Kitchen remodeling
Bathroom remodeling
Home additions & ADU
Roofing
Windows & doors
Driveway & pavers
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Fast, Reliable General Contractor Across Lexington Hills
Finding a General Contractor who understands what building on a wooded Santa Cruz Mountains parcel actually involves is the difference between a project that moves on schedule and one that stalls for months. Most of our Lexington Hills work comes to us after a homeowner has spent too long on hold with Santa Clara County, or after a city-based contractor quoted the job without accounting for the fire road. We know this area’s roads, its permit process, its soil, and its fire-code reality. Call (877) 373-9230 and tell us what you’re planning. We’ll tell you straight what it takes.
Why Garden Grove Contractors Is Lexington Hills’s Preferred General Contractor Company
We’ve rebuilt foundations on Black Road parcels where a concrete truck has to wait at the highway turnout. We’ve replaced wood-shake roofs off Bear Creek Road with Class A assemblies that Cal Fire will actually sign off on. We’ve pulled county permits for ADUs on acreage with septic and well setbacks that kill lesser plans. Lexington Hills is not a suburb, and we don’t bid it like one. Noel Cardenas runs our projects directly, and he starts every Lexington Hills estimate by checking the parcel, the road access, and the county’s current plan-review timeline before putting a single number on paper. No city contractor can say that because no city contractor lives this process.
When you call us from Lexington Hills, you get someone who knows that a “simple” kitchen remodel on a 1970s redwood cabin often threads through Chapter 7A siding requirements and defensible-space rules before the first cabinet gets ordered. That local knowledge shows up in your schedule, your scope of work, and your final inspection.
Styles & brands we work with
- Kitchen remodeling
- Bathroom remodeling
- Home additions & ADU
- Roofing
- Windows & doors
- Driveway & pavers
- Fence
Construction Company in Lexington Hills
Construction Company work in Lexington Hills spans far more than framing and finish. A Lexington Hills homeowner typically calls us when a project involves structural work, slope stabilization, outbuildings, or new construction that requires Santa Clara County plan review and Cal Fire sign-off. This is not the tract-home work of San Jose. It is custom mountain construction on parcels with real grades, real drainage, and real fire-code compliance. A home addition here runs $45,000 to $130,000, and a garage conversion typically falls between $30,000 and $80,000 depending on what the existing foundation and access allow.
Hillside Foundations and Outbuildings
Anything built on a Lexington Hills slope needs an engineered foundation, and often a geotech report before that. We handle the full chain: soils review, county submittal, foundation, framing, and the final Cal Fire inspection. Detached shops, garages, and equipment sheds fall under this same scope, and we build them right the first time.
County Permitting and Inspection Flow
Lexington Hills projects are permitted by Santa Clara County, not a city building department. That single fact changes everything. Plan review runs on the county’s calendar, not yours. We build that time into the draw schedule and the contract up front, so you are never surprised by a six-week wait between demo and foundation inspection.
Remodeling Contractor in Lexington Hills
Remodeling Contractor work in Lexington Hills often starts as a kitchen or bath update and grows into something bigger once we open the walls. These mid-century redwood homes have their own character, but they also hide outdated framing, knob-and-tube wiring, and rot behind wood siding that has been fighting mountain moisture for fifty years. A full kitchen remodel here lands between $14,000 and $45,000. A bathroom remodel runs $9,000 to $28,000. Those ranges assume we are working with the existing footprint; if the county requires a Chapter 7A exterior upgrade as part of the seismic or fire review, the scope and price shift accordingly.
Interior Remodels on Mountain Homes
We spec material that holds up to the humidity swings and cold nights of the Santa Cruz Mountains. Cabinet boxes that won’t warp. Countertops sealed for hard water. Ventilation that pulls moisture out of a bathroom before it ever reaches the redwood framing. We handle the permitting, the county inspections, and the finish work under one contract.
Exterior Upgrades Tied to a Remodel
When we replace a roof or siding on a Lexington Hills home, we are almost always doing it because the county or Cal Fire review flagged the existing assembly. GAF-certified roofing, James Hardie siding, and dual-pane windows are the three upgrades we recommend most often. Each one raises the home’s fire survival odds and its resale value. We’ll tell you which one matters most on your particular parcel before we quote you.
Trusted Brands We Service in Lexington Hills
We carry direct access to manufacturers like Therma-Tru for exterior doors that seal against mountain drafts, ViewLux for windows sized for odd redwood-era openings, and Barrette and Master Halco for fencing and gate hardware that survives the wet winters up here. When a Lexington Hills project needs a specific product, we source it directly through our manufacturer partnerships, not through a supply-house third party. That shortens lead times and keeps the chain of responsibility under our roof. If a door arrives damaged from a highway run up Black Road, we handle the replacement, not you.
Common General Contractor Problems We See in Lexington Hills Homes
- Rot and moisture damage behind original wood siding. The Santa Cruz Mountains get real rain from November through March, and homes built in the 1960s and 1970s often have siding that was never flashed or sealed properly. By the time a remodel starts, we are regularly replacing rim joists and window sills.
