UDA Services builds decks, patios, home additions, custom garages, concrete, and hardscaping, along with full residential and commercial construction. Every job comes with a free quote, permits handled in-house, and a workmanship warranty on the finished work.
Your Trusted Construction Company in Lykens
Locally owned and working out of Lykens, we take on both residential and commercial projects across northern Dauphin County. Every job begins with a free quote, a firm scope, and a schedule you can plan around, and we file the permits ourselves so the paperwork never becomes your problem. Homeowners and business owners hire us because the finished work lasts and nothing about the process catches them off guard.
If You Can Dream it We Can Build It
One General Contractor for the Whole Build
Most of our work starts in the backyard. We design and build decks in composite and pressure-treated wood, single and multi-level layouts, covered porches, outdoor kitchens, and fire pit areas. Paver patios, retaining walls, walkways, and stone features come from the same crews, so the hardscaping and the structure match instead of competing.
When a house stops fitting the people in it, we add the room rather than move you out. Additions run from framing through siding and interior finishes, sized around how the family actually uses the space. Custom garages get built to your roof pitch, siding, and trim, whether the plan is parking, storage, or a working shop.
Concrete sits under almost everything we build, so we pour and finish it ourselves. That covers footers, foundations, slabs, sidewalks, steps, and patio pads. Interior and exterior painting closes out a job, whether that means finishing a new addition or bringing a tired exterior back to something you are glad to pull up to.
Bigger projects follow the same discipline. Residential construction covers whole-home builds and gut renovations, and our commercial side handles business builds where the schedule and the budget both have to hold. Ground-up work runs from site prep and excavation to the final walkthrough, with one general contractor answering for all of it.
Building the Future, Restoring the Past
That covers both sides of the business, new space built from scratch and older property, plenty of it dating to the coal era around here, brought back to sound condition.
- Outdoor living spaces meant to be used, from decks and paver patios to outdoor kitchens, fire pits, and covered pavilions.
- Custom garages matched to the house they sit beside, built to your existing roof pitch, siding, and exterior trim details.
- Home additions planned around daily life, adding real square footage without leaving the original house looking patched together afterward.
- Restoration work that saves what is worth saving, with repairs, rebuilds, and selective replacement handled by the same crews.
Why Homeowners Keep Coming Back to UDA Services
- One contractor from the first quote to the last walkthrough, with no separate trades for you to chase down.
- We pull the permits and carry the code and inspection requirements, so none of that paperwork lands on you.
- Finished projects carry a workmanship warranty on construction quality and materials, so anything that surfaces later is ours to fix.
- Most residential projects wrap inside two to six weeks, on a schedule agreed at the consultation rather than guessed at.
How Your Project Runs
The same four steps apply whether the job is a single deck or a ground-up build.
- Free quote — We answer within one business day, walk the property with you, work through materials and options, then price the job in writing.
- Planning and permits — Drawings, selections, and budget get locked before a shovel moves. We file the permit applications and carry the code and inspection requirements.
- The build — Our crews handle the work against the agreed schedule, and you hear from us whenever the job reaches a new stage.
- Walkthrough and warranty — We close with a walkthrough, correct whatever ends up on the list, then back the finished work with the workmanship warranty.
HISTORY
- UDA Services began with one truck and a handful of tools. Jake Esh Jr. has since built it into a multi-crew company that runs several projects at once, which means your job gets a crew of its own instead of waiting in a long queue.
QUALITY
- Quality shows in the parts nobody photographs. Base prep, framing, flashing, and fasteners get done properly, using materials chosen to survive hard winters and freeze-thaw cycles, and every project carries a workmanship warranty.
MISSION
- Our mission is a build that holds no surprises in it. Clear pricing, honest timelines, steady communication, and finished work that functions as well as it looks, whether the job is a single deck or a ground-up build on a bare lot.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit.
Jake Esh Jr.
Let's Talk About Your Project
Tell us what you have in mind and we will come back with a free quote, usually inside one business day. Flexible payment options are available, and financing can be talked through at the estimate.