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Exterior contractor for Commerce homes
Exterior remodeling in Commerce, CA gives your postwar house new dual-pane windows, sliding doors, sound stucco, fresh paint, siding repairs or a new roof, planned as one job. Los Angeles Home Remodelers is the design-build exterior remodeling contractor in Commerce that carries it from the first walk-around to the last coat of trim.
One project manager files permits with the city’s Building and Safety Division where your work needs them, then sends in roofers, window installers, plasterers and painters in order. Most single-trade jobs take days to a few weeks. Your free in-home visit ends with a written, itemized estimate.
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Exterior remodeling in Commerce
Serving Rosewood, Ayers, Bandini-Rosini and homes across Commerce, CA.
Exterior remodeling in Commerce usually means bringing a plain, sturdy 1940s or 1950s house up to date without losing its character. We replace what’s worn out, repair what’s still sound and leave you an outside that asks for little upkeep.
Commerce is mostly industrial, and its homes sit in a few small neighborhoods. Most went up before 1960, so many still carry original single-pane windows, a stucco skin patched again and again, and roofing that’s ready to come off.
We decide which trade goes first and run them all under one contract. You talk to one project manager instead of chasing a roofer, a window company and a painter.
What we replace and repair
Pick one trade or combine a few. Each service below is written for the small stucco houses you’ll find across the city.
Many Commerce houses still have their first steel or aluminum single-pane windows, the kind that rattle and sweat in winter. We fit dual-pane Low-E units into those openings and flash each one into the stucco.
Our window page compares retrofit and full-frame installs.
Seventy years of patches leave most walls here with three or four textures side by side. We cut out the hollow sections, fix the paper behind them and float a texture that matches the sound stucco around it.
Cracks that keep reopening get traced to their cause first.
A full tear-off shows us the roof deck on your older Commerce house, and soft boards get replaced before any underlayment goes down. Most of these simple gable and hip roofs take asphalt shingles.
Planning solar? We’ll leave the new roof ready for the panels.
On a narrow lot, the garage door can fill much of the street side. We replace warped wood or dented steel doors with insulated sectional ones, then add new tracks, an opener and a bottom seal.
The stucco around the frame gets patched to match. Ask about it at your visit.
Paint only lasts on a wall that’s washed, repaired and primed first. Because most homes here predate 1978, we test the old coats and keep scraping lead-safe.
Then we choose masonry paint or an elastomeric coating wall by wall, and finish the trim and fascia in the same visit.
A swollen front door that drags on its threshold lets in drafts and dust. We hang a pre-hung wood, fiberglass or steel door over a sill pan, with new weatherstripping and hardware.
Want a security screen door too? Mention it when we come out.
How it works
You’ll see every trade priced on paper before a single window gets ordered.
Send the form with your address and what’s bothering you: drafts, cracks, a leak or faded paint. We look up the year your house was built before we arrive.
We open every window, tap the stucco for hollow spots, probe the fascia for rot and check the roof sheathing from the attic.
Roofing, windows, stucco, doors and paint come as separate lines, with lead testing and permit fees shown.
We email the applications, order made-to-size windows and start at the roof, then work down the walls to the final coat.
Commerce’s Building and Safety Division, part of Community Development, takes permit applications by email and offers electronic plan check. Your plans get reviewed under the Los Angeles County codes, and we answer any plan check comments for you.
Paint and small patches usually go ahead without a permit. Window replacements, re-roofs and larger stucco jobs may need one, so we confirm your scope with the city before ordering anything. The city has designated only a handful of landmarks, and we check whether yours is one.
Postwar stucco houses
A house from this era has stucco over wire lath and building paper, and that paper is often brittle by now. It’s the first place we look when a wall cracks or a window leaks.
At the visit, we check:
The city’s Housing Element estimates that about one home in ten may need rehabilitation. On those houses, the walls need repair before they need a new color.
When we open a wall, any soft framing gets photographed and priced. You see it before we close it up.
Exterior remodeling cost
On a small Commerce house, repairs hidden under the surface swing the total more than square footage does.
We price your house once we’ve seen it, each trade on its own line. That lets you do the roof now and the paint next year if it suits your budget.
Every window or door you replace adds a unit, new flashing and a stucco patch around it.
Retrofit units keep the old frame; full-frame installs cost more but fix rot and failed flashing.
Delaminated or soft boards found at tear-off get replaced before the new roof goes on.
Older paint, stucco or roofing may need lab tests and containment before work starts.
A roof, windows and paint on one schedule share setup, protection and cleanup.
We’ll show you where water gets in, what to fix first and what the city needs to approve. It costs nothing, and you sign nothing.
Questions
Permits, lead paint, solar and timing, answered for postwar Commerce houses.
Your price comes from the trades you combine and the repairs your walls and roof need. A house with sound decking and ten windows costs far less than one needing a tear-off and new stucco. After the free visit, you get a written, itemized estimate.
Often, yes. Replacing windows can call for a building permit, and we confirm it with Building and Safety for your exact scope. We file by email, respond to plan check if the city asks for drawings and meet the inspector.
Probably. Most homes here were built before 1960, and paint applied before 1978 may contain lead. We test first, then follow EPA lead-safe practices: containment, careful prep and a cleanup check.
Repair is enough when the cracks are hairline and the wall behind them is dry. If patches sound hollow or the paper has failed across a large area, a new stucco system lasts longer. We mark which walls fall in which group.
Rarely. The city adopted a preservation ordinance in 1982 but has designated only a handful of landmarks. If your house is one, we find out what review applies before ordering windows or doors.
Yes, and a new roof is the right moment. We leave it ready for panels, and the city routes residential solar through SolarAPP+, an online permit path. Your solar installer handles the panels themselves.
Most single-trade jobs take days to a few weeks on site. A full exterior runs longer, since stucco patches need time to cure before paint, and window orders often set the start date.
Keep reading
The full picture: house styles, the building envelope and the right order of work.
Frames, glass and installs compared, with the permit and Title 24 basics.
Cracks, patches and full re-stucco, and how to tell which one your wall needs.
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New windows, sound stucco and a sealed roof keep the weather out and cut your upkeep. We plan, permit and build it on one contract. Book your free in-home visit.
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