Lakewood, Los Angeles County
Lakewood Remodeling and Rear Additions
Lakewood remodeling: rear additions, garage conversions, kitchen and bath updates, window replacement and stucco repair, filed for city review.
Lakewood handles plan check at the city level. In a single-story tract house, the framing and plumbing tend to follow familiar patterns, which makes planning easier. We plan bigger kitchens, second baths and family rooms added at the back, design them to fit the original house and take them through plan check with the city.
Growing a tract house
A family room or primary suite across the back of the house is a natural addition to a tract house. Because the original roof is usually a simple gable or hip, the new roof can tie in cleanly when the valleys and crickets are drawn out first. The foundation for the addition is poured to current standards, and the existing slab edge is checked where the two meet. We also look at the electrical panel and the water heater location early, since an addition often means moving or upgrading one of them.
Windows and stucco
Where a Lakewood house still has aluminum windows from an earlier update, set into stucco that has cracked at the corners of each opening, replacing them with vinyl units and repairing the stucco around them pays off. Openings with no sign of water damage can take a retrofit window, and the others are replaced down to the framing so a sill pan can go in. A fresh color coat at the end makes the repairs disappear and seals the hairline cracks across the walls.
What we take on in Lakewood
The shell of the house first, then everything else.
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