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Your Trusted Exterior Contractor in Urbandale, Iowa

Urbandale is packed with well-maintained homes that still need work when you look a little closer. The Walnut Creek area, tucked along the greenway on the west side of town, is full of established homes from the 1980s and 1990s surrounded by mature trees. Those trees are beautiful, but they drop branches on roofs, clog gutters with leaves every fall, and create shade that traps moisture against siding. We replace roofing on Walnut Creek homes that has been battered by falling limbs and 30 years of Iowa storms. We install seamless gutters with gutter guards that keep the debris out. And we swap aging siding for fiber cement or engineered wood that resists the moisture problems shade-heavy lots create.

Along the Merle Hay corridor and through the neighborhoods between Hickman Road and Douglas Avenue, the housing stock shifts to 1970s ranch homes. These are solid, well-built houses, but many still have their original roofing, original aluminum or vinyl siding, and original concrete driveways that are cracked and heaving after 50 years of Central Iowa freeze-thaw cycles. We tear out old concrete and pour new driveways, sidewalks, and patios across Urbandale every season. We also replace those aging roofs with architectural shingles rated for Iowa wind and hail, because Urbandale sits right in the path of storms rolling east across the metro.

Inside these 1970s and 1980s Urbandale ranch homes, the kitchens are usually the first thing homeowners want to change. Closed-off galley layouts, dark wood cabinets, and laminate countertops do not fit how people cook and entertain today. Our kitchen remodeling projects open up those layouts and bring in modern finishes that make the whole main floor feel bigger. Bathroom remodeling is close behind — outdated tile, worn fixtures, and cramped vanities that have not been touched in 40 years. We gut them down to the studs and rebuild bathrooms that actually work for your family.

Interior painting is another popular project in Urbandale. Homeowners refreshing dated color schemes — wallpaper borders, sponge-paint accent walls, and beige everything — call us to repaint entire interiors with clean, modern palettes. Many Urbandale homes also have unfinished or partially finished basements. We handle full basement finishing, turning those empty lower levels into family rooms, playrooms, and home offices with proper framing, insulation, drywall, and paint.

The newer developments along 86th Street bring a different set of needs, mostly interior upgrades on homes that were built fast with builder-grade everything. Black Ridge is based just over in Ankeny, so we are on-site in Urbandale in about 15 minutes. We know these neighborhoods, we know the common issues, and we deliver the same quality work that has earned us a 4.9-star rating across Central Iowa.

• ✓ Family-owned, based just minutes away in Ankeny
• ✓ Fully licensed and insured in Iowa
• ✓ Free, no-pressure estimates
• ✓ 24/7 emergency storm damage response