Exterior remodeling
Exterior Remodeling in San Jose, the South Bay and the Peninsula
Most exterior projects touch more than one trade before they are finished. We carry stucco, siding, windows, doors, drywall and paint under one Class B general building license, so a wall gets opened once instead of five times by five different companies. Asked in plain terms what the company does, Jose Dominguez put it this way: "We help homeowners and property managers to upgrade their exterior walls with, you know, new stucco and everything around that, since from demo to paint."
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What demo to paint means here
Demo to paint describes the order of a job: something gets opened, whatever is found behind it gets addressed, and the wall closes back up finished and painted, in one contract instead of a chain of separate calls. So one point of contact carries the job from the first opened wall through the permit, the plan and the finish coat.
When I say demo to paint, that means, let's say I get a call for stucco because it's damaged in an older home... We can help you obtain a permit with the city. We can bring engineers to help us for the planning, architects to create the plans, work with the city.
Every trade on the wall, one contract
A whole house exterior remodel usually needs some combination of the following, carried under one license by one crew:
- Stucco repair for cracked, bulging or water damaged walls
- New stucco and re-stucco for resurfacing or converting siding to stucco
- Siding repair and replacement where the exterior is staying in siding
- Dry rot, wood rot and termite damage repair for what a wall reveals once it is open
- Window replacement and entry and patio door replacement for the openings in that wall
- Drywall repair and installation for the interior side of the same wall
- Interior and exterior painting to finish it
Every trade on this list is priced, scheduled and warrantied inside one contract, run by one crew from the first wall opened to the last coat of paint.
Why one contractor changes how the job runs
The cost of the multi contractor version of a remodel is in the handoffs: a siding company that will not touch the framing it exposed, a window installer who leaves the patch to whoever shows up next, a painter waiting on a stucco crew that has not scheduled yet. Each handoff is a place a project can stall, a place responsibility gets unclear if something behind the wall does not match what was planned, and a place the homeowner ends up doing the project management by default.
Have more than one thing going on with your exterior? Say so on the first call, before anyone prices a single trade.
How the sequence runs, demo to final finish
A whole envelope job follows a rough order rather than five separate schedules stacked on top of each other. Demolition opens the wall. Where the scope requires it, the permit, engineering and architectural steps happen before anything closes back up, not after. Framing and carpentry get addressed while the wall is already open, because that is the point where damaged wood is visible and cheapest to fix. See dry rot and wood repair. The exterior envelope goes back on, in stucco or siding, then the openings, windows and doors, get set or patched back into it. Interior drywall exposed from the outside gets closed and finished. Paint is the last coat on both sides of the same wall.
That sequence, not a calendar, is what keeps a wall from getting opened a second time. This page covers the order of the trades. For the client facing steps, from the first call through the final walkthrough, see our process.
Permits, engineers and architects, folded into one contract
Some exterior jobs stay simple repairs. Others grow once a wall is actually open. When a job is more than a repair and walls get opened to expose framing, the city often treats that as the point to require an upgrade.
Handling that step stays inside one contract, with the crew that opened the wall responsible for seeing the permit, the engineer and the architect through to sign-off. Requirements vary by city and by scope. We confirm with your local building department before we quote.
On a multi building project, nearly every scope needs engineering. That story, including hold-downs and shear walls, is covered in full on multifamily exterior renovation.
Where a whole house exterior remodel makes sense
Older homes across the South Bay and the Peninsula are the most common candidate, houses where the stucco or siding, the windows and the paint were all done around the same decade and are now aging out around the same time. A whole house exterior remodel also comes up ahead of a sale, when curb appeal across the whole elevation matters more than fixing the one thing that is obviously broken, and on homes with a genuine mix of problems rather than one clean issue.
When to call for a full remodel instead of one repair
A single, contained problem, one cracked section of stucco or one leaking window, is usually still a single service call, and the pages linked above cover those directly. A whole house exterior remodel gets the call instead when more than one system is showing its age at the same time, when a repair estimate keeps turning up more behind the wall than the original complaint, or when the plan is to open the exterior once and be done with the whole envelope rather than repeat the process trade by trade over several years.
Licensed and warrantied on the whole project
The same Class B general building license and C-35 Lathing and Plastering license, CSLB #1044105, cover every trade named on this page. The two year warranty against water intrusion applies to the exterior stucco assembly on the project, material and labor, the same as it does on a single stucco job. Siding, window and door units, and interior finishes carry their own coverage as described on each page. Full terms are in writing before work starts.
How an exterior remodeling estimate works
Photos are a reasonable starting point for a single trade repair, but a whole house exterior remodel gets a full walkthrough, because the scope depends on how the trades interact once a wall is open. After the walkthrough you get a written proposal covering scope, sequence and price, and if a permit is needed we start that process before locking a start date. See the full five step process.
Where we do whole house exterior remodels
Full exterior remodels take this crew across Santa Clara, San Mateo, Alameda and Contra Costa counties, concentrated in the South Bay and the Peninsula. See the full list of cities.
Questions
Questions people ask about this work
If yours is not here, ask us on the phone. It is a better use of your time than guessing.
Can we live in the house while a whole exterior remodel runs?
On most single family projects, yes. Walls come open one elevation at a time and each one gets closed before the crew moves on, and the crew cleans up and clears a path at the end of every day.
What happens to the schedule if one trade on the job runs behind?
The project manager resequences the trades still to come, because every trade on this list runs off one schedule, not each trade's own calendar. You hear about the change from the same person who has been running the job, not by noticing a crew never showed up.
Two years on, with six trades having touched the house, who do I call?
The same number you called at the start. One contract means one company answering for it, and the proposal names which trade's terms apply to what you are looking at.
If a repair turns out to be bigger once the wall is open, does it turn into a full remodel automatically?
Not without you agreeing to it first. Opening a wall for one repair can reveal enough to justify a fuller scope, but that shift gets priced and approved as a change to the plan before it starts, never assumed just because more got found.
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Free estimate
One contract from the first opened wall to the last coat.
One walkthrough covers every trade on the list above, and the proposal comes back with the sequence, not just the price.
Monday to Friday, 8:00am to 5:00pm. Se habla español.
CSLB #1044105, Class B and C-35. Two year warranty against water intrusion on exterior stucco.