Start with the paperwork.
If your house burned, building it is the second half of the job. The first half is a scope your insurer will price, a lot that tests clean, and a permit. We do both halves.
Four things before framing.
Most of the risk in a rebuild sits in the months before anyone orders lumber: what survived below grade, what the policy actually covers, and what the code now asks for.
What is left
Foundations, flatwork and utilities get tested before anyone plans to reuse them.
The insurance file
Scope, estimate and the back-and-forth, in writing, from one person.
Code as it stands now
Energy, egress, sprinklers and defensible space to today's rules, not the house's.
Built to take it again
Class A roofing, ember-resistant vents, non-combustible cladding where it counts.
Six stages, roughly two years.
Two years is the honest figure for a full rebuild, and most of the first one is not construction. One person runs all six stages.
Site and soil
What the fire did below grade matters more than what it did above it.
Insurance scope
A line-item estimate in the format your adjuster works in.
Decide the house
The same plan, a better plan, or a smaller one. All three are fine.
Drawings and engineering
Current code, current energy rules, current setbacks.
Permits and clearance
Plan check, and the paperwork that releases the lot.
Build and close out
Foundation to final, then a year of warranty calls.
We will still be here in two years.
A rebuild outlasts a lot of builders. Fourteen people, one office in Oxnard, the same licence since 1996, and never more than two houses on the schedule.
Ask for an estimate- Licensed general contractor in California
- One office, in Oxnard
- Priced change orders, signed before work starts
- Weekly written updates
- Warranty calls answered for a year after close-out