Houses from the late 1940s through the 1960s here tend to have small, separate rooms, low-slope or flat roofs on some streets, and original radiant heating or a single wall furnace. The structure is usually sound; the plan is the problem.
The remodels that make sense are the ones that decide where the work actually happens — a real office with a door, a kitchen that can take three people at once, and a bathroom count that matches how many people now live there.
這一帶 1940 年代末到 1960 年代蓋的房子，房間多半小而獨立，部分街區是低坡度或平屋頂，暖氣還是原本的輻射式或單一壁爐式。結構通常沒問題，問題在平面。
值得做的翻新，是先想清楚「工作到底在哪裡發生」—— 一間有門的真正書房、一個能同時擠三個人的廚房、以及符合現在住多少人數的衛浴間數。
What the work usually includes
Wall removal with structural review, a re-planned kitchen and bathrooms, a dedicated office with proper ventilation and circuits, full electrical rewire and panel upgrade, new plumbing, insulation and glazing to fix the heat gain on west-facing rooms, and flooring and trim throughout.
工程通常包含
經結構確認後拆牆、重新規劃廚房與衛浴、有獨立迴路與通風的書房、全屋換線與配電盤升級、新配管、隔熱與玻璃改善西曬房間的熱負荷，以及全室地板與收邊。
What drives the cost
Rewiring an entire 1,300 sq ft house is the line people underestimate — knob-and-tube or two-wire circuits without ground mean every room is affected. Roof type matters too: a low-slope roof changes how ventilation and skylights are handled.
費用由什麼決定
全屋換線是最常被低估的一項 —— 舊式無接地兩線迴路意味著每個房間都要動。屋頂形式也有影響：低坡度屋頂會改變通風與天窗的做法。
How long it takes
4–6 months on site for a full renovation, with 4–8 weeks of design and Mountain View plan review ahead of it. If the family stays, we phase by wing and add roughly 30% to the calendar.
工期
完整翻新現場約 4–6 個月，之前有 4–8 週的設計與 Mountain View 審圖。若住戶不搬，我們分區施工，工期大約多 30%。
Permits in Mountain View
Structural, electrical, plumbing and mechanical work needs a permit from the City of Mountain View. Additions and second storeys also go through planning review, which looks at massing and setbacks — worth knowing before the design is drawn, not after.
Mountain View 的建照
結構、電、水與空調工程需向 Mountain View 市政府申請建照。加建與二樓還要走都市計畫審查（量體與退縮），這要在畫圖前就知道，不是畫完才發現。
Questions we get asked
常見問題
Whole-home work in the Bay Area in 2026 is usually priced per square foot: roughly $150–$250 per sq ft for a cosmetic-to-mid renovation and $250–$400+ per sq ft for a down-to-studs rebuild with new systems. A 1,300 sq ft Mountain View ranch with full systems replacement sits toward the upper end of that.
If the circuits have no ground and the panel is full, doing it room by room costs more in total and leaves you with a house that is half old. We tell you which it is after opening a few boxes, before you commit.
Usually, if there is a drain path. Adding a bathroom on the far side of the house from the stack is where the cost jumps, so we check the plumbing route early.
Realistically, part of the time. We schedule the noisy and dusty phases around a room you can keep, and we tell you at the start which weeks those are.
Yes — San Jose, Santa Clara, Sunnyvale, Cupertino, Campbell, Saratoga, Los Gatos, Milpitas, Palo Alto and Foster City.
