Poway General Contractor
Design-Build Remodels, ADUs & Home Renovations Since 2008

We handle four main project types in Poway. Each has its own dedicated page with costs, timelines, and project examples specific to your neighborhood:

• ADU Construction in Poway — Poway is one of the better ADU cities in North County, and it comes down to lot size. The median Poway home was built in 1978, and roughly a third of the housing stock went up during the 1970s — the era of big lots, single-story ranch layouts, and detached garages set well back from the street. That is close to ideal for an accessory dwelling unit. The older east-side lots off Espola and out toward Bridlewood sometimes run on septic, and a new ADU means either a septic capacity evaluation or a sewer connection. Neither is a dealbreaker, but you want to know before you draw plans, not after. Second, much of eastern Poway sits in a very high fire hazard severity zone, which brings brush management requirements and Chapter 7A ignition-resistant construction into play. That affects siding, eaves, vents, and windows — real money, and worth pricing correctly the first time. Poway takes applications through the online portal at services.poway.org. Plan check to permit typically runs four to six months if corrections come back quickly. We handle that back-and-forth so you are not the one chasing plan check comments.

• Kitchen Remodels in Poway — A 1978 Poway kitchen is a specific animal. Soffits over the uppers, a wall between the kitchen and the family room, a peninsula where an island should be, and a window over the sink that looks out at a fence six feet away. The bones are usually good. The layout is what is holding it back. Most of what we do in Poway kitchens is take out that wall, deal with whatever is in it, and open the room to the back yard — which in Poway is usually worth looking at. We check the framing before we promise anything. Some of those 70s ranch homes have a bearing wall exactly where you want the opening, and that means a beam and a permit, not a sledgehammer.

• Full Home Renovations in Poway People do not leave Poway. They buy in Green Valley or Old Poway or Garden Road, put kids through Poway Unified, and stay. Which means the house eventually has to grow up with the family instead of getting traded in. A full renovation on a Poway ranch home usually means the same short list: open the kitchen to the family room, add a primary suite or rebuild the one you have, upgrade a panel that was sized for a 1978 electrical load, and re-pipe if it is still galvanized. Sometimes an addition, sometimes a second story — though in the older neighborhoods you want to check the setbacks and height limits before you fall in love with a second story.

• Commercial Tenant Improvements in Poway  — The South Poway Business Park is one of the more active commercial corridors in inland San Diego County — Scripps Poway Parkway, the Poway Corporate Center, the industrial and flex space running east from I-15. Manufacturers, labs, defense contractors, medical offices. We do tenant improvements in that kind of space: demo, new walls and drop ceiling, HVAC ducting and distribution, electrical, flooring, casework, and finish. The part that actually determines whether a TI goes well is scheduling around the landlord, the other tenants, and your own operations. We have done enough of them to know that the construction is the easy half.