Home Remodeling in West Grove, PA
Kitchen, bath and accessibility work for the borough, the townships and the active-adult communities of West Grove.
West Grove is a small borough that, with Avondale less than three miles away, sits inside London Grove Township in the Avon Grove School District, which covers 67 square miles and five townships. The West Grove address reaches well past the borough into Penn Township, and Penn Township is where the area's distinctive housing is: a cluster of 55-and-over communities around Jennersville. The Villages at Penn Ridge is about 184 detached houses built by Canon Custom Homes between 2000 and 2004; Jennersville Farm is a gated community of 100 low-maintenance homes started in 2014; Ovations at Elk View is a third, and Big Elk, by Ryan Homes, was the newest to start building. London Grove Township, organized in 1723, has grown to nearly 8,800 people around them.
So a West Grove project is often a single-level active-adult house whose owner wants it to work for the next twenty years, or a borough house from the late 1800s, or a township house on a few acres. Dawson's serves all three, about forty minutes from Middletown up Route 896.
Two townships and a borough, each with its own permits
Penn Township's building and zoning office on Lewis Road issues permits for new residential buildings, renovations, repairs and additions to single-family and two-family houses; applications go through the office to the township's inspector for review, and the office calls when the permit is ready. London Grove Township and West Grove Borough each have their own office and process under the same state construction code. Which one a house files with depends on the municipal line, not the mailing address, and that is the first thing settled on a West Grove estimate.
Active-adult communities
Houses in the Villages at Penn Ridge, Jennersville Farm and Ovations at Elk View are single-level or first-floor-primary plans from the 2000s and 2010s, and the projects are about staying put: a curbless tiled shower with a bench in place of a tub, wider doorways, a kitchen with drawers instead of low cabinets and better lighting, a laundry moved to the main floor if it is not there already. These communities have homeowners associations with architectural rules, and gated ones like Jennersville Farm have access procedures for contractors, so the work is scheduled with the association as well as the township.
The borough and the farm roads
West Grove's own houses are late-19th-century frame and brick on small lots, with rear kitchens and bathrooms added later, and they remodel the way the older houses in Kennett Square and Oxford do. Out on the township roads the houses are farmhouses and 1970s-to-1990s singles on larger lots where an addition is usually possible, and where siding and window replacement on a house of that age is straightforward work.
Dawson's serves West Grove for kitchens, bathrooms, basements, additions, windows, siding, decks and carpentry.
Nearby, Dawson's also serves Avondale, Toughkenamon, New London and Landenberg.
West Grove is part of the Chester County, PA service area.
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