- Single-lane fire-road access that a delivery truck cannot navigate. A standard 40-foot flatbed cannot turn around on many Black Road and Bear Creek Road driveways. We stage materials at the highway turnout and shuttle them up with compact equipment. It costs more, and any quote that ignores it undercounts the job.
- Non-compliant roofs and siding under current Chapter 7A rules. Cal Fire now requires ignition-resistant assemblies on most re-roofs and re-sides in this area. If your contractor specs standard materials, the county review rejects it and you eat a change order. We spec compliant assemblies from the first draft.
- Septic and well setbacks that block a straightforward addition. County health code controls how close any new structure can sit to your septic field and well. Plenty of nice-looking plans die at that review. We check setbacks before we draw anything.
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Lexington Hills pricing runs anywhere from $8,000 for a roof replacement on a small cabin to $220,000 for a full ADU build. The honest spread below reflects what the county, the fire code, and the terrain impose on this particular mountain market. No two parcels are alike, but these ranges are built from real Lexington Hills projects we have scoped and built.
| Project Type | Typical Lexington Hills Range |
|---|---|
| ADU Construction | $90,000 – $220,000 |
| Home Addition | $45,000 – $130,000 |
| Garage Conversion | $30,000 – $80,000 |
| Roof Replacement | $8,000 – $20,000 |
| Metal Roof Installation | $15,000 – $40,000 |
| Kitchen Remodel | $14,000 – $45,000 |
| Bathroom Remodel | $9,000 – $28,000 |
What pushes a Lexington Hills job to the high end? Steep-slope foundations, Chapter 7A assemblies, staging materials off-site and hauling up a fire road, and county plan-review resubmissions. What keeps it lower? Flat buildable sites near the main road, smaller footprints, and an existing home that is already fire-code compliant. Call (877) 373-9230 and we’ll walk your parcel’s numbers with you. The estimate is free.
We Also Serve Cities Near Lexington Hills
Our service area covers General Contractor in Lexington Hills and the surrounding mountain and foothill communities. We work in Los Gatos, Monte Sereno, Cambrian Park, and Scotts Valley. If your project sits anywhere along Highway 17 or in the hills above those towns, the same county-level permitting and fire-code experience applies.
Serving Lexington Hills, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We serve Lexington Hills and nearby communities. Use the map below to see the area we cover. If you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs About General Contractor in Lexington Hills
Santa Clara County issues all building permits for Lexington Hills because the community is unincorporated. There is no city building department involved. That means plan review, inspections, and final sign-off all run through the county, and Cal Fire reviews most exterior work under Chapter 7A. We submit and track every permit for you, and we schedule inspections only after we have confirmed the county’s current review queue. Call (877) 373-9230 if you want a realistic timeline before you commit to a start date.
Yes, and we already know a standard delivery truck cannot turn around up there. On a steep Black Road parcel we recently rebuilt a detached garage foundation and re-roofed the structure with a Class A assembly, but the private single-lane fire road forced us to stage materials at the highway turnout and shuttle them up in a compact telehandler. Our scope of work and draw schedule had to build in those hauls plus a county inspection sign-off before we could close up the walls. If your road cannot take a full-size truck, we plan for it from the first walkthrough.
Chapter 7A is the Cal Fire building code section that requires ignition-resistant assemblies in high wildfire hazard severity zones, which includes most of Lexington Hills. Practically, that means your roof replacement likely needs a Class A fire-rated assembly, and your siding likely needs a fiber-cement or other noncombustible product like James Hardie. We spec compliant materials in the original quote, so there is no county rejection and no surprise change order. Call (877) 373-9230 and we’ll tell you what your specific parcel requires.
Septic and well setbacks are the number one reason an ADU or addition dies in plan review up here. Santa Clara County health code requires minimum distances between any new structure and both your septic field and your water well, and on a one- or two-acre Lexington Hills lot, those setbacks can eliminate a site entirely. We pull the health department records and mark the setbacks before we draw anything, which saves you the heartbreak of paying for plans that can never be approved.
Because a San Jose contractor is quoting a San Jose job. Up here in Lexington Hills, the county plan-review backlog adds weeks, the fire code adds material costs, the grade adds foundation engineering, and any private fire road adds hauling and equipment access. A flat-lot San Jose addition never sees any of that. Our quote includes the real conditions of your parcel, not a city template. Call (877) 373-9230 and we’ll show you line by line where the money goes.
Contact Garden Grove Contractors in Lexington Hills
If you are planning a remodel, an ADU, or a full property overhaul in Lexington Hills, start with a contractor who has already done the county paperwork, the fire-code spec, and the fire-road haul. We’ll give you a written scope and a real number. Call (877) 373-9230 to schedule your free estimate. Noel Cardenas and our team are ready to walk your property and tell you exactly what it takes.
Written by Noel Cardenas, Owner at Garden Grove Contractors, serving Lexington Hills and the surrounding Santa Cruz Mountains communities.