Pool & Spa Remodeling in Westwood

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 Westwood, its flat southern blocks included, lies inside the city's Hillside Grading Area, so excavating for a permitted pool here also requires a separate LADBS grading permit. The community sits outside the city's mapped Hillside Area, the zone where Baseline Hillside Ordinance limits apply. Specific plans that require Design Review Board approval cover most of Westwood's multifamily and commercial areas, including Westwood Village and North Westwood Village, while its single-family blocks generally fall outside them. We prepare the drawings, make the submittal and handle plan-check corrections ourselves, so you are not the one chasing plan check.

The largest lots sit in the Minimum Residential area east of Beverly Glen Boulevard and north of Holmby Park. Generally smaller home sites on undulating ground lie east and west of the UCLA campus and south of Wilshire Boulevard. High-rise condominium towers line Wilshire between the Los Angeles Country Club and Malcolm Avenue, with single-family streets extending north and south of that corridor. One local condition that shapes the work: Terrain runs from flat land in the southern section to rolling hillside in the north, so the grading and drainage approach for a pool near Santa Monica Boulevard can differ markedly from one on a sloping lot closer to Sunset Boulevard.

All of it, including Holmby Hills, Holmby Westwood, Westwood Hills and Comstock Hills. 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.