Burbank Remodeling Contractor is a licensed general contractor working in Burbank, California and the surrounding Valley and foothill towns. We take on the big jobs: gutting and rebuilding a whole house, adding square footage, putting a second story on a single-level ranch, or building an ADU in the back yard. Everything is run by our own crew under one schedule and one contract.
The family has been building in Los Angeles County for five generations, better than 120 years, starting from a carpentry workshop and growing into full general contracting. Matt, who runs the company today, is a U.S. Air Force veteran with more than 30 years on job sites. That combination shows up in ordinary ways: framing that is actually square, a schedule that means something, and a crew that cleans up before it leaves.
Call (747) 330-0305 and tell us what you are trying to do with the house. We will walk the property, talk through what Burbank will and will not permit, and put real numbers in front of you.
Whole-Home Remodeling and Room Additions in Burbank, California
Most of our work starts the same way. A Burbank house from the forties or fifties has good bones, a bad floor plan, and systems nobody has touched since the Eisenhower administration. Opening it up properly means structural work, new electrical and plumbing, Title 24 compliance and a permit set. That is general contracting, not handyman work, and it is what we do all day.
Whole House Remodeling in Burbank, CA
Taking the house down to studs and building it back the way you actually live. One contract covers demolition, structure, systems, finishes and final sign-off, so nobody is chasing five different trades for a start date.
Kitchen Remodeling and Layout Changes
Moving walls, relocating gas and plumbing, and rebuilding a kitchen around how you cook rather than where the pipes happened to land in 1952.
Bathroom Remodeling and Primary Suite Builds
Full gut remodels with waterproofed shower assemblies, new supply and waste lines, and the framing changes it takes to grow a cramped hall bath into a real primary bathroom.
Home Additions and Room Additions
Adding square footage on grade: new foundation, framing tied into the existing structure, roof line matched so the addition does not announce itself from the street.
Second-Story Additions on Burbank Homes
When the lot is maxed out, the only direction left is up. Second stories need a structural engineer, a foundation that can carry the load, and a contractor who has done it before.
ADU Construction and Garage Conversions in Burbank, CA
Burbank has been one of the more workable ADU cities in the county since the state opened things up, and the city runs a pre-approved plan program that takes real time and money out of design and plan check. Whether a backyard unit pencils out depends on your lot, your setbacks and where the sewer lateral runs, and that is a conversation worth having before you fall in love with a floor plan.
Detached ADU Construction in Burbank
Ground-up backyard units on their own foundation, with separate utilities where the plan calls for it. This is the highest-value thing most Burbank homeowners can do with an empty back yard.
Garage Conversion ADU
Converting an existing garage into a legal dwelling: raising and pouring a proper slab, framing walls to code, running new service, and getting it past inspection as living space rather than storage.
Junior ADU and In-Law Suite Conversion
Carving a self-contained unit out of the existing footprint for a parent, an adult child or a tenant, with its own entrance and the kitchen facilities the code requires.
Basement Conversion and Below-Grade Living Space
Burbank basements are rare, and the ones that exist were usually built for a furnace rather than for people. Turning one into living space means egress, ceiling height, moisture control and mechanical work.
Structural and Specialty General Contracting in Burbank
The jobs below are the ones homeowners call around about for weeks before they find someone who will take them. They need engineering, permits and a contractor comfortable with the city counter.
- Load-bearing wall removal and open-concept conversions, with engineered beams and proper point loads carried to the foundation
- Hillside home remodels and additions under Burbank's R-1 hillside rules, including the geology and drainage work those trigger
- Fire damage rebuilds, from structural demolition through a finished, re-inspected home
- Legalizing unpermitted garage conversions, additions and bootleg units through as-built permits
- Whole-home rewires, repipes and panel upgrades on pre-1960 houses with knob-and-tube or galvanized supply lines
- Period-correct restoration of Spanish, Craftsman and Mid-Century homes where matching the original detail matters
- Duplex, triplex and small multi-unit renovations, including unit-by-unit turnovers around existing tenants
Why Burbank Homeowners Hire a Fifth-Generation Carpenter
There are a lot of people in this county with a contractor license and a truck. What is harder to find is a builder who has been doing this long enough to tell you, on the first walkthrough, which wall is carrying load and what is behind the plaster.
This family started with a carpentry workshop and spent five generations learning to build before it ever called itself a general contractor. That is still how the company runs. The framing and finish carpentry are done in-house, by carpenters, and the trades we bring in are ones we have worked with for years rather than whoever was cheapest that week.
Matt's time in the Air Force shows up in the parts of the job most homeowners complain about. Sites get cleaned daily. Materials get staged before demolition starts. When we say a wall is going up Thursday, somebody is there Thursday.
