General Contractor in Camarillo, California

The honest test is verifiable: an active CSLB license, current insurance, and local projects with addresses attached. Master Construction is family owned and has served Camarillo since 1994 from our Ventura office and showroom at 1450 E. Thompson Blvd, fifteen minutes up the 101. We are licensed (Lic. #1027281) and insured, work in English and Spanish, and our Camarillo record runs from Mission Oaks kitchen remodels to full maintenance programs for the city's planned communities. Run those checks on anyone you interview, including us.

Scope and the age of the tract decide most of it. Camarillo's 1970s and 1980s homes tend to hide the same three things: original galvanized or early plastic supply lines, electrical panels with no spare capacity, and attic insulation that quit decades ago. On hillside parcels, grading adds soils and geology reports to the budget before construction even starts. We walk the house, price a fixed scope, and raise the likely finds up front as line items rather than mid-job surprises.

Six to ten weeks on site is the normal run for a kitchen or bath once permits are issued. The front end is where Camarillo timelines stretch: digital plan check through the city's OpenGov portal, HOA architectural review in the planned communities, and on hillside parcels the soils and geology work that has to finish before grading plans are approved. We build the schedule from submittal to final inspection before we give you a start date.

For most remodel work, yes, and the process is now fully digital. Camarillo stopped accepting paper plans on 1 July 2025; applications, fee payment and status checks all run through the city's OpenGov permitting portal. Anything involving grading needs more than drawings: soils engineering and engineering geology reports alongside plans signed by a licensed professional. We handle the submittal and the correction cycle. Direct questions go to Camarillo Building & Safety on (805) 388-5395, Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm.

Only if it is left until late. Architectural committees often meet monthly, so a submittal that misses a meeting costs weeks that have nothing to do with construction. We prepare the HOA package alongside the city plan check submittal so both clocks run at the same time.

In most Camarillo homes of this era, yes. Original panels were sized for a house without induction cooking, a heat pump, a second oven or an EV charger. Doing the upgrade while walls are already open costs a fraction of coming back for it later, and it removes the ceiling on what you can add afterward.

Yes. The 24/7 emergency line is (805) 414-0840, and crews dispatch from our Ventura headquarters, fifteen minutes up the 101 from most of Camarillo. Mitigation starts the day you call, because water moves through drywall and insulation fast in a closed-up tract home, and the rebuild runs under the same license instead of a handoff between companies. Details on the Camarillo water damage restoration page.

Yes, across Camarillo's planned communities, where we run full HOA maintenance programs as well as one-off projects. Property managers use us for tenant turnovers and common area repairs; boards bring us board-approved capital work with certificates of insurance and written scopes a reserve study can use. One point of contact runs all of it. Start at HOA and property maintenance.