We build ADUs across Los Angeles County. We draw the plans and take them through LADBS, the City of LA’s permit office, or your own city’s. Then our crew builds it. Every payment is in your contract before you sign.
Choose a stage to see what we do, what you get and when you pay. The amounts for your lot are on your written estimate.
We measure the yard and the garage and mark the setbacks, the distances the city keeps clear of each property line. We photograph the electric meter and the panel, find the sewer cleanout and check how a concrete truck would reach the back.
A written answer on what fits on your lot, with an estimate for that scope, within three working days.
No charge for the visit or the estimate, and nothing to sign.
We draw the floor plan and the elevations with you and change them until they suit you. Our engineer designs the structure and stamps the drawings, and we prepare the Title 24 energy report.
A permit-ready plan set. Each sheet goes to the city only after you approve it.
The first payment, when you sign the contract. The contract lists every payment after it.
We submit the plans to LADBS or your city. When the plan checker sends corrections, we answer them and resubmit, as many rounds as it takes.
The issued permit and the approved plans, which the inspector checks the build against.
The city’s plan-check and permit fees, paid by you directly to the city. We give you the amount from the city’s own estimate first.
Our crew builds the unit, from the foundation and the framing to the finishes. We book each city inspection as its stage is ready.
Each stage passed by the city inspector before the next one starts.
In stages. Each construction payment falls due after the stage before it passes its city inspection.
We book the final inspection and meet the inspector on site. Anything on the inspector’s list, we fix before the sign-off.
The certificate of occupancy and the keys, with a folder holding the approved plans and your warranty.
The last payment, after the final inspection passes.
If something we built fails in the first year, call us. We come back and fix it at no charge.
One year on the work from the date of the certificate of occupancy, covering what we built. Appliances carry their maker’s warranty.
No charge. The warranty is part of the contract price.
On the site visit we measure your lot and tell you which of these it can take, and at what size.
We build every unit on your lot, from the foundation to the paint. We do not install factory-built units.
One-car, about 250 to 350 sq ft · two-car, about 400 to 600 sq ft
The slab and the roof usually stay. We fill in the door opening, cut the slab for the bathroom drain and raise a ceiling that sits under seven feet.
See garage conversions
Studio to two bedrooms · one or two stories, up to 1,200 sq ft
A new building in the backyard on its own foundation, with its own entrance. On a tight lot, a second story keeps more of the yard.
See detached ADUs
Studio to two bedrooms · its own front door
An addition that shares a wall with your house and has its own kitchen and bathroom. It sits close to the house’s sewer line and electric service, which keeps those runs short.
See attached ADUs and JADUs
Up to 500 sq ft · inside your house
A bedroom or an attached garage turned into a suite with its own outside door and a built-in kitchenette. We go through the JADU rules for your house on the visit.
See attached ADUs and JADUsSwipe for all four
Your written estimate arrives within three working days of the site visit, laid out like this sheet.
The contract price is the price. The one exception is anything the city adds in plan check, which we price in writing for your approval first.
Paying with a loan? We give your lender the plans, the contract and the payment schedule.
Tell us what the unit is for, and anything that adds goes on your estimate as its own line.
If the power or the water has to go off, you hear from us the day before.
Anything else, call us at (310) 857-2520.
Not on the list? Ask it on the site visit, with your lot in front of us.
Book a free site visitUsually not. We feed most units from a new sub-panel on your existing service, so you keep one electric account. If your main panel is under 200 amps, we check on the site visit whether it needs an upgrade, and that goes on the estimate as its own line.
A separate meter means a new utility service at a higher price. We check whether your city or the utility asks for one before the drawings are done.
You pay them directly to the city, and you know the amount before you sign. We take it from the city’s own fee estimate for your plans and put it on your estimate as its own line.
It depends most on your city. Design and construction run on our schedule, and your estimate shows the time we plan for each. Plan check runs on the city’s. We tell you your city’s usual pace on the site visit.
You lose the covered spaces inside the garage. The driveway usually stays, so you can still park on it. We check your city’s parking rules for your lot and tell you on the site visit.
We tell you in writing, and you owe nothing. If a garage conversion or a JADU would work where a detached unit will not, the answer says so.
Yes. We draw the plans, our engineer stamps them and we take them through the city. Then our crew builds the unit, and we book every inspection through the final.
Your plans go to the permit office for your address. We tell you which one on the first call.
Plans go to LADBS, the City of LA’s permit office.
The Valley · the Westside · Hollywood · Silver Lake and the Eastside · South LA · the Harbor area
Plans go to LA County Public Works.
Altadena · East Los Angeles · Ladera Heights · View Park · Topanga
Each city checks ADU plans at its own counter.
Pasadena · Glendale · Burbank · Santa Monica · West Hollywood · Culver City · Long Beach, and the county’s other cities
Since the January 2025 fires in the Palisades and Altadena, many owners ask. We check your lot’s fire-zone rules before the first drawing, so the materials they call for are in your estimate.
