Pool & Spa Remodeling in Sunland-Tujunga

Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety (LADBS). Private pools in the City of Los Angeles are permitted through a Combined Building-Mechanical permit, while pools serving more than two dwelling units need separate building, electrical, plumbing and mechanical permits. Using a City of Los Angeles standard plan on file with LADBS reduces plan check time. Nearly all of Sunland-Tujunga, its flat center included, lies inside the City's mapped Hillside Grading Area, so a pool here also needs its own LADBS grading permit. Much of the foothill ground on both sides of the valley falls inside the San Gabriel/Verdugo Mountains Scenic Preservation Specific Plan (Ordinance No. 175,736), where LADBS may not issue a building or grading permit for a Project, a term that includes any grading that needs a grading permit, until City Planning grants Project Permit Compliance. A single-family home on an existing site under 20,000 square feet, outside a Prominent Ridgeline Protection Area and any Equinekeeping District, falls outside the plan's definition of a Project, so it skips that review but must still meet the plan's ridgeline-silhouette rule where it applies and its prohibited-plant list. On plan-area lots of 20,000 square feet or more, a coast live oak or valley oak of eight inches or more, measured 4.5 feet above the ground, cannot be removed, cut down or moved without prior written approval from City Planning, and palms, Italian cypress, blue gum eucalyptus, California and Brazilian pepper trees, fountain grass and pampas grass are among the plants prohibited in new Projects. We prepare the drawings, make the submittal and handle plan-check corrections ourselves, so you are not the one chasing plan check.

Mostly low-density single-family. Postwar tracts on the gently sloping ground at the foot of the San Gabriels hold modest parcels, about 0.15 acre on Amanita Avenue and about 0.20 acre around Marnice Avenue, while the hillside Haines Canyon tract has irregular lots of roughly 0.4 to 0.85 acre set into the slope. Inside the Specific Plan, 20,000 square feet, about 0.46 acre, is where the oak rule begins and the single-family exemption ends, so lot size shapes a project as much as grade does. One local condition that shapes the work: The generally flat center gives way to San Gabriel and Verdugo foothill slopes, where homes such as those on Haines Canyon Avenue sit into the hillside above masonry retaining walls and stone or brick stairs, so structure and drainage lead the build.

All of it, including Sunland, Tujunga, Old Tujunga and Haines Canyon. Our crews run every job out of our Cahuenga Pass base in Los Angeles, with our own people on site.

New pool construction: generally $70,000 to $150,000+ across Southern California. What moves it is size and shape, spa, water and fire features, decking material, automation, and how much access and grading the site needs. We give line-item pricing after seeing the site rather than quoting a number over the phone.

A straightforward replaster with new tile and coping usually runs three to five weeks. A full remodel that includes new decking, equipment and features typically runs eight to twelve weeks. Site access and permit timing are the two things that move that most.

Most new pool builds run about three to five months from permit to first swim. Hillside sites that need engineered retaining or difficult access sit at the longer end of that range.

If the shell and plumbing are sound and you only dislike the surface, replastering with new tile and coping is the efficient choice. If the equipment is aging, the deck is cracked or the shape no longer suits how you use the yard, a full remodel costs less than doing it in two separate phases.

Yes. Our own crews handle the build rather than passing it to a rotating set of subs, which is why the schedule and the finish standard stay consistent.