Remodeling is disruptive. The point of hiring a real general contractor is that the disruption has a shape to it, an end date, and one person answering for all of it.
How a Burbank Remodel Works, From Design Through Final Inspection
Nobody should sign a construction contract without understanding the sequence. Here is how a project actually runs.
- Walkthrough and scope. We look at the house, listen to what you want, and say plainly what is realistic on your lot and your budget.
- Design and engineering. Plans get drawn, and anything structural goes to an engineer. Hillside lots add geology and drainage work here.
- Plan check and permits. Drawings go to Burbank Community Development through the city's electronic plan review, come back with corrections, get resolved and get issued.
- Construction. Demolition, structure, rough systems, inspections, insulation, drywall, finishes. Each inspection is scheduled so the next trade is not sitting idle.
- Final inspection and closeout. The city signs off, we hand over the permit card, warranty paperwork and everything you need if you sell later.
Burbank Building Permits, Title 24 and the Hillside Overlay
Burbank runs its own Building and Safety division rather than going through Los Angeles, which is generally good news: the counter is local and the plan check is more predictable than LADBS. Permit fees are calculated off project valuation, and additions past a certain size pick up Burbank Unified school district developer fees on top.
Two local rules catch people out. Anything in the hillside area north of the flats falls under the city's hillside development rules, which can require soils and geology reports and a longer review. And every addition and most substantial remodels have to show Title 24 energy compliance, which drives insulation, window specification, lighting and sometimes HVAC. We price all of that into the job rather than surprising you with it at plan check.
Areas We Serve Around Burbank, CA
Burbank is the home base and most of our work is inside the city, from the Rancho equestrian district and Magnolia Park through Toluca Lake and up into the hillside neighborhoods above Glenoaks.
We also build across the surrounding communities: Glendale, North Hollywood, Toluca Lake, Studio City, Sherman Oaks, Valley Village, Sun Valley, Van Nuys, San Fernando, Sunland-Tujunga, Pasadena, La Cañada Flintridge, La Crescenta-Montrose, Eagle Rock, Los Feliz and Silver Lake. Each of those places has its own permit path and its own housing stock, which matters more than the drive time does.
Talk to a Burbank general contractor about your project
Tell us what you have in mind and we will give you a straight answer on scope, permits, timeline and price.
Call (747) 330-0305Frequently asked questions
What size projects do you take on?
We work as a general contractor, so the projects that fit us are the multi-trade ones: whole-house remodels, kitchen and bath gut jobs, additions, second stories, ADUs, garage conversions and structural work. Most of what we build starts in the mid five figures and runs up from there. We are not the right call for a single door hang or a fence repair, and we would rather tell you that than take the job and do it badly.
How long does a remodel take in Burbank?
A full kitchen usually runs eight to fourteen weeks of construction once permits are in hand. A bathroom is four to eight. Additions and ADUs typically run four to seven months of construction, and whole-house remodels six to twelve. The part homeowners underestimate is what comes before construction: design, engineering and Burbank plan check commonly add two to four months, longer on hillside lots.
Do you handle the permits?
Yes. We pull permits through Burbank Community Development, manage the plan check corrections, and schedule every inspection through final. If a job involves a structural change, hillside review or a Title 24 energy calculation, that is all part of the scope we price.
Can you legalize work a previous owner did without permits?
Often, yes. Unpermitted garage conversions and additions are common in Burbank and the surrounding Valley. The process is an as-built permit: we document what exists, open up what has to be inspected, correct whatever does not meet current code, and take it through the city to a legal sign-off. It is worth doing before you try to sell or refinance.
Do you work in Glendale, North Hollywood and the rest of the Valley?
Yes, and the difference between those places matters. Glendale, Pasadena, San Fernando and La Cañada Flintridge each run their own building department with their own review. North Hollywood, Studio City, Sherman Oaks, Van Nuys and the rest of the Valley go through the City of Los Angeles. La Crescenta-Montrose is county jurisdiction. We work in all of them and price the permit path for the one you are actually in.
What does a remodel cost in Burbank?
Kitchens run roughly $46,000 to $98,000 for a midrange full remodel and higher when the layout changes. Bathrooms generally land between $26,000 and $52,000. Additions price by the square foot, commonly $260 to $520 on grade and more for a second story. Both materials and skilled labor have risen sharply over the past year, so any figure you found on a national calculator is low by a wide margin. Our Burbank cost guide breaks it all down.
Are you licensed and insured?
Yes, we carry a California general contractor license along with liability coverage and workers' compensation for our crew. We will hand you the license number and current certificates before you sign anything.