Learn who to trust for home construction projects involving mechanical, electrical, plumbing, or structural alterations when plan reviews/building permits ARE required.

Choose a General Contractor for Permitted Construction Work

If your home repair, renovation, or remodeling project involves any type of mechanical, electrical, plumbing, or structural alterations, then plan reviews and building permits will be required. Whenever you are uncertain if your California residential construction project will need a permit, check here with the CSLB. 

The acquisition of a permit will increase the total cost of your project and will add to the total project timeline. The dollar amounts and timetable for the plan review and permit procurement varies according to your local jurisdiction, but an experienced general contractor can advise you on what to expect and how best to budget and plan for your particular construction project. Anything involving structural changes will require an engineering review – and this adds to the time it takes to acquire a building permit. The exact amount of time can vary widely depending on the project size, complexity, and the respective workload of your local building department.

Ed Neir at Ed Neir Construction is a general contractor with a current and active B license who provides all the necessary construction services, including: drafting, architectural, structural engineering, and design. As a general contractor, Ed can pull the building permit and manage all the details of your particular construction project. Additionally, Ed and his team will have all the requisite skills, building code knowledge, and project management expertise to competently complete the work in a timely manner, ensuring both reliability and craftsmanship excellence.

Contractors who are appropriately and actively licensed are competent professionals. They must have had 4 years of qualifying experience (journey-level, foreman, supervisor, or contractor) within the past 10 years, and pass a two-part exam through the California Contractors State Licensing Board. Typically, they are not only responsible for their own work on any project, but also oversee any and all subcontractors and their own construction crew of employees. 

Legally, all construction employees should be covered by the general contractor’s workers compensation insurance. This provides both you, as the homeowner, as well as the construction company employee, with the proper legal safeguards and needed remedies.

A general contractor is responsible and accountable for his employees as well as any licensed subcontractor who is brought in to complete any part of the work on a given remodel project or any other home construction. Ed Neir Construction provides you with a licensed general contractor and expert project manager as well as a highly-skilled and fully accountable owner and professional construction crew. Ed will work directly with you – from start to finish – to meet your discriminating needs and to ensure that the vision you have for your home becomes a beautiful reality. 

Unfortunately, as discussed in a previous blog, unsuspecting homeowners have inadvertently hired imposters who often lack the requisite construction training, proficiency, license, bond, and insurance. These imposters can pose tremendous problems by failing to use proper construction techniques, and by failing to employ and insure construction professionals on their work crews. Whenever a construction crew is working in your home, they must be covered by workers compensation insurance to ensure the necessary legal protections and safeguards. 

This blog is part 5 of an important 10 part series that encourages homeowners to “Beware of Imposters.” This special blog series is focused on helping California homeowners identify and avoid unlicensed contractors, who we refer to as “imposters.” 

Without competent professionals at the helm of a construction project, homeowners can be left high and dry, without any legal remedy to ensuing problems, and unable to collect any monies paid out in advance should the project not achieve completion. For a free estimate on your next home construction project, call Ed Neir Construction – respected and actively licensed general contractor (license #: 928715) – at (707) 999-5878 or send text to (408) 368-7162.

Ed Neir, General Contractor
License #: 928715

Continue Reading Our Series:

Find the Right Contractor for Your Home Remodel (Beware of Imposters Part 1 of 10)

Finding the Right Contractor for Your Home Improvement Project (Beware of Imposters Part 2 of 10)

Helping Homeowners to Find the Right Contractor (Beware of Imposters Part 3 of 10)

Finding the Right Contractor for Your Home Construction Project (Part 4 of 10)