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ADU / accessory dwelling in Crafton Heights

Crafton Heights is West End's 1920-1960 brick singles + american foursquare + mid-century brick ranch submarket. Crafton Heights is the West End plateau neighborhood adjoining the Crafton borough on the south.

Crafton Heights cost range
$145K$405K
typical mid-complexity
Permit authority
Pittsburgh Bureau of Building Inspection (BBI)
8-14 weeks (BBI Type I-II)
Typical home size
1,400-2,600 sqft
Borough · ZIP
West End
15205
EPA RRP lead-paint disclosure on pre-1978 stockAllegheny County Health Department lead and asbestos rulesPA UCC energy code retrofit triggersPittsburgh Tree Code on protected canopy

What a adu / accessory dwelling project looks like here

Crafton Heights is the West End plateau neighborhood adjoining the Crafton borough on the south.

Most stock dates to 1920-1960 brick singles and Foursquares on the upper plateau.

Engineered footings on most stock simplify scope compared to older West End hillside neighborhoods.

Pittsburgh ADUs — detached, attached, and conversion paths — scoped against Pittsburgh PLI + PA HICPA + 2018 IBC setback + height + parking variances. In Crafton Heights specifically, 1920-1960 brick singles + american foursquare + mid-century brick ranch stock means adu / accessory dwelling scope is shaped by the neighborhood's dominant construction typology. Baily's Pittsburgh scoping flow factors epa rrp lead-paint disclosure on pre-1978 stock and allegheny county health department lead and asbestos rules into the estimate before a contractor is involved.

Start your Crafton Heights scope — Baily asks the right questions.

Pre-seeded for adu / accessory dwelling in Crafton Heights. Mention your 1,400-2,600 sqft, your timeline, and any known constraints — Baily factors the pittsburgh bureau of building inspection (bbi) review queue into the scope.

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Who is Baily?

Baily is named after Francis Baily — an English stockbroker who retired at 51, became an astronomer, and in 1836 described something on the edge of a solar eclipse that nobody had properly articulated before: a string of bright beads of sunlight breaking through the valleys along the moon’s rim.

He wasn’t the first to see them. Edmond Halley saw them in 1715 and barely noticed. Baily’s contribution was clarity — describing exactly what was happening, in plain language, so vividly that the whole field of astronomy paid attention. The phenomenon is still called Baily’s beads.

That’s what we wanted our AI to do. Every inbound call and text has signal in it — a homeowner’s real question, a timeline, a budget, a hesitation that means “yes but.” Baily listens to every one, 24/7, and finds the beads of light.

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