Altadena General Contractor: Fire Rebuilds, Remodels, and Painting

Build And Decor comes to Altadena as a licensed Class B general building contractor with more than 400 projects behind us, offering rebuild services to homeowners affected by the January 2025 Eaton Fire. Your rebuild gets a named superintendent, a written schedule, and a crew that shows up.

Insurance works like this. You and your carrier settle the scope. We build to the scope you settle on, and we document our work as we go with photographs, written change records, and inspection results you can hand to your adjuster. We do not negotiate or adjust claims. California licenses public adjusters for that work, and we will tell you so directly.

The County sets the rules for your lot. Los Angeles County Planning publishes a like-for-like pathway for a replacement structure at the same size, in the same location, and for the same land use, with modifications up to 10 percent or 200 square feet before a project leaves that pathway. Past those limits, Title 22, the Altadena Community Standards District, and a 20-foot front yard setback come into play. Most of the burn area falls inside a Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone, so Chapter 7A of the California Building Code governs the exterior: Class A roof assemblies, ember-resistant vents with corrosion-resistant mesh, and ignition-resistant or noncombustible eave protection. Oak tree protections and Altadena's historic landmark designations can apply to a parcel as well. Your parcel decides which pathway fits, and the County makes that call.

We will not promise you a permit date. We prepare a complete plan set, submit it, and turn County corrections around fast. The County operates a One-Stop Permit Center on West Woodbury Road in Altadena for rebuild questions, and we will sit down with you there or stand on your lot, whichever helps more.

Altadena's housing stock runs old and well built. Craftsman bungalows from the 1920s, postwar homes from the 1940s and 1950s, Spanish revivals in between. These houses reward good work and punish shortcuts.

Open a wall in a house of that age and you find things. Raised foundations with cripple walls that were never bolted to the sill. Post and pier systems that have settled unevenly under a kitchen. Lath and plaster that cracks the moment a neighboring wall moves. Knob and tube remnants spliced into later circuits. Galvanized supply lines choked down to a trickle. Ductwork run through a crawlspace that has been damp for decades.

We open carefully and price honestly. When we find a condition that was not visible at the walkthrough, you get a photograph, a written explanation, and a decision to make before we proceed. Foundation and framing repairs go in before finishes. Plaster gets patched to match, or replaced with drywall floated to a plaster-like plane, and we set that expectation before demolition.

The work we take on here: kitchen remodels, bathroom remodels, full home renovation, additions, ADU construction, garage conversions, drywall, outdoor living, commercial remodeling, and water and mold damage restoration.

We hold a C-33 Painting and Decorating classification alongside our Class B, so painting stays in house. No brokered sub, no mystery crew, no gap in accountability between the contractor you hired and the person cutting your ceiling line.

Exterior work in Altadena means sun and heat. South and west elevations bake, stucco chalks, and older wood trim moves with the seasons. We wash, scrape, and sand to sound substrate, prime bare wood and bare stucco, caulk joints that have opened, then paint. Two coats. We use the product the surface calls for and we tell you what we are putting on the house.

Interior work is protection first. We mask, cover floors, and contain dust before a brush comes out. Repairs get sanded flat before color goes on, because a good paint job on bad drywall is still a bad wall.

Painting also finishes what a rebuild starts. When we frame, hang, tape, and texture a house, the same company puts the final coat on it and stands behind both.

License first. Our California contractor license covers Class B General Building and Class C-33 Painting and Decorating. Verify it at the CSLB website before you hire anyone, including us. Ask every contractor bidding your job for their number and do the same.

We carry insurance, and we will send you the certificate before we start. A rebuild or a major remodel puts people and equipment on your property for months. You should know who covers what.

Our reviews are public. Clients rate our work 5.0 stars on average across 88 reviews. Ratings current as of August 2026. Read them. Then call a reference and ask what happened when something went wrong, because something always does, and the answer tells you more than the star count.

Every project carries a one-year workmanship warranty. If our work fails inside that year, we come back and fix it.

A working project lead answers the phone and walks the job. On a rebuild, that matters more than a logo.

The estimate is free and it happens on site. We walk the property, measure, ask what you want the house to do, and put a written scope in your hands. Investment scales to scope and materials, and we will show you what drives it in either direction.

Build And Decor Construction serves Altadena along with the Westside, Hollywood and mid-city, northeast Los Angeles neighborhoods, and coastal Orange County.

Call (949) 558-9738. Email sebastian@buildanddecorconstruction.com. Mail reaches us at 8033 Sunset Blvd #336, Los Angeles, CA 90046.