BOWIE
Home Repair & Contractor Services
If you know your Bowie section, we already know your floor plan. We rebuild after hidden kitchen and laundry leaks, turn rentals in Belair and South Bowie, and lay new floors through the main level.
Bowie Is a Planned Suburb Turning Sixty
Bowie grew from a railroad stop into one of the biggest cities in Prince George's County, mostly through planned sections of similar houses.
Similar houses age the same way. When one house in a Belair section needs a rebuild, the neighbors are usually not far behind.
Our Bowie home repair services cover that water damage and the drywall repair in Bowie, MD that comes with it.
The local concept
Levitt Sections
Levitt sections are the neighborhoods of Belair at Bowie that Levitt and Sons started building in the early 1960s: rows of the same few models on curving streets.
Those houses are past sixty now. Original supply lines, water heaters and windows are reaching the end at about the same time, which shows up as the same kind of water damage street after street.
What people in Bowie hire us for
Kitchen and laundry leaks
In an older Bowie house, a leak behind the kitchen or laundry wall can run a long time before you see it. We open the walls, dry the framing and rebuild with the claim documented.
Insurance Reconstruction →Belair and South Bowie rentals
Single-family houses in Belair and townhouses in South Bowie are rented and re-rented. Repainting, patching, new floors and fixtures and the move-in punch list all come under one written price.
Rental Turnovers →Retail near Bowie Town Center
Stores and offices around Bowie Town Center and along Crain Highway (US 301) change tenants. We build out the space and handle the subcontractors inside one contract.
Commercial Contracting →Same model, new floors
When you know the model, you know the floor plan. We measure once and install plank, carpet or tile through the main level without surprises.
Flooring →Home repair services in Bowie
Our home repair in Bowie comes inside a bigger job: rebuilding after water or storm damage, turning a rental between tenants, replacing the floors, or remodeling a kitchen or bath. We don't take a single small repair on its own. A door that sticks, a hole in the drywall or a loose fixture gets fixed as part of that larger scope, on the same written price.
Which repairs a Bowie house needs depends on when its section was built. The Levitt houses in Belair, Somerset and Whitehall sit on slabs or crawlspaces, so a failed water heater or washer hose spreads across the main floor and into the subfloor and the bottom of the walls. Northview, Fairwood and Woodmore, built from the 1980s on, have full basements, and there the repair is usually the finished lower level after a sump pump fails in a hard rain.
For landlords in Belair and South Bowie, the repairs are the move-out list: patched and painted walls, worn floors replaced, fixtures and hardware swapped, and the punch list closed before the next tenant moves in.
Repairs that replace drywall, wiring or plumbing are permitted through Prince George's County DPIE. Many Bowie sections also have a homeowners association with rules for the outside of the house, so we check those before anything changes outside.
Service Pages
Specific Services in Bowie
Bowie Neighborhoods We Serve
Old Town Bowie and Bowie State, Belair and Kenilworth, Pointer Ridge and Fairwood, and South Bowie down to Mitchellville.
North Bowie
- Woodmore
- Fairwood
- Northview
- Pointer Ridge
South Bowie
- South Bowie
- Chapel Forge
- Belair
- Whitehall
Old Town
- Old Town Bowie
- Kenilworth
- Bowie State
- Mitchellville
Nearby
- Crofton
- Upper Marlboro
- Glenn Dale
- Lanham
Up US 301 to Bowie
Bowie is near the far edge of our map from the shop, roughly 29 miles on a straight line, but only about 15 from the Capitol, which is what our 30-mile rule is measured from.
The drive runs east on MD 228 to US 301, north on US 301 past Upper Marlboro, and onto MD 197 for Old Town Bowie, Bowie State University and Prince George's Stadium.
Dashed ring: 30 miles from the Capitol.
Bowie Questions
Is Bowie inside your service area?+
Yes. Our line is 30 miles from the Capitol, and Bowie is about 15.
Who issues permits in the City of Bowie?+
Building permits for Bowie go through Prince George's County DPIE. Check your homeowners association too, since many Bowie sections have their own exterior rules.
Do you work on the original Levitt houses in Belair?+
Yes. We rebuild and refresh them regularly, from a single room after a leak to a whole house between tenants.
Does a 1960s Bowie kitchen leak usually mean opening walls?+
Usually some, yes. Water runs inside the wall before it shows, so we open enough to see where it went and dry it properly.
Are there addition contractors who work in Bowie and Upper Marlboro?+
Yes, we build home additions in both, with permits through Prince George's County DPIE. Many Bowie sections have homeowners association rules for the outside of the house, so we check those before any drawings. Bowie and Upper Marlboro are each about 15 miles from the Capitol, well inside our 30-mile area.
Who rebuilds storm damaged homes in Bowie?+
We do, once the tree is off and the roof is tarped. We repair the roof, take out wet ceilings and insulation, check the framing and rebuild the rooms, photographing and measuring for your adjuster. We don't take emergency calls. We answer 7 AM to 7 PM every day.
ZIP Codes We Serve in Bowie
Start Your Bowie Estimate
Tell us your section and model if you know it. It helps us scope the job before we arrive.
Towns Near Bowie
- Lanham, MD 4.4 mi southwest
- Largo, MD 9.1 mi south
- Hyattsville, MD 9.5 mi southwest
- Deanwood, DC 10.8 mi southwest
- Capitol Heights, MD 11.1 mi southwest
- District Heights, MD 11.5 mi southwest
Straight-line miles from Bowie. Farther than District Heights? See the Maryland page or the full service area.