Second story additions in Pleasant Grove

They call Pleasant Grove the City of Trees, and the name gives away why nobody wants to leave: the established neighborhoods here have the kind of mature landscaping, generous lots, and settled streets that new subdivisions spend thirty years trying to grow into. Families in Pleasant Grove tend to stay — which is exactly why so many of its one-story homes eventually run out of bedrooms.

When that happens, the choice is rarely about wanting a different neighborhood; it is about needing a different house. And because Pleasant Grove sits in the middle of the county — minutes from the canyon one direction and the Silicon Slopes job corridor the other — a home here is worth holding onto. A second story addition splits that difference cleanly. The footprint, the yard, and the trees stay exactly as they are, while the home above them doubles. For the classic Pleasant Grove rambler between the freeway and the foothills, building up typically adds bedrooms and a second bathroom exactly where the family already lives, at a fraction of the disruption of selling, buying, and moving twice.

The build itself is engineered for this specific place. Pleasant Grove sits in the Wasatch Fault seismic zone, so the existing structure is assessed and the new second story is designed with the shear resistance and continuous load path the code demands, under a roof rated for local snow loads. Design Your Price handles the drawings, the structural engineering, and the City of Pleasant Grove permit in-house, then builds with the weatherproof-above-the-roof sequence: the new level is framed and dried-in on top of your existing roof first, so the home below stays sealed, warm, and occupied straight through construction.

ZIP codes served: 84062