induction: as quick as gas, easy to wipe down, and fed by its own circuit from the panel. Want a flame instead? A propane supplier sets a tank, and we plan the line into the layout.
Ventilation and cookingThe 1970s built more Hempfield homes than any other decade, close to one in five, and the township's median house dates to 1971. A kitchen of that age may have been patched more than once, and owners want it done properly this time.
We open it up expecting older wiring, tired drain lines and earlier owners' fixes, and price those in before the finishes. New cabinets then go onto straight walls and a sound subfloor, so the job holds for the next fifty years.
What we find in older kitchensOne Hempfield home in five has at least nine rooms, plenty of space for a crowd. If yours hosts the whole family at Thanksgiving, the goal is a kitchen that can feed twenty without three people fighting over the same counter.
A second oven stacked in the wall, a prep sink away from the main one, a long island with seats on the far side, and a coffee and drinks station set out of the cook's way. Pantry cabinets hold the extra.
Islands and pantriesForty-one percent of Hempfield's homeowners are 65 or older, and about a quarter have owned the house since before 1990. They know it works for them, and what they want is a kitchen that keeps working as the years go on.
A dishwasher raised off the floor, pull-down shelves in the upper cabinets, D-shaped pulls that are easy to grip, and a cooktop with its controls at the front. Small changes, each one mattering a little more every year.
Kitchen layoutsThirty-nine percent of Hempfield owners arrived in 2010 or since, moving into homes that were already decades old when they signed. If the kitchen was on your list from the first showing, this is the room to start with.
We start from what the house already gives you: where the plumbing, gas or oil line and the panel sit. A layout that works with them costs less than one that fights them, and we show you the difference in the estimate.
Kitchen cost rangesAbout a quarter of Hempfield households have children at home. For them the kitchen is breakfast in shifts, homework after school and snacks at all hours, and parents want a room that can take all of it without falling apart.
Seats along the island where the kids are in view of the cook, a drawer of plates and cups they can reach themselves, outlets for chargers on the island, and surfaces that clean up with a wipe.
Islands and seatingFigures: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024, Hempfield Township; the city and the six boroughs it surrounds are counted separately.
The rest of the job
How it runs, what it costs and who builds it are on our main kitchen remodeling page.
A Kitchen in the Township
Hempfield's permit office takes its time, its crews work by the daylight, and its houses split between public sewer and their own septic systems. Together they decide the start date and the length of the workday.
30 daysBuilding permit review, business days
Shifting a wall or rerouting plumbing, gas or electrical work puts a kitchen under a building permit, and Hempfield allows itself as long as 30 business days to issue one, about six weeks. We send the application the week the drawings are finished, so the review runs while cabinets are being built.
Hempfield Township FAQ (opens in a new tab)DaylightTownship contractor hours
The township lets contractors keep working from first light to dark, all year. In June that is a long day; in December it is a short one. A kitchen job that runs through winter takes more calendar days for the same work, so we schedule the loud and messy stages around it.
Hempfield Township FAQ (opens in a new tab)MAWCPublic sewer since 2016
Public sewer here has belonged to MAWC, the county authority, since it bought the township system in 2016. Homes off the sewer have their own septic systems, overseen by a township sewage officer. With a tank in the yard, talk to whoever pumps it before a disposal goes in.
Hempfield Township FAQ (opens in a new tab)Kitchen Questions
Five questions township households ask before a kitchen job starts. How a kitchen remodel runs from start to finish is laid out on our kitchen service.
Ask a QuestionIt runs with the work. A same-layout kitchen with new cabinets and counters sits at one end of our range; moving a wall, bringing in propane or rewiring for induction sits at the other. You get a written number after we have walked the room; typical ranges are posted with our kitchen service.
Kitchen cost rangesFurther than you might expect. A permitted kitchen can wait as long as 30 business days for the township's review, so the paperwork should start about the time you choose cabinets. Once the permit is issued, the build itself runs on the schedule we hand you with the estimate, step by step.
How a kitchen job runsYes. Hempfield's own FAQ says new windows need no township permit, so swapping the window over the sink can ride along with the kitchen job without adding to the review. Cutting the wall to make the opening bigger is structural work, though, and that goes into the building permit with the rest.
Hempfield Township FAQ (opens in a new tab)Quite possibly. Hempfield wraps around the City of Greensburg and six boroughs, from Youngwood and New Stanton to Adamsburg and Arona, and each one runs its own permits. A Greensburg address can sit on either side of the line, so we check the parcel before filing anything.
Kitchen remodeling in GreensburgWhen the kitchen is permitted work, yes. Hempfield's own building inspectors handle residential inspections, not an outside firm, and we meet them on site at each stage. One thing to know: once the township issues a permit, the project has to start within six months, so we file when the start date is firm.
Hempfield Township FAQ (opens in a new tab)Other Services
Across Hempfield the same carpenters finish lower levels, add second baths and put roofs over back patios. Every card leads to that service's page.
Bathroom RemodelingFull gut renovations with proper waterproofing, new framing, and tile set by hand.View Service
Attic FinishingUnused attics framed into bedrooms and offices: subfloor, insulation, drywall, and a proper stair.View Service
Basement FinishingUnfinished basements turned into real rooms: framed, insulated, drywalled, and finished by our crew.View Service
Additions & ADUsAdditions and accessory dwelling units (ADUs), framed from the ground up and tied in clean.View Service
Windows & Exterior DoorsWindows and exterior doors set, flashed, and trimmed so water stays out of the wall.View Service
Exterior Restoration & Structural RepairsRotted trim and siding, sagging joists, failed sills: opened up and repaired to solid wood.View Service
Decks & Covered PatiosDecks, covered patios and three-season rooms, flashed to the house and built for Westmoreland winters.View ServiceVerified Google Reviews
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