Construction & Remodeling in San Diego County

All of San Diego County. We are based in San Diego and work throughout the county.

General construction and plumbing usually start with a site visit. Electrical and HVAC are usually estimated by phone.

Yes. All four trades are handled in house, and each of the four owners leads their own trade, so a project that crosses more than one trade stays with one team.

Emergency and after-hours calls taken after 5pm and on weekends. Regular hours are Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm.

Yes. MKA Services Inc dba American Construction holds CSLB license #1028305, issued in June 2017, with classifications B, C-36, C-10 and C-20. B is the general building classification. You can read the record on the CSLB website: check license #1028305.

It typically involves all four. An accessory dwelling unit or a garage conversion needs its own supply and waste, its own circuits and a way of conditioning a space that was not conditioned before, on top of the construction work itself. All four trades are in house, so it stays with one company, and general construction usually starts with a site visit.

Often yes, and it depends less on the size of the job than on which rooms it takes out of service. A bathroom remodel in a house with a second bathroom is a different question from the only bathroom, and a kitchen means no kitchen while the work runs. Structural work, or anything that interrupts water or power to the whole house, is the harder case.

It depends on whether the wall carries load. A non-structural partition comes out straightforwardly. A load-bearing wall can still come out, but the load has to be picked up by something else, usually a beam with posts carrying down to a proper bearing point, which makes it a structural modification rather than demolition. Structural modifications and open-concept conversions are on our construction list, and which of the two a particular wall is, is a site visit question.

An accessory dwelling unit is the result, and a garage conversion is one way of getting there. A conversion reuses a structure that is already standing, so the shell exists and the work is about making it habitable and giving it its own services. A new-build ADU starts from nothing. Both are on our construction list.

Mostly decisions and availability rather than labour. A selection that has not been made is a wall that cannot close, and cabinetry, tile, stone and fixtures are ordered rather than taken off a shelf. The number of trades the work reaches into is the other factor, because those stages run in sequence rather than at once.

Yes, and when the change is made matters more than what the change is. While the walls and ceilings are still open, moving a fixture or a circuit is a change to work that has not happened yet. After close-up, the same change means reopening finished surfaces and redoing what covered them. Rough-in is the stage to speak up.

It is the work that fits an existing commercial space to a particular tenant's use rather than putting the shell up. Partitions, finishes, and the plumbing, electrical and air conditioning the new layout needs. Commercial buildouts and tenant improvements are on our construction list, and all four trades are in house.

Ask which trades the job reaches into before you ask what it will look like. A kitchen remodel and a bathroom remodel both cross plumbing, electrical and construction, so the useful follow-up is whether those trades are in house. All four are in house here, and general construction usually starts with a site visit, whether that is kitchen remodeling in Carlsbad or bathroom remodeling in La Mesa.

Yes to both. Accessory dwelling units, garage conversions and extensions are all on our construction list. Either route needs its own supply and waste, its own circuits and a way of conditioning a space that was not conditioned before, and all four trades are in house. That holds for ADU construction in Santee and for garage conversions in El Cajon.

The structure and the footprint. A remodel reworks space that already exists, while an addition creates space, so framing and structural reinforcements come first and every other trade follows the new footprint rather than the old one. Whole-home renovations and additions are on our construction list, and general construction usually starts with a site visit.