Full Home Remodeling for Older Hidden Hills Houses
Older Hidden Hills houses remodeled whole, with buried walls, loose additions and old splices found, priced and signed before work goes on, ember rules noted.
Inside an interior wall of an older Hidden Hills house there may be old siding and a window frame, left from the day an earlier addition was built against what used to be the outside of the house. Once the plaster opens, that buried wall shows how the addition was tied in, whether its footing matches the original and whether the new layout can remove it.
Findings that rewrite the plan
A buried exterior wall often still carries roof load, so taking it out means an engineered beam and posts down to footings that can hold them. If the addition's floor sits on a separate foundation with no connection to the house, an engineer details how the two are tied before new finishes span the joint. Wiring added with the addition may splice into the old circuits inside a covered box, or with no box at all. Every finding is written up with a price and a reason, and nothing past it continues until you sign.
Fire maps and the plan check
Parts of Hidden Hills are inside mapped fire hazard zones, and a lot within one may face ember-resistance rules for vents, roofing, siding and new glazing. The building department that serves the city handles plan review and the stage inspections, and a buried wall found partway through may need a revised sheet before framing is signed. Original doors, wood ceilings where they exist and sound windows are protected or stored, then refit. Calabasas reviews its own permits, while Woodland Hills and Tarzana go through LADBS.
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Wood ceilings, solid doors, wood casing, built-in shelving and sashes with firm frames are kept when they can be repaired. On a wall facing ember-resistance rules, new glazing may be required, though the original casing around the opening can often stay. The scope names each kept item and the reason.
The house is taken in sealed sections, each closed off with plastic and a fan venting dust outdoors, while you keep a bath and a kitchen elsewhere. Work in the attic and under the floor is grouped so each room you live in is disturbed once. An opened wall that changes the plan pauses only its own section.
A testing lab checks plaster, flooring and mastic, attic insulation and painted surfaces for asbestos and lead, and the report is back before anything is torn out. The circuits are tested for ground, the supply piping is held under pressure, and a camera checks the drain line leaving the house.
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