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Framing contractor in San Bernardino County, CA

Walls opened up, with the load carried properly

Structural framing by a licensed Class B general contractor across the Inland Valley and the High Desert. Load-bearing wall removals, addition and garage conversion shells, and rot repair, built to an engineer’s sizes under a permit pulled in our name.

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Why builders and homeowners hand us the frame

Licensed and bonded

CSLB # 1105333, Class B General Building, plus a $25,000 contractor bond. Both are public record and both are linked further down this page.

The load path is priced, not discovered

Where the beam lands, what carries it and whether there is a footing under it are settled and costed before we start, not found halfway through.

Shored before it is cut

Temporary support goes in first, every time. It costs a day and it is the difference between a wall removal and a ceiling coming down.

Nothing gets covered before the inspector sees it

Frame, shear and nailing inspections happen before insulation and drywall. Work that got closed up early is work somebody has to open again.

House framing on a 1981 tract house

Taking out that wall is the easy part

What most people want is the kitchen open to the living room, and the wall in the middle is usually holding up the roof. Removing it means a beam sized by an engineer, a post at each end, and a path for that load to travel all the way down to the ground. That last part is the one nobody mentions when they quote it. The load has to land somewhere, and often that means breaking the slab and pouring a footing under the post. It is real work, it is in the drawings, and it is the line that shows up as somebody else’s change order three weeks in.

Framing is also most of what goes wrong quietly in a house this age. A raised-floor home in Redlands or San Bernardino with a soft spot in the floor usually has a rotted mudsill or a rim joist gone to subterranean termites. A High Desert house that has taken thirty years of wind through the Cajon Pass can have sheathing and nailing that would not pass today. And every addition, garage conversion and ADU is a framing job before it is anything else. We do all of it, and none of it gets covered up before the inspector has seen it.
Interior of a home at the framing stage, stud walls and door openings before drywall

What rough framing covers

What this framing job includes

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Every line below goes into your written scope before work starts, so there is nothing to argue about later regarding what was and was not included.

  • Layout from the approved plans, checked against what the house actually is
  • Beams, headers and posts to the engineer's sizes, not to a rule of thumb
  • The load path carried down, including a new footing where the post lands
  • Temporary shoring in place before anything structural is cut
  • Shear panels, holdowns and the nailing schedule the plans call for
  • Frame and shear inspections met before anything gets covered

Start with the written scope

The next step is your job on paper

You have just read how the work runs. The next move is a walkthrough of your house, a written scope of what the job covers, and a schedule carrying the same stages. Ask for all three before you commit to anything.

  • Home walkthrough
  • Written scope
  • Working schedule
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Structural framing changes

Trace the load path before removing or moving a wall

A wall can look nonstructural and still support ceiling members, brace the building or carry concentrated loads from above. Openings also change where those loads arrive at the floor and foundation.

Confirm the framing direction and obtain structural details where needed before demolition. The beam is only one part of the change; posts, connections and support below belong in the same drawing and scope.
Crack running through a concrete surface before repair work

Framing around building systems

Reserve routes for ducts, drains and wiring before the structure closes

Plumbing needs slope, ducts need space and electrical runs need safe drilling and protection. If those routes are left until after framing, trades can compete for the same cavity or ask for structural members to be altered.

Coordinate the openings during layout and inspect them at rough-in. It is faster to move a line on the plan than to repair a cut joist or rebuild a chase after the wall is standing.
Insulated flexible ductwork and a new air handler set on framing in a residential attic

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Questions about Framing

Straight answers before you commit

All questions
Can I take out this wall?
Usually yes, but the question is what it costs, not whether it is possible. If the wall is not carrying anything it is a straightforward job. If it is holding the roof or a floor above, you are buying a beam, posts at both ends, and often a new footing under each post, which means breaking and pouring slab. We can tell you which one you have on the first visit for nothing, and we would rather you heard the real number now than after the drywall is off.
How do I know if a wall is load bearing?
The reliable way is to look at which direction the joists or trusses above it run. A wall running perpendicular to them is usually carrying them; one running parallel often is not. Walls stacked under a wall on the floor above and walls sitting over a beam or a girder are carrying something too. Guessing from the floor plan is how people get hurt. We go into the attic and look, and it takes about ten minutes.
Why does removing a wall need a permit and an engineer?
Because the moment you take out something structural, somebody has to be accountable for what holds the house up instead. In California that means an engineer sizes the beam and the posts and shows the load path down to a footing, and the building department checks the work against those drawings. It also means the change is on the record. Unpermitted structural work is the item that stalls an escrow years later, and it is the easiest problem in the world to avoid now.
Will you frame for another contractor, or only your own jobs?
Both. We take rough framing packages for other general contractors and for owner-builders as well as running our own projects, and we will work to your plans and your schedule. What we will not do is frame off drawings we have not seen or without a permit in place. If you are the general on the job, tell us where you need us in the sequence and we will hold that slot.
My floor feels soft near the wall. Is that framing?
Very often, yes, and on a raised-floor house it is usually the mudsill or the rim joist rather than anything you can see. Subterranean termites and slow leaks both attack the same low, damp timber, and by the time the floor feels different a fair amount of it has gone. We get underneath and look before quoting, because the difference between replacing three feet of sill and replacing a whole run is the difference between a small job and a real one.
Do you do the drywall and the finish after, or only the frame?
All of it, if you want it. The practical value of a Class B license is that the beam, the electrical that has to move out of the wall, the drywall, the texture, the flooring and the paint can all sit under one contract with one person accountable. You can also hire us for the framing alone and take it from there. Tell us which you want and we will scope it that way.

How a framing job runs

Nothing gets covered until it passes

The full process

Schedule of work

Framing · CSLB # 1105333

  1. We open up what we can and look

    Into the attic and under the floor where there is access, so we can see which way the joists run and what the wall you want gone is actually holding. That is what tells us whether this is a header or a full beam with new footings.

  2. You get the beam and the load path in writing

    The engineer's member sizes, the posts, the footings and the shear work, priced as their own lines. On structural work the drawings come first and the number comes off the drawings. Nothing is cut until you have signed.

  3. Shore, cut, frame, inspect

    Temporary support in, old framing out, new framing set to the plan, and then we stop and wait for the inspector. The site gets swept at the close of every day, because you are still living here.

If we find something

Opening a wall sometimes turns up rot, old wiring, or a leak nobody knew about. When that happens the work stops and you get a written change order with the new scope and the new number. Nothing further is built until you sign it. You will never learn about an extra cost from the invoice.

Permits are pulled in the licensed name, CSLB # 1105333, and we meet the inspector. That is our job, not yours.

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Licensed and bonded, and you can verify both

  • Class B General Building ContractorActive
    Number
    1105333
    Issued by
    Contractors State License Board
    Expires
    Verify on Contractors State License Board
  • Contractor's bond
    Number
    $25,000
    Issued by
    Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America

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