La Canada Flintridge, Los Angeles County
La Canada Flintridge Remodeling and Additions
La Canada Flintridge remodeling: fire hardening, additions on sloped lots, kitchens and window restoration, with drawings ready for city review.
In La Canada Flintridge, plans face design review as well as plan check, and fire hazard zones cover parts of the city. A traditional or ranch house on a sloping lot there needs an engineer for the grade before anything is added. We plan additions, remodels and fire-hardening upgrades with drawings prepared for the city's reviewers, and larger projects can run in phases.
Adding on to a hillside house
Additions on sloped lots rest on stepped footings or caissons, often with retaining walls and drainage to keep water off the hill. Before design, we look at the soil report if one exists, the slope and how the addition will meet the existing structure. The roof tie-in and the wall laps are drawn in detail, since those are where additions tend to leak. The city reviews design as well as structure, so the drawings show how the addition matches the house's style and materials.
Lowering fire risk
In very high fire hazard areas, embers are the main threat to a house. Ember-proof vents, closed eaves, guarded gutters, tempered panes and decking built for fire exposure all make ignition less likely. New additions must meet the state's wildfire standards, and those upgrades can be extended to the rest of the house during the same project. Every measure carries its own price in the written quote, so the choices can be made one at a time. Defensible space work can be added on request.
What we take on in La Canada Flintridge
The shell of the house first, then everything else.
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