Older home remodeling in La Habra Heights, Los Angeles County
Older Home Remodeling in La Habra Heights
Remodeling older La Habra Heights homes while keeping the original casing, baseboard and built-ins as wiring and pipe are replaced behind them.
Original wood trim is what we protect hardest in an older La Habra Heights house: door and window casing, baseboard, picture rail and the built-ins they frame. Under inland sun and dry air, old trim shrinks at its joints and its paint grows brittle, so it has to come off with care. Each piece is numbered, photographed in place and stored flat until the rooms are ready for it again.
Taking trim off without splitting it
A sharp knife scores the paint line along the wall first, so pulling a casing does not tear plaster with it. Nails are drawn out through the back of each board, which leaves the face intact. Pieces too dry to flex are eased away a little at a time with thin bars and shims. Split ends are glued and clamped, missing lengths are milled to the same profile from matching wood, and paint that has filled in the detail can be stripped so the edges read crisp again.
What happens behind it
With the trim off, the cavities around door and window openings are where new wiring and plumbing tend to run, so that work is done while those spaces are bare. Old cloth-insulated wiring is pulled, rusted pipe gives way to new supply lines, and the framing at each opening is checked for rot or a missing header. La Habra Heights is its own city, and the building department serving it reviews the permit. After inspection, plaster is repaired, the original trim goes back on its marked spots, and paint follows.
What we can do for a house in La Habra Heights
Whole-house work leads, and every other service is available for the same house.
Planning work on a house in La Habra Heights?
Tell us about it. We will walk through the house and send a written scope.