Culver City, Los Angeles County
Decks, Additions and Structural Work in Culver City
Culver City raised decks, additions and structural repair, with the ledger, posts and footings designed for the lot and permitted by the city.
Can the back of the house carry a raised deck if the yard falls away from it? For a Culver City lot, the answer begins with the soil and the framing behind the ledger. We open up the rim joist, check the sill and the anchor bolts, and look at where posts would land. If the house can take the load, we design the deck. If it cannot, the repair goes into the quote first.
Posts, footings and the ledger
A raised deck hangs half its weight on the house and stands the rest on posts. The ledger gets through-bolts and flashing that sheds water past the siding, and the posts sit on concrete piers sized for the soil we test. Lateral connectors tie the deck back to the floor framing so it cannot sway away from the wall. On a level yard, a ground-level deck or a patio slab needs far less of this, and the price reflects it.
Additions and the Culver City building department
Culver City is an incorporated city, and its building department reviews additions, decks and structural changes inside its limits. We prepare the plan set, structural calculations and energy forms the reviewer requests and respond to each round of comments until the set is approved. Work in Palms or Mar Vista falls under the City of Los Angeles and its LADBS reviewers. Beverly Hills and Inglewood each keep their own office. We sort out which one applies to the parcel before a single line of the design is drawn.
Work we take on in Culver City
Each service is planned around the lot, sloped or level.
Building in Culver City?
Send the address and the job, and a builder will arrange a visit to read the lot.