Older home remodeling in West Hills, Los Angeles County

Whole-House Remodeling in West Hills

Older houses in West Hills, Canoga Park, Chatsworth and Calabasas get one walk-through, one written scope and a careful list of the original parts.

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A house in West Hills is handled like one in Chatsworth, Canoga Park, Winnetka or Woodland Hills: a walk-through that starts under the floor, paint and plaster samples sent to a lab, and a written scope naming each original window, door and built-in we plan to keep. Calabasas and Hidden Hills are separate cities, and there the process holds while only the office issuing the permit changes.

How the work is ordered

Lab results come back before demolition, and they set how dust is contained in each room. Structural items go first: anchor bolts through a loose sill, plywood on bare cripple walls, a beam where a bearing wall is coming out. With each wall opened just once, knob-and-tube circuits are replaced, new copper or PEX water lines take the place of the galvanized ones, and a cast iron drain narrowed by scale is cut out. Wall cavities are then insulated, and plaster is repaired where it is still keyed to its lath, with new board and a skim coat where it has let go.

What stays, and who signs off

Sash, panel doors, picture rail, built-in cabinets and old hardware are tagged with the room they came from and stored flat in a dry space until the walls are finished. Missing pieces are milled or cast to match the ones that survived. LADBS issues the West Hills permit and sends an inspector at each stage, and that department handles Canoga Park, Chatsworth, Winnetka and Woodland Hills as well. Exterior trim that has checked under inland valley sun is filled with epoxy and primed, so the street face keeps its original lines while the rooms behind it are rebuilt.

What we can do for a house in West Hills

Whole-house work leads, and every other service is available for the same house.

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