Baka mixes stone houses built before 1948 with 1960s blocks and new construction, sometimes on the same street. We renovate across all three, in English, with owners who live here and owners who are still planning their move.
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Pre-1948 stone houses and 1960s blocks, each taken back to what is sound and rebuilt from there.
Often the moment a closed back kitchen finally opens toward the garden or the living space.
Rebuilt with the damp proofing that ground floor Baka flats genuinely need.
New service routes found through stone without cutting into anything structural.
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The older stone houses off Derech Beit Lechem and around the Train Track Park are the ones people fall in love with: arched windows, high ceilings, decorative floor tiles and, often, a garden or a terrace. They were built with lime based mortar and solid stone, which behaves differently from concrete and needs to be treated on its own terms.
Alongside them sit the 1950s and 1960s apartment blocks, which offer a very different job: sound structure, tired services, and layouts that were designed for a way of living that has moved on. These respond well to opening up a kitchen, reworking a bathroom and bringing the electrics up to current load.
Whichever of the two you own, Baka renovations tend to involve close neighbours and narrow access. We agree working hours in advance, keep the stairwell clean daily, and give the building a schedule so everyone knows what is happening and when.
Plenty of our Baka clients bought before they moved, and are running the renovation from another country while the aliyah paperwork catches up. That is a pattern we know well. One English speaking contact handles the whole project, and the schedule is built so the flat is ready for the date you actually land.
We report on a fixed rhythm rather than when asked, with photos and video at each stage, and we flag anything that would change the price in writing before we act on it. If you arrive mid project, the site meeting slots are already in the schedule waiting for you.
Yes. It takes more planning than a modern block, because routes have to be found that do not cut into structural stone, and that usually means dropping services through cupboards, along new bulkheads or under a raised floor. We map the routes at design stage so there are no surprises once walls are open.
We agree working hours with the building before we start, usually finishing by mid afternoon, and we sweep the shared stairwell at the end of every day. You get the schedule to circulate, and our site manager handles any direct questions from neighbours so you are not in the middle of it.
Anything that changes the external envelope or adds floor area needs a permit, and in Baka the timeline for that is worth planning around. Internal changes that do not touch structure generally do not. We tell you which category your plan falls into at the first visit, before you commit to anything.
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