West Hills Fire Rebuild & Reconstruction
West Hills fire rebuilds with buried lines located before post footings are drawn, LADBS review handled, and any rerouting priced as its own quote item.
A drain pipe running beneath the spot where a new post footing belongs can redraw the back wall of a West Hills rebuild. Glass across the yard side means the beam overhead puts its weight on a few posts, and each post needs a footing sized for that load. If the house's drain line or a buried conduit crosses that spot, the post shifts along the wall or a grade beam spans over the pipe, and either change reaches the drawings and the quote.
Locating what runs under the opening
A cleared lot still has its old drain, water and power lines in the ground, and the plans from the original house may not show where they run. We locate them with a camera pushed through the cleanout and a locator for metal lines, then mark the routes on the site plan. A footing that would sit on top of a pipe gets moved, or the pipe gets rerouted if it needs replacing anyway after the fire. Either way the engineer sees the conflict before the posts are fixed in the drawings.
Plan review and an itemized quote
LADBS checks the structural calculations for the beam, posts and footings, and a new layout gets a more thorough review than the old footprint rebuilt. The site plan shows the rerouted line where one was moved. In our written quote, the beam, the footings and any pipe rerouting each appear as separate items, so the extra work found underground is easy to see. When the quote and the insurance scope disagree on an item, the note next to it gives the reason in plain words.
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Yes. A room can grow, a wall can open toward the yard and the kitchen can move. A changed layout is read more closely at plan review than the original footprint, and every new post it creates needs a clear spot for its footing. We show those spots on the sketch before you choose.
Possibly, after an engineer tests it. Cracks, heat damage and the state of the steel decide whether the slab stays. Keeping it also keeps the drain lines cast under it, so those are checked with a camera at the same time. A slab that fails is replaced and priced on a separate line.
Every item in our written quote carries its own figure, and you can hold the insurance scope against it. Work the scope never anticipated, such as moving a post off a buried pipe, appears as a separate entry with its cause. Where both list the same item at different amounts, the reason is written beside it.
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