One in-house team carries your home from concept through construction: design, permits, structure, and finish. Start from a bare lot, or rebuild on the foundation you already own.
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Rated 5.0 · 256 reviews · CSLB #1012789
A ground-up custom home: four bedrooms and three and a half baths arranged around a large foyer, a family room, and a great room, with a wine-cellar entry. Every stage ran through one team, from the first drawings to the last coat of paint. See it on our projects page.
If the foundation under your current house is sound, we can take down everything above it and rebuild from there. On paper the project is a remodel, not new construction, a distinction that pays off three ways.
It doesn't cramp the design, either. Our flagship case added 700 square feet to the main floor and another 300 upstairs. And when keeping more of the house makes sense, a whole-home remodel or a room addition may serve you better. We'll say which at the first meeting.
Very few people in the Bay Area ever get to build from scratch, and almost nobody gets a second try. So the builder you choose decides how the story goes. Here's what choosing us gets you.
The contract states the number and the schedule before work begins. It moves only if you change the scope, or a hidden problem like wood rot surfaces.
Our reviews sit on Google, Yelp, and Houzz where anyone can read them. Start there, not with our own marketing.
We bring options to the table. And when one of yours isn't worth the time or money, we say so at the meeting, not on the invoice.
The first questions are about what the house needs to do for your family. What's easiest to build never drives the plan.
Materials specced to hold up for decades, inside the house and in the outdoor spaces around it. A workmanship warranty backs the build.
They had some great ideas and would tell us whether ours were worth it from a timing and money standpoint
The 3 words I use to describe Bay Builders & Remodeling are 'creative, quality, professionalism'
The quality of craftsmanship exhibited by Bay Builders is extremely impressive and was one of the biggest differentiators for us when viewing their past projects compared to other competitors.
A Bay Builders project manager meets you on site to cover what's possible, budget feasibility, and what your city requires. Complimentary, no obligation.
3D renderings within hours, revised without limit, then a formal written proposal with cost and timeline, and a contract price that's fixed.
Permits pulled in-house, then preliminary, structural, and finish phases run by one dedicated PM who updates you nearly every day.
Our reviews are public on Google, Yelp, and Houzz, read them in full there. A few excerpts:
Bay Builders came highly recommended by our agent and turned out to be one of the best teams we have worked with. They have worked on so many large projects, nothing would seem difficult for them to build or implement.
I never expected to see such a high level of perfectionism from contractors.
Very high-quality work and service.
From the ease of scheduling the initial appointment to the final walk through each step of the way exceeded our expectations!!
Rebuilt from the studs
New build · exterior at night
Step inside · entry & stairway
Step inside · San Carlos bedroom
Exteriors tell you half the story. The interiors, and the before shots, are all on the projects page.
A home you build once should be cheap to keep for decades. Tell us early that efficiency matters to you, energy-efficient and eco-friendly choices cost the least when they're designed in before the first drawing is done, and they keep paying you back every month you live there.
And because so much of the Bay Area backs up against wildland, we bring experience in fire-resistant construction to the same conversation. It's a design decision, not an afterthought.
All of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties, plus nearby parts of the East Bay. If your lot is in one of these cities, we'll meet you on it:
Atherton · Belmont · Burlingame · Campbell · Cupertino · Foster City · Fremont · Los Altos · Los Altos Hills · Los Gatos · Menlo Park · Millbrae · Milpitas · Mountain View · Newark · Palo Alto · Portola Valley · Redwood City · San Bruno · San Carlos · San Jose · San Mateo · Santa Clara · Saratoga · Sunnyvale · Woodside
Because the foundation stays. When the existing foundation is sound, we demolish everything above it and rebuild, the city treats the project as a remodel rather than new construction, which means faster approval and lower cost. More answers on our FAQs page.
We do. Bay Builders completes the application and pulls the permit for you.
It depends on the lot, the size of the house, and how quickly your city moves plans through review, so we won't quote a number here. What we will do is put one in writing for your specific build: the formal proposal you receive after the complimentary consultation includes a completion estimate, before you sign anything.
Either. We design in-house as a design-build team, or we collaborate with the architect or designer you've already hired. Both routes come with photorealistic 3D renderings, revised until you approve, and we shop fixtures and materials with you instead of steering you around a showroom.
There's no honest one-line answer: the lot, the square footage, and the materials move the number too much. What we can do is walk your property, tell you what your city will allow, and put a real figure in writing, the complimentary consultation ends in a formal proposal with a cost and a timeline, and the contract price moves only for scope changes you request or hidden problems no one could see.
Everyone who's thinking about building carries the same list around. Bring it to the consultation and leave with answers, and no obligation.
Call to book the site visit, and a project manager meets you at the lot anywhere in Santa Clara or San Mateo County, or nearby in the East Bay.
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Rated 5.0 · 256 reviews · CSLB #1012789
