General Contractor in West Lake Hills, TX

Permits and jurisdiction in West Lake Hills

West Lake Hills is its own incorporated city with its own building department, separate from the City of Austin even though it is surrounded by it. An address here does not go through Austin's process, and the front end of the project is typically longer than an equivalent Austin job. Plan the schedule around that rather than against it.

Building stock in West Lake Hills

Steep lots, heavy tree cover, and high-value homes spanning the 1970s to the present. On a site like this the cost drivers are rarely the finishes. They are access, excavation, retaining structure and tree protection, and they get decided long before anyone picks a countertop.

We scope West Lake Hills projects with the site first. How a crane or a concrete truck reaches the house, where material gets staged on a slope, and what has to be protected to stay compliant all change the number more than the scope of work inside the walls does.

Most of our work here is whole-home renovation and addition on homes that have good structure and dated systems, where the owner wants to keep the house and the lot rather than move.

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