Full Home Remodeling in Studio City
Studio City whole-house remodels that test old hardwood under carpet, lace in boards where walls come out, sequence the trades and can make room for a JADU.
"Can the hardwood under this carpet be saved?" is worth answering on the first walk through a Studio City house headed for a full remodel. We lift a corner of carpet in a closet and pull a floor register to see the board edge. The thickness above the tongue shows how many more sandings the wood can take, and stains, cupping or pet damage show how much would need replacing before a refinish.
Where the walls used to be
Taking out a wall leaves a strip of bare subfloor where its bottom plate sat, and the boards on either side rarely line up. New boards of the same species and width are laced in, staggered into the old field so the repair has no straight seam. While the floor is open, loose subfloor is screwed down to quiet squeaks. The whole house is then sanded and finished at once, which gives patched and original boards one color and sheen across every room.
Floors last in the order
Hardwood refinishing waits until the dusty and heavy work is done. Framing, plumbing, wiring and ducts go in first and pass their rough inspections with the walls open. Insulation is checked next, then drywall is hung, taped and sanded. Cabinets and trim follow, and only after the painters finish does the floor crew do the sanding and final coats. Floors are covered with protection board through the earlier stages, and nobody walks on the boards for a few days while the finish cures.
Full Home Remodeling in Studio City: common questions
When a room inside the house can be closed off on its own, yes. State rules hold a junior unit to 500 square feet within the existing structure, require an exterior entrance, and call for a small kitchen with a cooking appliance, counter space and cabinets. Framing that suite during the remodel avoids reopening finished rooms later.
Staying is workable while framing goes on at the far end of the house. The hard stretches are the weeks when the kitchen is gutted and the days the floors are sanded and coated, since nobody can walk on fresh finish. We put those on the schedule back to back, which keeps the hardest days together.
Planning starts with a measured drawing of the existing house, then a proposed plan showing wall changes, new circuits and plumbing. An engineer adds calculations wherever a bearing wall moves. For Studio City the permit comes from LADBS, whose inspectors visit at rough framing, at the rough trades and again before the house is signed off.
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