Full Home Remodeling for Older Lomita Homes
Older Lomita houses remodeled for daily use: rewired so every room lights from its doorway, outlets where furniture stands, and original plaster kept.
In a finished older Lomita house, each room should light from the door you walk in through, the hallway should have a switch at either end, and a kitchen counter should get good task light with no lamp cord in the way. Older houses tend to have a single pull chain or ceiling fixture per room. A whole-house rewire is when that changes, while the original trim and plaster stay.
Planning light and power around use
We walk each room with you and mark where you enter, where you sit and where you work. Switches go at those doorways, outlets go where furniture will stand, and the kitchen gets under-cabinet lights on their own circuit. Bedrooms get arc-fault protected circuits, and the bath gets a fan on a timer so the mirror clears. Fixtures can suit the age of the house, with new wiring behind period-style plates and boxes set so the plaster around them is only lightly cut and patched to match.
Other daily-use changes
Doors that stick get planed and rehung so they close quietly. Floors are leveled where they dip near a bath. A laundry hookup can move to a spot with a floor drain and a short dryer run to the outside. Built-in cabinets stay where they are useful and get new hinges and catches. The building department serving Lomita reviews the plans and inspects the rough wiring and plumbing before walls are closed. The same planning goes into homes in Torrance, Rolling Hills Estates and San Pedro.
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Plaster walls that are firmly attached, wood casings, panel doors, built-in cabinets and original light fixtures that can be rewired are worth keeping. We check each one, and the scope says whether it is reused as is, repaired or swapped out, plus what that choice means for the work around it.
We phase the work so a bedroom, a bath and a basic kitchen stay usable. Each phase is sealed with plastic and a negative-air fan. Power is shut off only to the circuits being worked on, and the schedule shows when each room is unavailable and when it comes back.
Lomita plaster, flooring and paint samples are lab-tested ahead of demolition for asbestos and lead. The panel is load-tested, each circuit checked for grounding, water lines tested for pressure and leaks, and the drain line looked at with a camera so the plan accounts for what turns up.
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