General Contractor in Westlake Village, California

Start with the paper: an active CSLB license, current insurance, and finished projects in the Westlake communities you can go look at. Master Construction is family owned, based in Ventura since 1994, licensed (Lic. #1027281) and insured, with an office and showroom at 1450 E. Thompson Blvd and crews working in English and Spanish. Our Westlake work runs from lakeside remodels to HOA maintenance on both sides of the county line, and it has for over 30 years. Any contractor who hesitates on those questions has answered them.

Finish level drives it more than square footage here. Bookmatched stone, custom cabinetry and specialty glazing carry long lead times and no tolerance for framing that is out of plane, so the substrate work behind them has to be right before anything expensive arrives. Protecting an occupied, finished home is part of the scope too, and we price it that way. We walk the house first, then price a fixed scope with the likely unknowns in writing rather than letting them arrive as change orders.

Plan on six to ten weeks on site for a kitchen or bath once approvals are in hand. The approvals are the variable. County plan check runs through EPIC-LA on its own timeline, and HOA architectural committees here meet on fixed monthly calendars, so a missed submittal deadline costs four weeks by itself. We run both tracks in parallel and map the full schedule, submittal to final inspection, before you commit to a start date.

For most remodel work, yes, and it does not go through City Hall. Westlake Village contracts building and safety to the County of Los Angeles, so applications run through the county's EPIC-LA portal, which replaced the old BSOP system in April 2024. The county office serving the city is in Calabasas, though most business happens online and plan check engineers take virtual appointments. Jurisdiction, software and fee schedule all differ from a Ventura County job. County questions go to (818) 880-4150. We handle the submittal and the correction cycle.

It depends on the meeting calendar more than the project. Committees that meet monthly turn a missed deadline into a four-week delay regardless of how simple the request is. We build the submittal around that calendar rather than around when drawings happen to be finished.

Often, yes. Work near the water can involve association rules over and above the standard architectural review, particularly anything affecting shoreline, docks or drainage. Confirming what applies to a specific property early avoids designing something that was never going to be approved.

Yes, 24 hours a day on (805) 414-0840. Crews dispatch from our Ventura office, and Westlake Village is at the far end of our service area, so we give you a straight arrival window when you call rather than a promise we cannot keep. Mitigation starts the day you call, and the rebuild runs under the same license, one contractor from dry-out to finished walls. Details on the Westlake Village water damage restoration page.

Constantly. HOA maintenance in the Westlake communities has been part of our work here for over 30 years, alongside tenant turnovers, common area repairs and board-approved capital projects. Boards and managers get certificates of insurance, written scopes a reserve study can use, and one point of contact instead of five vendors. We also know the architectural committees, which shortens the approval conversation. Start at HOA and property maintenance.