Home improvement contractors serving Anne Arundel County, MD — kitchens, baths, decks & whole-house remodeling. MHIC #113057, 5.0★ rated. Call 443-856-5379.
PRG Home Improvement is headquartered in Gambrills and serves homeowners across Anne Arundel County with kitchen remodeling, bathroom renovations, deck construction, custom carpentry, concrete and hardscaping, whole-house renovations, and painting. As a local contractor, we understand the county's housing stock — from historic Annapolis colonials to newer developments in Odenton and Crofton — and handle all Anne Arundel County permits and inspections (Anne Arundel County permits).
Building outdoor living space is our most requested project in the county: see our deck and porch building services for materials, pricing, and the permit process for Anne Arundel County decks and screened porches.
Call 443-856-5379 for a free in-home estimate anywhere in Anne Arundel County.
Residential remodeling permits in the county run through the Anne Arundel County Office of Inspections and Permits. Simple permits — a deck, a standard bathroom renovation — typically approve in 1-2 weeks. Projects that need multiple reviews, such as structural changes or work on lots in designated environmental review zones, take 4-6 weeks. Cosmetic updates are exempt: painting, flooring, tile on existing surfaces, cabinet swaps, and countertop replacement on existing cabinets need no permit. The line is crossed the moment you relocate plumbing, add electrical circuits, or touch anything structural — all of that requires a permit, with inspections at footings, framing, and final for structural work.
One wrinkle county pages rarely mention: the City of Annapolis runs its own permitting department, separate from the county. If your home sits inside Annapolis city limits, your permit application goes through the City of Annapolis, not the county office — same general rules about what needs a permit, different reviewers and timelines. Homes in suburban Annapolis-area neighborhoods outside the city line, like the rest of the county, file with the county office. Waterfront lots near the Chesapeake or South River can also fall in the Critical Area, which adds impervious-surface limits and environmental review to hardscaping and deck projects.
We handle all of it. PRG prepares the complete permit package — site plan, footing details, framing specs — submits the application, and schedules every inspection to align with the build so the project never idles waiting on the county. Typical fees are modest: $150-$500 for a residential deck building permit, plus $50-$150 for an electrical sub-permit when lighting or circuits are added. Our Anne Arundel County permit guide breaks down the full process project by project.
The county splits into clear construction eras, and each one remodels differently. The oldest stock is post-war Glen Burnie: 1940s-1960s row houses and ranchers where a kitchen or bathroom demo can uncover knob-and-tube wiring, galvanized plumbing, or asbestos that needs proper remediation before the pretty work starts. The 1960s-1990s planned-community wave built Crofton's colonials and split-foyers, Severna Park's colonials and ranchers in Benfield and Shipley's Choice, and Pasadena's ranchers and split-levels in Lake Shore and Green Haven — solid framing, closed-off kitchens, and original bathrooms that are the county's most common renovation candidates.
The 1980s-90s added the Annapolis-area colonials of Hillsmere Shores, Bestgate, and Admiral Heights, where we spend most of our time replacing original builder kitchens and baths. Then came the builder-grade boom: NVHomes and Ryan Homes communities like Piney Orchard and Seven Oaks in Odenton, Two Rivers with its Estuary and Cascades sections, and the 2000s-2020s Hanover communities — Shipley Homestead, Arundel Preserve, Parkside Reserve, Copperleaf. These homes are structurally new but ship with laminate countertops, stock cabinetry, no deck, and no custom storage, so owners typically upgrade within the first one to three years.
At the rural edges — Gambrills, Crownsville, Davidsonville — larger lots bring well and septic systems that change how we plan drain locations and water pressure in kitchen and bath remodels, and Davidsonville estate properties can carry agricultural preservation easements that affect addition permitting. Knowing which era your street was built in is half of scoping the project correctly.
These are the working ranges we quote across the county. A bathroom remodel runs $15,000-$30,000 for a standard renovation and $35,000-$60,000+ for a full gut. A kitchen remodel runs $15,000-$30,000 for a cosmetic update and $65,000-$100,000+ for a full renovation. A new deck runs $15,000-$25,000 in pressure-treated lumber and $40,000-$80,000+ in composite. Concrete and hardscaping runs $8-$15 per square foot for a concrete patio and $15-$30 per square foot for pavers.
Where a specific house lands inside those ranges depends on era: a Glen Burnie rancher may need plumbing and electrical brought up to code before finishes, while an Odenton builder-grade home usually just needs the upgrade itself. For a line-item number, run our online estimator or call 443-856-5379 for a free in-home estimate.
A large share of Anne Arundel County lives under an architectural review board, and exterior projects — decks, porches, fencing, sometimes even window replacements — need community approval on top of the county permit. Crofton's architectural review process is the best known, with design guidelines we submit to regularly. Piney Orchard and Seven Oaks in Odenton, Shipley's Choice and The Reserve at Severna Park, Admiral Heights in Annapolis, and Hanover communities like Shipley Homestead and Parkside Reserve all run their own review processes as well.
The mistake homeowners make is treating the two approvals as sequential. HOA review typically takes 2-4 weeks; the county permit takes 1-2. We prepare the HOA submittal and the county permit package together and run both reviews in parallel, which routinely saves a month on exterior projects. Interior renovations skip the HOA entirely but still need the county permit whenever plumbing, electrical, or structure is involved.
PRG Home Improvement is headquartered in Gambrills, near the geographic center of the county — Millersville communities like The Willows are about 5 minutes from our shop, and even the far corners like Hanover, Glen Burnie, and the Watershed community in Laurel sit roughly 15-20 minutes out under normal traffic. That radius shows up in practice as faster estimates, quicker punch-list visits, and crews that are not burning your budget on drive time.
It also shows up in the paperwork. We have pulled permits through the county's Office of Inspections and Permits since 2016, we know what its reviewers look for on deck and structural submittals, and we know which communities require architectural review before the county will even matter. Owner Anton Sergeev is on every project from estimate to final walkthrough, and the company is MHIC licensed (#113057) and insured. Whether the project is a whole-house renovation in a 1990s Gambrills colonial or custom built-ins in a new Hanover townhome, the crew showing up already knows the housing stock on your street.
These are the projects Anne Arundel homeowners ask us for most, with local pricing and permit details for each city: