Water damage
What a Drying Log Is and Why to Ask for One
Anyone can point a fan at a wet wall and call it dry two days later. A drying log is the difference between that and a job somebody measured — and you are entitled to ask for one.
Guides
The parts of a remodel nobody explains properly
Who issues your permit. Whether a contractor's license is real. What a line-item estimate should actually contain. These are the questions we get asked on walkthroughs, answered here in full, with the sources named and the date we checked them.
Written by a licensed Class B general building contractor — California CSLB #1123274 — working in Rodeo and across Contra Costa County. Where a guide states a rule, it names the office that set it. Rules change: confirm anything you are about to rely on with the agency itself.
Water damage
Why Under-Sink Water Filters Leak
It is a pressurised plastic housing with a rubber seal, sitting on a cabinet floor nobody looks at, usually fitted once and then forgotten. Here is how one fails, and what it does when it does.
Permits & process
Who Issues Your Remodel Permit in Contra Costa
Nineteen cities in this county issue their own remodel permits, and everywhere else is the county's. Here is how to work out which office is yours before you start.
Hiring a contractor
How to Check a California Contractor License
Anyone can print a license number on a van. Checking whether it is real, current, and attached to the person standing in your kitchen takes about five minutes on a state website — and almost nobody does it.
Questions a guide cannot answer?
Some things need somebody standing in the room. We walk the space, measure, and give you a written line-itemed estimate.
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