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Yes. Richard General Contracting holds California license #1113307, and we are bonded and insured. You can look the license up yourself on the CSLB website in about thirty seconds, and we would rather you did. Ask for certificates and we send them the same day, before you sign anything.

Luke and our crew. He is a Journeyman Carpenter out of Local 619 and a Fabrication Technician out of Local 47, and he is on the job in the field every day it is running. The person who walks your property and writes your price is on site with the crew that builds it.

We do. Structural work, ADUs, additions, most patio covers over a certain size, and anything touching a load-bearing wall all need permits in San Diego County, and the city or county will find out eventually if they were skipped. We handle drawings, submittal, and every inspection. You do not stand in a permit line.

Plan on roughly six to nine months start to finish, and most of the front half is paperwork rather than construction. Design and engineering run one to two months, jurisdiction plan check another two to four depending on the city, then twelve to twenty weeks of build. We tell you where you actually are in that line, in writing.

Once permits are in hand and materials are on site, most freestanding pavilions and attached patio covers run two to four weeks. Footings and concrete need their cure time and we do not shortcut that. If your project needs electrical, lighting, or a built-in barbecue, add about a week.

California caps the deposit on a residential job at ten percent of the contract or one thousand dollars, whichever is less, and we follow that. Everything after runs on a written progress schedule tied to real milestones, so you are paying for work that already exists. No large up-front draw, and no request for money that is not on the schedule you signed.

The price you sign is the price, and it is written down with the scope beside it. It moves for exactly two reasons: you ask for something different, or we open a wall and find something nobody could have seen, which on older North County homes usually means dry rot, termite damage, or wiring that was never permitted. Either way you get the number in writing and approve it before any work happens.

We stop, photograph it, show you, and price the repair before we go further. Coastal homes from Oceanside down to Del Mar take a beating from salt air and irrigation overspray, so this is common enough that we plan for it. It gets repaired and documented before any new finish work goes over it.

Every day, not just at the end. It is the thing customers mention most in our reviews. Your driveway, your yard, and your street get swept before we leave, and the job site gets left in a state you would not mind your neighbors seeing.

Call or text the same number you used the first time. Luke answers it, and he knows where your job stands because he was on it that morning. If you text on a workday you will usually hear back before the end of it.

Yes. California gives you a one-year statutory warranty on workmanship, and structural coverage runs far longer than that. Manufacturer warranties on windows, doors, and roofing pass straight through to you with the paperwork. If something we built fails, call and we come back.

Vista is home base, and we work across North San Diego County every week: Oceanside, Carlsbad, Encinitas, San Marcos, Escondido, Rancho Bernardo, Poway, Del Mar, Rancho Santa Fe, Fallbrook, and down into San Diego proper. We have built as far out as Temecula and Julian. Call and ask about your address.