Older home remodeling in Westlake Village, Los Angeles County

Remodeling Older Homes in Westlake Village

Will the original wood floors survive? Whole house remodeling for older Westlake Village homes, floors covered, patched with matched boards, then refinished.

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Will the original wood floors make it through a whole house remodel in Westlake Village? Floor protection gets planned before any trade arrives, so it helps to ask early. Boards that are sound can stay, covered while the walls are opened, then refinished near the end. Where a wall comes out, the gap it leaves in the floor is filled with matched boards woven in.

Protecting and patching old flooring

Before demolition, each room's floor is checked for loose boards, deep stains and old repairs, and a sample of any finish suspected of lead goes to a lab. Hardboard sheets with taped seams then cover the floor along every path the trades will use. Where a removed wall leaves a strip of subfloor, boards are salvaged from a closet or pulled from under a cabinet run, then laced into the gap so the grain and width match. Squeaks are fixed from below where the crawlspace allows. The new finish goes down last, after paint and trim are done.

Ember rules and the systems behind the walls

Where a Westlake Village address falls within mapped fire hazard areas, exterior work can bring ember-resistance standards for vents, eaves and replaced glass, and the building department for the address confirms which apply before the outside of the house is scoped. Inside, knob-and-tube circuits and galvanized supply lines are swapped while the plaster is open, with rough inspections before anything closes. Thousand Oaks, Agoura Hills, Oak Park, Newbury Park, Calabasas and Malibu are close by, and floors in those homes are protected the same way.

What we can do for a house in Westlake Village

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