Are you licensed and insured?

Yes. Fresh Build holds California license #1156332 and carries both general liability and workers' compensation cover. You can verify the license yourself on the CSLB website, and we will send certificates of insurance to you or your HOA on request.

How much do you charge for an estimate?

Nothing. We come out, measure, look at what is actually there and send a written fixed-price quote. There is no fee and no obligation, and the number in that quote is the number you pay unless you change the scope or we find something hidden – in which case we photograph it and price it before touching anything.

How quickly can you start?

Small jobs – a room of painting, a drywall repair – usually within a week. Larger projects like a full interior repaint or a bathroom remodel typically start two to three weeks out. If you have a hard deadline, tell us during the estimate and we will tell you honestly whether we can hit it.

Do you take a deposit?

California law caps a residential contractor's down payment at $1,000 or 10% of the contract price, whichever is less. We do not ask for more than that, and neither should anyone else. Progress payments follow completed phases of work.

Do you handle permits?

Yes, where the work needs them. Cosmetic painting, flooring and like-for-like fence replacement generally do not. Moving plumbing or electrical, structural changes and taller fences usually do. We pull the permit, schedule the inspections and hand you the signed-off paperwork at the end.

What kind of warranty do you offer?

Five years on workmanship across all our trades, on top of whatever the manufacturer warrants on materials – which on roof coatings is 10 years. If something we did fails inside that window, we come back and fix it.

About us

One crew from demolition to the final coat

Plenty of LA contractors win the job and then subcontract the parts that decide how it looks. We run it the other way round: the trades that make or break a kitchen or a bathroom are the ones we do ourselves, on a written fixed price agreed before anything is torn out.

Fresh Build crew at work on a Los Angeles home

Fresh Build exists because of a pattern we kept seeing on other people's jobs: the trades that decide how a room actually looks and feels – tile, paint, plaster, floors – are the ones most often handed to whichever sub was cheapest and available that week.

So we built the company around those trades instead of treating them as an afterthought. Our painters are our painters. Our drywall finishers are ours. A remodel here runs from demolition through the final walkthrough with the same crew, and that single fact removes most of what goes wrong in residential work.

We work across Los Angeles County, Orange County and Thousand Oaks in Ventura County – the San Fernando Valley, the Westside, the San Gabriel Valley, the South Bay and Long Beach, the coast from Seal Beach to Dana Point, and the cities around Irvine and Anaheim, on everything from a single bathroom to a full kitchen. Same standards either way – a small job done properly is how most of our larger jobs started.

CA License #1156332

Five-year workmanship warranty
Calls answered 24/7
Written fixed price before work starts
General liability and workers' compensation insurance
Free written estimate, no fee and no obligation

How we operate

Four things we do not bend on

We quote what the job is, not what you hope it is
If the roof deck is wet or the subfloor is rotten, you hear it on day one with photographs, not in a revised invoice at the end.
Fixed price, in writing, before anything starts
Hourly billing punishes the client for the contractor's inefficiency. Everything we do is priced as a scope, and the price only moves if the scope does.
The deposit stays legal
California caps a residential down payment at $1,000 or 10%, whichever is less. We never ask for more. A contractor asking for half up front is telling you something.
The last 10% gets the same attention as the first
Punch lists are where most jobs quietly fall apart. Ours is written down, walked with you, and signed off before we call anything finished.

By the numbers

Where the confidence comes from

600+: Rooms finished
12: Years on the tools
5.0: From 369 reviews
5-yr: Workmanship warranty

Where we work

40 cities across LA and Orange County, plus Thousand Oaks

These are the cities we work in most, not a hard boundary. If you are nearby, call and ask.

Reviews

What people say afterwards

5.0 from 369 reviews. Not the marketing lines – the things clients actually bring up months later.

Interior Painting
“They spent two full days on prep before a drop of paint went on, which honestly worried me at the time. Then the finish came out flawless and I understood why. Two years on, not one crack has come back through.”
Diana R.Encino
Flat Roof Coating
“Another company quoted me twenty-six thousand for a tear-off. Fresh Build climbed up, showed me photos of a deck that was completely fine, and sealed it for under eight. No leak since, and the back bedroom is noticeably cooler in summer.”
Michael T.Burbank
Bathroom Remodel
“They found rot under the old shower pan on day one, photographed it, priced the repair and asked before doing anything. That is the whole reason I trusted them with the rest of the job.”
Sarah K.Sherman Oaks
Plaster Repair
“The last contractor filled our Craftsman's cracks with joint compound and they were back within a year. Fresh Build re-keyed the plaster to the lath properly. Completely different result.”
James L.Pasadena
Flooring
“They pulled up a corner of the carpet before quoting and found the original oak underneath. Refinishing it cost half what new flooring would have, and they told me that themselves. Who does that?”
Anna M.Culver City
Fence Installation
“Two hundred and twenty feet of cedar, posts set two and a half feet deep in concrete. Three winters later it is still dead straight. The fence it replaced had lasted six years.”
Robert C.Woodland Hills

All reviews

FAQ

Questions we get asked

If yours is not here, call us. We would rather answer it before you book than after.

Yes. Fresh Build holds California license #1156332 and carries both general liability and workers' compensation cover. You can verify the license yourself on the CSLB website, and we will send certificates of insurance to you or your HOA on request.

Free estimate

Tell us what needs doing

Free walkthrough, written fixed price, no follow-up sales calls. Most quotes go out the same day we visit.

(213) 375-0868

Calls answered 24/7
CA License #1156332 – licensed, bonded and insured