Full Home Remodeling in Van Nuys
Van Nuys whole-house remodels priced after the wiring, pipes and framing are checked, planned as one set, with space for a JADU if you want one.
Cover plates come off a handful of outlets and switches in different rooms before we price a Van Nuys whole-house remodel. The cable behind them, the boxes it lands in and whether a ground wire is present show how much of the electrical system can stay. Grounded cable throughout may only need new circuits added, while wiring with no ground points toward rewiring every room while the walls are open.
Reading the wiring before the price
A plug-in tester in each opened outlet shows polarity and ground. The main breaker rating is then set against the loads the new plan adds, such as an induction range, a heat pump or a car charger, and a load calculation tells us whether the service has to grow. Cloth sheathing, splices left outside a box or circuits with no ground move the quote toward a full rewire. If the cable is modern and grounded, it can be extended where the layout changes, which keeps more plaster in place.
Pipes and framing get the same look
Under the kitchen sink and behind an access panel, the supply pipe material and the shutoff valves tell us whether the water lines should be replaced while the house is open. A run of water at full flow with a second tap open shows how the pressure holds up. Where walls are coming out, we check what sits on them from the attic. The quote lists every such finding on a line of its own, so the number matches the house that is actually there.
Full Home Remodeling in Van Nuys: common questions
Yes. A room near an outside wall can be laid out as a junior unit of no more than 500 square feet, kept within the existing house, with a separate door to the outside and a cooking area of its own. If the house is being rewired, the circuits for that small kitchen can be run now, and the sink line can be stubbed in before the floor closes.
If the whole house is being rewired, there will be days with the power off in most rooms, and those are easier spent elsewhere. Outside of that, rooms can be worked in phases, with one bathroom and a temporary kitchen kept running. We mark the shutdown days on the schedule ahead of time so you can plan around them.
After the visit, we draw the house as it exists and the new layout, with the electrical load calculation and any engineer's beam sizes on the sheets. Because Van Nuys is a City of Los Angeles neighborhood, the permit comes from LADBS after plan check. Electrical, plumbing and framing are each inspected rough, then again when the work is complete.
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