Decks, pergolas, patio covers, outdoor kitchens, fire pits, the structural outdoor work a landscape contractor can't self-perform, designed, permitted and built by one licensed team.
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Rated 5.0 · 256 reviews · CSLB #1012789
Plenty of backyard projects stall at the same point: the landscaper can grade and plant, but a deck, a patio cover, a retaining wall or a gas line to the fire pit is building work their license doesn't cover. Ours does. Bay Builders holds a B-class general building license, the same one behind our whole-home remodels and custom homes.
That changes what a backyard can be. An outdoor kitchen gets real cabinet and counter decisions, handled the way we run an indoor kitchen remodel: no showroom, we shop materials with you. And if the plan grows a roof and walls, a sunroom, or an ADU over a new garage, that becomes a room addition, which we also permit and build.
A backyard with real structure in it is a construction project that happens to be outside. Split it between a landscape crew and a builder and you end up coordinating two bids, two schedules and two crews yourself.
Design, engineering, permit and build all run through one company. The crew setting your deck footings answers to the same project manager as the electrician wiring the island.
A patio cover is a structure, so we treat it like one: engineered, permitted and inspected to the same code as the home, and designed to read as part of the architecture, not an accessory bolted on behind it.
We build outdoor rooms that work like indoor ones: solid underfoot, lit, plumbed, and still standing long after the planting grows in.
Call to set up a complimentary on-site consultation. A project manager walks the property with you and covers what's possible, what it costs, and what your city requires.
You get a formal written proposal with cost and timeline. The contract price holds unless you change the scope or the build uncovers a hidden condition.
We complete the permit application and pull the permit, then a dedicated project manager runs the build and keeps you updated as it goes. A workmanship warranty stands behind the finished work.
A few of the outdoor spaces we've built, and one we rendered. More in the project gallery.
The interactive walkthrough finishes where the good evenings do: gliding across the backyard, past the pool, into the cabana. Take the tour, then picture the same thing behind your own house.
We won't paraphrase clients for you. The reviews on Google, Yelp, Houzz and Nextdoor are public, in their own words, and worth ten minutes before you hire anyone, including us.
Best of Houzz, 2026. When you're done reading, meet the people behind the reviews.
Ofir and Gilad founded Bay Builders in 2015. Eleven years on, the operation still runs out of 800 Charcot Ave in San Jose, stop by if you'd rather talk across a table than a phone line.
Every build gets a dedicated project manager, and the owner's name keeps turning up in the reviews for a reason. The yards on this page all started as a walk around someone's lawn.
A landscape license doesn't cover structural building work. Decks, patio covers, retaining walls, and outdoor plumbing or electrical are jobs a landscape contractor can't self-perform. Bay Builders holds a B-class general building license (CSLB #1012789), so the structure, the trades and the permit all run through one company.
Yes. The on-site consultation covers what your city requires, and when a permit is needed we complete the application and pull it for you, the same way we do on our remodels and additions.
Yes, that's the point of hiring a general building contractor. Our license covers the plumbing and electrical: a hard gas line for the grill, water and a drain for the sink, outlets and lighting in the island. Materials work like our indoor kitchen remodels, no showroom, we shop counters and cabinetry with you.
That depends on scope and on how fast your city moves the permit, so we won't invent a number. You get a written proposal with price and estimated timeline before anything starts, then regular updates from your project manager once it does.
No, lawns, planting and irrigation are landscape work, and that isn't our trade, the same way structure isn't a landscaper's. We build the hardscape, roofs, walls and utilities; your landscaper gets a finished canvas to plant around.
More answers on the FAQs page.
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Rated 5.0 · 256 reviews · CSLB #1012789
