As a general contractor in Hudson, ME, we add onto, repair and remodel houses on septic and holding-tank lots, from the village at Routes 43 and 221 to the camps along Pushaw Lake. We read the lot as closely as the house.
In short
This page is about hiring a general contractor for a house in Hudson, Maine: one company to plan and run an addition, a kitchen, a bathroom or a structural repair from first look to final walkthrough.
Hudson has no public sewer, so each house sits on a septic system or a holding tank, and the town's permit form asks how many bedrooms you are adding. Lots on Pushaw Lake, Little Pushaw Pond and the town's streams add shoreland limits, which we sort out before the price.
The figure to keep: averaged across many jobs, a Hudson kitchen runs $13,500 to $72,000+ by scope, and bathrooms start at $12,000 apiece.
Every Hudson project starts at the septic tank because the town has no public sewer. The permit application asks how many bedrooms you are adding and whether a septic system is required or modified.
Bedroom additions checked against the septic design before anything is drawn
Road setbacks measured from the center of the town road, as the ordinance reads
Shoreland limits on Pushaw Lake, Little Pushaw Pond and named brooks read first
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Hudson, ME
14.8 miles from Bangor
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See every town we serveWhat Hudson's houses and camps need most is room, sound framing and kitchens that work all year. From 2002 to 2011 the town permitted 60 additions.
A bedroom addition in Hudson is a septic question before it is a carpentry question. Maine's HHE-200 design form sets the bedroom count a system can carry, and the ordinance bars a permit for any project on septic without suitable soils.
Footings go below frost, deeper inland than on the coast, and we match the old roof pitch, trim and siding.
Hudson's 2012 town plan notes many homes over 100 years old that have only ever been repaired. Power first reached two Hudson homes in 1939, so every wire in the oldest farmhouses was added later.
We open the floor rather than tile over it, sister new joists beside the old and jack a sag up slowly, over days.
Cottages went up on Pushaw Lake and Little Pushaw Pond from the 1970s on, and the town plan counts them as most of Hudson's possible year-round conversions.
In a camp kitchen, we check the water lines in outside walls first. Keep the plumbing wall put and the job stays in the cosmetic or mid-range tier.
Our general contracting in Hudson also covers:
Hudson's Code Enforcement Officer is also its plumbing inspector and health officer, so one office reviews the building, plumbing and septic. We apply after you sign, and approval rests with that office.
Sills, joists, venting and foundation, then the septic tank and the road's center line.
Your designer or our design partner draws it, and we price those drawings in writing.
Weekly updates, then a room-by-room walk on the last day.
You choose a general contractor in Hudson, ME by asking which building code they frame to. The town is under 4,000 people, so Maine's code rules leave adoption to Hudson, and its 2012 plan said no building code applied then.
Ask about the water next. Maine's shoreland rules reach 250 feet back from Pushaw Lake and 75 feet from a stream, and they limit expanding a building already too close.
Last, get it in writing, because a wall opened on a handshake is where prices double. Under 10 MRSA §1487, a home job over $3,000 needs a contract signed by both sides, and the first payment is capped at a third of the price.
Owners who plan to stay add on in Hudson: more than nine in ten occupied homes are owner-occupied. The ordinance also allows an in-law apartment in the house for the owner's relatives.
Building limits in Hudson are tightest in the Shoreland Zone, along Pushaw Lake, Little Pushaw Pond and streams such as Pushaw Stream, Dead Stream and Bear Brook. The Natural Resource Protection areas, set aside for aquifers and wetlands, come next.
A Hudson addition should start once the permit is issued and the ground has thawed for footings. A kitchen or floor repair inside keeps going all winter.
A Hudson kitchen costs $13,500 to $72,000+ and a bath starts at $12,000 per room, averaged across many remodels, not quoted.
| Kitchen scope | What it usually means | Average range |
|---|---|---|
| Cosmetic refresh | Paint, counters and fixtures in a camp or 1980s kitchen | $13,500 to $21,000 |
| Mid-range update | New cabinets and counters on the same plumbing wall | $21,000 to $38,500 |
| Full gut | A new layout with new wiring and plumbing | $43,000 to $72,000+ |
Averaged over many kitchens and never a quote; old wiring or rot behind a wall can shift it.
A Hudson bathroom remodel costs $12,000 at the floor, and a small bath with higher-end updates goes up to $20,000. Tile labor swings it most, about $7 to $14 per square foot installed for large-format against $10 to $35 for small mosaic, with rot or a moved drain next.
There is no price for a Hudson addition because its footing, roof tie-in, heat and the septic's bedroom capacity swing the cost too far to average. We price it from drawings, after checking the road setback and any shoreland limit.
The layout fork moves a Hudson kitchen most: keep the plumbing and walls, or move them. Cabinets and counters follow, then whatever an old camp wall hides.
You start a Hudson project by sending a free estimate request with the house's rough age and whether it runs on septic or a holding tank. Then we come look at the house.
