Turn a bare slab and joists into a family room, guest suite, or home office, done right for Southern Maryland's damp soils. We handle egress, code, moisture control, and finishes in-house, and put a free estimate in writing before we frame a single wall.
A basement is usually the cheapest square footage you'll ever add to a home, the walls, floor, and roof are already there. But finishing one in Southern Maryland is not just framing and drywall. Between the region's high water table, clay soils, and older foundations, moisture has to be handled first or the whole project is at risk. Gray & Sons Contracting finishes basements the right way for homeowners across Calvert, St. Mary's, and Charles County, from the prep you can't see to the finishes you live with every day.
Framing, insulation, drywall, drop or drywall ceilings, lighting, and trim that turn raw space into a comfortable, warm room. Whether it's an open rec room, a media area, a playroom, or a home office, we build it to feel like part of the house rather than a cold space below it.
Any basement bedroom or sleeping area needs a proper egress window or door under Maryland code, a safe second way out. We cut the foundation, set the window and well, and tie it into the finished space cleanly. Beyond the code requirement, that egress opening brings in daylight that makes the whole basement feel less like a basement.
This is the step most homeowners never see and the one that makes or breaks a finished basement. We address exterior grading and drainage, sump and vapor management, and interior water control before any framing goes up. Southern Maryland's water table doesn't forgive a basement finished over an unsolved leak, so we solve it first.
A basement bathroom, a wet bar for entertaining, or a full guest suite with a bedroom and bath turns a finished basement into truly usable space. We rough in the plumbing, including up-flush or ejector systems where drains sit above the slab, and finish these rooms with the same tile and fixtures we'd use upstairs.
Below grade, flooring has to tolerate the occasional bit of moisture, so we lean on luxury vinyl plank, tile, and engineered products over the right underlayment. Baseboard, door casing, and finish carpentry get the same attention as the main level, so nothing about the space reads as second-rate.
A finished basement in our area typically runs between $25,000 and $55,000. Four factors move that number most: the square footage you're finishing, whether you're adding a full bathroom or wet bar (plumbing below grade is the single biggest add), how much moisture control and waterproofing prep the space needs before finishing, and the level of finish you choose for flooring, trim, and built-ins. A basement that's already dry and just needs framing and finishes lands near the low end; one that needs an egress cut, a bathroom, and drainage work sits higher. We price it after we see the actual space, in writing, with no surprises.
If any of these are a problem, it's not a dealbreaker, it's just prep work that comes first. We'll tell you honestly during the estimate what your basement needs before it's finish-ready.
Below grade, product choices matter more than they do upstairs. We install moisture-tolerant luxury vinyl plank and tile from Shaw, Mohawk, and MSI, insulate with rigid foam and mineral wool suited to below-grade walls, and hang moisture-resistant drywall where it makes sense. Egress windows come from manufacturers like Wellcraft, and we finish with Sherwin-Williams and Benjamin Moore paints. Everything goes in to manufacturer spec so the warranties hold.
We finish basements throughout Calvert, St. Mary's, and Charles County across Southern Maryland, including Prince Frederick, Solomons, Lusby, Huntingtown, Dunkirk, Owings, St. Leonard, Leonardtown, California, Lexington Park, Hollywood, Waldorf, and La Plata. See our full service area.
Because we handle every trade in-house, a basement project never stalls waiting on a separate framer, plumber, and finish crew to coordinate. A finished basement is often the first phase of a larger whole-home remodel, and the same crew that finishes it lays the flooring throughout the house. When a basement can't add the space you need, a true bedroom suite or a bigger footprint, we also build home additions. One call, one crew, one standard of work from the foundation up.
Family room, guest suite, or home office, tell us what you're picturing and we'll check the space and get you a free written estimate.