A Plum kitchen answers to two offices: the borough for the walls, and Allegheny County for every pipe. Whether yours came with a sixties house in Holiday Park or a 1920s company home above the river, our carpenters plan for both.
Plum Kitchens
Plum's population over doubled between 1960 and 1970, and that decade still accounts for one home in four. Around those sit 1920s mine houses, family-sized homes and plenty of long-time owners. Here is what each of them tends to want from a kitchen, and how it gets built.
Holiday Park began going up in 1959, and one Plum home in four standing today dates from the 1960s. If yours has only had a new countertop or two since, what you probably want now is the counter space and storage the original layout never had.
We carry the wall cabinets up to the ceiling, turn the old table spot into a peninsula or island where the room allows, and run new circuits for everything the 1960s never planned on: microwave, dishwasher, coffee maker.
Full kitchen remodelsLogans Ferry Heights began around 1920 as housing for the mine of the same name, and residents bought their homes from the company in 1949. A century later, a kitchen up there may be a small room redone piece by piece.
We plan around what a hundred-year-old house gives us: walls that are not quite plumb, floors that have settled, wiring from several eras. Cabinets get scribed to the old plaster, and the floor is leveled before anything is set on it.
Inside century-old wallsSeventy-four percent of Plum homes have three or four bedrooms, while three households in ten have children at home. In a house that size the kitchen is the busiest room on the floor, and the hope is room for more than one person to work.
We set the sink, range and refrigerator so two people can cook without crossing paths, give the island seats on the side away from the work, and add a pantry wall where the old kitchen had a broom closet.
Islands and pantriesThirty-eight percent of Plum's homeowners have passed 65, and roughly one in four has lived at the same address since before 1990. Those who plan to stay put want a kitchen that makes staying easier, not harder, with each passing year.
Counter-height wall ovens, a cooktop whose controls sit at the front, drawers in place of the deep base cabinets, and lights tucked under every upper. Each of those changes saves a stoop, a stretch or a squint, every single day.
Kitchen layoutsAbout one Plum household in five rents, and 42 percent of those renters have moved in since the start of 2020. Each change of residents means a fresh borough occupancy permit, so a landlord who redoes a kitchen between tenants wants it finished before that visit.
We line the work up with the lease dates, close every permit before move-in, and hand over a kitchen with nothing an inspector could write up. Rental plumbing is done by a master plumber, as the county requires.
Kitchen cost rangesAbout one Plum home in five was built between 1990 and 2009. A kitchen that age may still work well enough, and the ask is an update, not a teardown: new counters, better lighting, maybe an island where the table used to be.
We leave the sink and drains in place when the layout allows, which keeps the county permit simple, and spend the budget where you will see it: counters, cabinet fronts, a backsplash, and lighting that reaches the work.
Kitchen refresh costsFigures: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020–2024, Plum Borough. History: Tribune-Review reporting on Holiday Park (2025) and Logans Ferry Heights (2022, 2026).
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 Plum
In Plum the borough reviews structural work, Allegheny County's Health Department oversees every pipe, and a lot of houses carry another town's mailing address. Each one changes who signs off on a kitchen.
StructuralChanges need a borough permit
Plum's Community Development office, at 2000 Mike Thomas Way, issues building permits for structural alterations, so removing a wall or widening an opening goes through the borough's code official. Cabinets and counters swapped in place do not. We draw the plans and meet the official on site.
MasterPlumber required in rentals
Allegheny County lets a landlord make plumbing repairs only in the landlord's own home. In a rental unit, the Health Department says a master plumber must make any repairs or changes. On a rental kitchen, that covers the sink, the dishwasher hookup and every drain line we move.
Allegheny County plumbing permits (opens in a new tab)35%Of Plum in a New Kensington ZIP
Only part of Plum carries its own 15239 ZIP. Roughly 35 percent of the borough's land has a New Kensington address, and slivers fall in Verona and Oakmont ZIPs. If the house sits inside Plum, the kitchen permit still comes from Mike Thomas Way.
Building in PlumKitchen Questions
Five things Plum homeowners and landlords want settled first. The general shape of our kitchen jobs is laid out on the kitchen service.
Ask a QuestionMostly on what gets relocated. Keeping the sink and range where they are keeps the work, and the county plumbing paperwork, to a minimum; moving them adds both. We price the whole job in writing once we have seen the kitchen, and the kitchen service page has our usual ranges.
Kitchen cost rangesBecause two offices cover it. The borough reviews structural changes such as a wall coming out, and Allegheny County's Health Department reviews the plumbing, approving the plan before any pipe is touched and inspecting at the end. We submit to both so neither holds up demo day.
How a kitchen job runsOften, yes. County plumbing permits cover new and changed plumbing alike, and the Health Department's paperwork even has a dishwasher transmittal sheet. A dishwasher that goes in where there was none, with a new supply and drain, is plumbing work in the county's eyes. We check before we order the appliance.
Allegheny County plumbing permits (opens in a new tab)An occupancy permit. A Plum house needs a new one at each change of owners or residents, at most every two years, issued after a borough inspection. We finish the kitchen with every permit closed out and the paperwork in your hands, so the inspector sees finished work.
Yes, Renton included, and in every other corner of Plum's 28.6 square miles, from Holiday Park to the river. The century-old company houses up in Logans Ferry Heights need extra care with settled floors and aging wiring, and we price that in from the first walkthrough.
Other Services
Plum houses also need decks set into hillsides, baths rebuilt and lower levels kept dry. Our carpenters handle those too; tap any card for the details.
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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