Owners in West Jordan can hire Taylorsville Basement Finishing, based about 7 road miles away in Taylorsville, for a basement bedroom, bathroom, escape window or apartment.
West Jordan is the largest of the places we serve, with about 116,700 residents. The housing is newer than Taylorsville’s: about 19 percent of homes predate 1980, the median year built is 1995 and about 80 percent are one-unit houses. This page is for owners whose house has a basement to finish.
White subway tile around the tub and beadboard on the lower wall
Air and light
A vent fan and a small high window
Floor
Vinyl plank
Cost
$12,500
In this example, a family in a 1970s house in West Jordan has young children who sleep and play in the lower level. They want a bathroom there with a tub, so bath time does not mean carrying everyone upstairs.
Escape opening, 7-foot ceilings over living space and alarms are the three tests for a basement bedroom, and the basement bedroom page takes them in turn.
Basement bathroom
A half or full bath depends on where the drain sits and how much ceiling there is over the fixtures. The basement bathroom page covers those questions.
Egress window installation
Code numbers set the size of an egress window and well, and the egress window installation page works through the sums.
Basement apartment
A unit inside an owner-occupied house falls under Utah’s internal accessory dwelling statute. The basement apartment page sets out what the state allows and what a city may require.
Homes here
Year-built data for West Jordan: about 36 percent from 1950 to 1989, 24 percent from the 1990s and roughly 38 percent from 2000 on. Owner-occupied homes carry a median value of $492,500, and about 77 percent of homes are owner-occupied.
For a house of the 1990s or later, the ceiling height and the position of ducts and beams matter as much as age does, so a visit comes before a plan. Year built does not say whether a house has a basement, so the first question is whether yours does and how much of it is open.
Permits and rules to check in West Jordan
Residential work in Utah follows the 2021 International Residential Code with Utah amendments, including the egress, ceiling height and alarm rules covered on our service pages. West Jordan’s own permit steps, fees and any accessory dwelling conditions were not researched for this page, so ask the city’s building office what it needs for a basement finish before work starts.
