Your walls exist before we break ground

Before you pay us anything we find out what your lot will take. The part almost nobody checks first is whether a flatbed can get in and where we can stack panels, and roughly one lot in seven fails on access alone.

• Parcel, zoning and your city's ADU ordinance
• Truck access and a staging spot for the panel stacks
• Sewer lateral, water meter and electrical panel capacity
• Soils screening, drainage and protected trees
• What fits, and what it costs on your lot specifically

We start with what you want the house to be, then work out how to build it in components. You are not designing around a box, because there is no box.

• Start from one of 200+ library plans, or from your own drawings
• Your architect stays on the job if you have one
• Every change priced before you commit to it, not after
• Site plan drawn on your actual parcel
• Fixed price and a fixed completion date in the agreement

The components are approved by the state and your lot is approved by your city, at the same time. On a complete ADU application the city owes you a decision in 60 days. Some miss it, and we write that letter.

• HCD component approval and insignia, third-party shop inspection
• City review of foundation, siting, drainage and utilities
• Title 24 energy compliance and CalGreen
• School fees, will-serve letters, encroachment permit
• Neighbor notice where your city still requires it

Your panels get cut from the model and assembled on jigs while a crew pours and trenches on your lot. Two tracks, one schedule, and that overlap is most of the reason this finishes so far ahead of the same ADU built on site.

• Cut from the model, so what is drawn is what is built
• Third-party inspector signs off before a panel is closed
• Demolition, engineered foundation and utility stub-ups in parallel
• Panel upgrade if the load calculation calls for one
• Photo set every Friday, and you are welcome to walk the shop floor

Panels come off an ordinary flatbed in the order they go up, and a small crew stands them, bolts them down and dries the building in. A week from bare slab to weathertight, with no crane and nothing closing your street.

• Standard flatbed delivery, panels stacked in erection order
• Four to six people and a telehandler, not a crane crew
• Bolted and strapped to the foundation, inspected as it goes
• Dried in and weathertight inside the week

Rough mechanical, electrical and plumbing, then insulation, drywall, cabinets, tile, floors and paint. This is the longest stretch on your lot and the reason you can still make decisions in month five.

• MEP rough, insulation, drywall and finish carpentry
• Cabinets, tile, floors and paint, all specified in design
• Blower door test and commissioning, report handed to you
• Internal punch, then two owner walks
• City final, as-builts, digital home manual, warranty start