Confident Home Remodelers

CONFIDENT HOME REMODELERS

Serving Northern New Jersey and the Lehigh Valley

Home remodeling, door and window installation. We have emerged as the leading installer in Northern New Jersey for cellar doors, also known as Bilco doors, bulkhead doors, Gordon doors, and basement doors. Our dedicated website for these services is www.glazedcellardoors.com 


Eric Martindale

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We will install or replace cellar doors in Warren, Sussex, Morris, Essex, Passaic, Bergen, Union, Somerset, Hunterdon, Middlesex, and Mercer Counties in New Jersey, and Northhampton, Monroe, Lehigh and Bucks Counties in Pennsylvania. Any opening, no matter how deteriorated or non-standard, can be customized for a new cellar door. We are masters at reframing openings with new 4" high cinderblocks and/or 2x6 pressure-treated boards, and then capping them. This is a far better solution than the metal "extension plates" and "special orders" offered by other installers.


We have for many years done kitchens, bathrooms, decks, and attic and basement rehab's. These continue as our services, even as we focus more and more on cellar doors. Take note that in the colder months, we prefer inside work. 


CONFIDENT HOME REMODELERS is licensed and insured, and in business since 2008. We are a small family-owned business. We are located in Warren County, NJ, and we maintain a presence in Bergen County.


We are strictly a residential contractor, no “commercial work”. Your job is not “fill” while I’m not working on large commercial projects.

 

Our vehicle bought in 2017 is smaller, but it can transport more workers. That’s a big advantage. Large orders of supplies are still delivered by lumberyards, and large amounts of debris are still taken away via dumpsters.


Our skills and integrity have earned us a reputation as one of the area’s pre-eminent home remodeling companies. Our business plan is to provide absolute high-quality workmanship at very reasonable pricing. We can do this by having very little overhead, by having little advertising and marketing costs, and by not outsourcing work. Customers want the owner on the jobsite. I’ll be there. I knit-pick on details, and sometimes my own workers complain, but it has to be done right.

We appear to be the only local contractor that will buy a standard 80” high steel or fiberglass door in stock at suppliers, and then cut and refabricate it to create a shorter door. We can replace that old shorty door leading out of your basement or garage. Yes, there’s a refab fee, but it’s still more economical than a “special order” door that takes 3 or 4 months at the factory.

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PROBLEM CELLAR DOOR IN RIDGEFIELD PARK
22 May, 2023
We got another incoming call from a customer hoping desperately to resolve basement flooding. She first reached out to her brother, who referred my company. He had found us online, and he also contracted with us for a cellar door replacement.

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We install name brands like Andersen, Pella, and Marvin, lesser-known high quality brands like Okna or Simonton, budget brands, and everything in between, depending on the customer’s needs and desires. We have identified a budget vinyl window that’s far better than all the other budget brands out there, and it’s made local.

 

The contractor who specializes in sheetrock and painting does so because more difficult projects are beyond their pay grade. They should not install a door or window. Also be wary of the “handyman”. By definition that’s someone who is not a contractor, but is doing work without the proper licenses or insurance. 

 

We remain quite comfortable doing Kitchens, Bathrooms, Attics, and Basements, and I prefer to do them in the winter, when there are fewer “good weather days” to install doors and windows. My loyal customers will wait for the winter months for us to do these jobs, also knowing that it costs more to do these jobs in the Spring, due to supply and demand. If you want to start a bathroom in April, you will find someone to do it (not me) and you’ll pay 50% more because everyone seems to want to do bathrooms in April. “Off-season” work is most economical for customers on a tight budget.

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