Second story additions in Hoover

Hoover spreads down the far side of Shades Mountain toward the Cahaba River, and its neighborhoods tell the story of Birmingham's growth in chapters: ranch-era Green Valley and Bluff Park up on the ridge, Riverchase's planned streets from the 80s, Inverness and Greystone filling in the eastern edge. It is also our home turf — Precision Homecrafters is based in Hoover — and the houses we get asked about most are the one-story homes on lots and streets their owners have zero interest in leaving.

Bluff Park makes the case plainly: a ridge neighborhood where the view is the amenity and the mid-century ranch is the house. A second story there — or in Green Valley, or on the quieter streets of Riverchase — adds the bedrooms and the second living level while capturing elevation the first floor never could. And on Hoover's sloped lots, the same logic that holds across Over the Mountain applies: building out means new foundations cut into grade; building up rides the structure that is already proven, which an engineer verifies before anything is drawn.

Hoover runs its own school system — one more reason growing in place beats moving one suburb over — and its Building Inspections Department has adopted the current 2021 codes, so the new level is built warmer, tighter, and stronger than anything the original house was asked to be. Precision Homecrafters manages design, engineering, the city permit, and construction as one process, framing and weatherproofing the new floor above your existing roof before the old roof comes off. The family stays home; the house finally catches up with it.

Neighborhoods we serve in Hoover

ZIP codes served: 35226 · 35244 · 35242