ADU Construction in Pacoima, Planned From the Gate In
Pacoima ADUs planned around the route into the backyard: what machine fits, how soil and debris leave, and how the older house is covered on the way past.
Whether a digging machine can reach the back of a Pacoima lot depends on the way in. If a compact excavator fits through the gate and past the older house, trenches go in by machine and the soil rides out in its bucket. If the side yard is too tight even for that, the footings are dug by hand and the spoil leaves in wheelbarrows, so we measure the route against the machine before anything is ordered.
Soil, slab and debris going out
Material leaving the lot uses the same route as material arriving. Footing spoil, the broken concrete of an old patio and the framing of a shed that has to come down all travel past the house, so the order matters: demolition and digging first, while the path is clear, then deliveries. A bin waits in the driveway on plywood. Soil that can stay is spread and compacted where the yard needs fill, which cuts the number of loads carried out past the house.
What the route passes
The path to the back runs beside the house's original windows, its corner boards and, on some lots, a raised foundation with vents near the ground. Those vents are covered so dust and soil do not blow into the crawlspace, the glass gets rigid panels, and soil is kept from piling against the siding. Hose bibs and meters along the way are boxed. When the work is done, the covers come off and the wall looks as it did before the first load went by.
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The utility trench follows the same route, so it is dug while the side yard is open and backfilled before deliveries start. It carries the feeder from the house panel, or a line to a new LADWP meter where the panel is full, plus the water supply. Where it passes the house's own gas or water line, that stretch is opened by hand.
Often, and a garage at the end of a driveway helps the whole job, since the driveway becomes the route. Its slab, sills and rafters get checked, and while the conversion is designed, the garage can hold materials under cover. The house's driveway slab is protected with plywood where loaded carts cross it.
By the wall surface. If the main house is stucco, a sample board is troweled to its texture, tinted to its color and approved against the house in daylight. If it is wood siding, the unit's boards match its exposure and corner trim. Either way, those materials are cut to lengths that can be carried past the house.
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