Older home remodeling in North Hollywood, Los Angeles County
Remodeling Older Houses in North Hollywood
Remodeling older North Hollywood houses under an LADBS permit, with the original windows, doors and trim marked on the drawings as parts that stay.
Permit review for an older North Hollywood house sits with LADBS, the building department for the City of Los Angeles. Its plan check staff review the drawings for structural changes such as a removed bearing wall or a new beam, and its inspectors return at each stage of the work. We draw the plans around the parts that stay, so the original windows, doors and trim show on the set as kept.
Inspections in order
Foundation work, if the scope has any, is inspected before concrete is poured. New wiring, supply and drain lines and any duct changes are then inspected as rough work while the walls are open, and the framing inspection follows once those trades are in, with hold-downs and new posts still in view. Insulation is checked next, then the wallboard or lath. Added circuits are usually covered by an electrical permit and checked in the field. Final inspection comes once fixtures, trim and the restored windows are back in place.
Systems behind the plaster
An older house may hide knob-and-tube wiring, galvanized supply pipe and cast iron drains. Each can be replaced during the same open-wall stretch, so the new work is inspected together and the plaster is opened only once. Where a wall comes down for a new layout, the casing and baseboard are pried off whole, numbered and set back on the new walls, with missing lengths milled to match. Studio City, Valley Village and Sun Valley are City of Los Angeles neighborhoods as well, so a job there moves through LADBS by these same steps.
What we can do for a house in North Hollywood
Whole-house work leads, and every other service is available for the same house.
Planning work on a house in North Hollywood?
Tell us about it. We will walk through the house and send a written scope.