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If you own a home in Long Beach, you already know the house has stories the listing photos didn’t tell. We get calls every week from homeowners in Rose Park, Belmont Heights, and the east side who found cracked stucco, a sagging floor, or windows painted shut since the Reagan administration. We answer the phone at (877) 610-1318, we know Long Beach’s housing stock and its permit office, and we’ll give you a straight answer about what you’re looking at. We’re Barrett & Sons Construction, and most days you’ll find Tom or one of his sons on a job site somewhere in the 90808 or 90804 ZIP, not in a call center three states away.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Why Long Beach Homeowners Choose Barrett & Sons Construction
Ask anyone on your street, or look up the license number yourself. Tom Barrett publishes his name, his address, and his license on every estimate we hand out. That’s on purpose. A lot of folks in Long Beach have been burned by a national outfit that quoted one number on the phone and handed over a different bill at the door, and the only thing worse than that surprise is finding out the crew showing up sells windows by the piece and subs the install to whoever answers first. That’s not how we work. The crew members who carry the Barrett & Sons name are background-checked, uniformed, and most of them are Tom’s sons and their teams. We’ve earned our reputation block by block in neighborhoods like Carroll Park and Naples, where one good job leads to two more referrals and one bad job follows you to the grocery store.
Every contract includes our 90-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If something isn’t right, Tom comes back and makes it right. One call. And we answer that call with a live person, 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Construction Services We Offer in Long Beach
Kitchen Remodeling
Kitchen Remodeling in Long Beach takes a particular kind of patience, because most of the homes we open up in 90803 and 90808 were framed before anyone thought to leave space for a dishwasher, let alone an island. We install KraftMaid and Cambria because those are names you can look up, and we pull permits on every kitchen where we move a wall, a line, or a load-bearing post. The allowance that isn’t on paper is a surprise waiting for a date, so ours is on paper from the first estimate.
Learn more about our Kitchen Remodeling in Long Beach.
Bathroom Remodeling
Older Bathroom Remodeling - Long Beach projects hide things behind the tile, especially in 1920s bungalows where the original cast iron stack is still doing the job at ninety years old. We open walls carefully, quote honestly, and we don’t pretend a cosmetic refresh will fix a failing drain line. Permits get pulled on every eligible bath, and the inspector signs off before we call it done.
Learn more about our Bathroom Remodeling in Long Beach.
Roofing
Long Beach Roofing faces a marine layer that keeps moisture in the air even in August, and that humidity creeps under old shingles and into the decking faster than you’d think. We carry GAF and CertainTeed on every roof, and we re-nail, re-flash, and re-deck wherever the structure demands it, not just where the shingles look bad from the curb. A roof over 90805 should outlive the mortgage, and we build it that way.
Learn more about our Roofing in Long Beach.
Windows & Doors
The original wood sash Windows & Doors in Long Beach bungalows are charming and drafty in equal measure. We install Andersen and Marvin when you want the upgrade done once, and we replace the flashing and the sill, not just the glass, because the window is only as good as the opening around it. We measure, order, and install with the same crew.
Fence Installation
Coastal salt air eats fasteners and rots posts at ground level in Long Beach faster than most people expect. We set fence posts in concrete below the root line, use hardware rated for coastal exposure, and build fences that stay plumb when the Santa Ana winds kick up off Signal Hill. Board-on-board, horizontal, vinyl, or a gate that actually latches, we frame it right.
Driveway & Pavers
A paver driveway in Long Beach sits on shifting clay soil, and if the base isn’t done right, you’ll see it in two winters. We compact properly, slope for drainage, and lay Belgard and Techo-Bloc pavers on a base that holds. Whether it’s a walkway in Bixby Knolls or a full driveway replacement in 90810, the base is the job.
Home Additions & ADU
Long Beach has a real appetite for ADUs, and the city has rules that change by zone and by lot. We handle the design, the plans, the permits, and the inspections, and we never let you find out at final walkthrough that something wasn’t signed off. In harbor-adjacent parcels, that can include a geotechnical report, and we know how to handle it.
Neighborhoods We Serve in Long Beach
We work throughout Long Beach, and we know the difference between a Rose Park Craftsman foundation and a 1950s east side slab. A few of the neighborhoods where you’ll see our trucks most often:
- Belmont Heights (90803)
- Rose Park (90804)
- Carroll Park (90804)
- Naples (90803)
- El Dorado Park (90815)
Typical response time for a Long Beach estimate is two to three business days, and we’ll give you a written scope, not a handshake and a shrug.
Why Long Beach’s Climate & Housing Affect Construction
Long Beach has building problems that Lakewood and Torrance simply don’t. Start with the 1933 earthquake, a 6.4 magnitude event that leveled much of downtown and forced California’s first mandatory seismic building codes. The housing stock that rose in the years after is now eighty or ninety years old, and a lot of it sits on original unreinforced concrete or cripple-wall foundations. We see the results in 90804 and 90805, where soft-story wood-frame apartment buildings had to be retrofitted under the city’s mandatory ordinance, and in the historic districts, where a foundation inspection is the first thing we recommend before anyone starts dreaming about a kitchen island.
Then there’s the ground itself. The Wilmington Oil Field subsidence event sank harbor-area land up to 29 feet in places, the largest documented urban subsidence in U.S. history. That legacy shows up today as differential settlement and slab heave in the port-adjacent ZIP codes, and it’s why a simple addition or ADU in 90810 can trigger a geotechnical soils report as a standard permit condition, something an identical project in Lakewood would never face. The marine layer doesn’t do anyone any favors either. Persistent coastal humidity accelerates wood rot and fastener corrosion, and the flat, low-lying clay soils near the port move seasonally with moisture. A contractor who doesn’t know these things will give you a bid that looks cheap and a project that costs double. We’ve been on the side of the house that faces the ocean, and we bid for what’s actually under the surface.
Pricing for Construction in Long Beach
Honest pricing starts with a written scope, and our written change orders mean the number we quote is the number you approve before any change happens. Here’s what typical Long Beach projects run:
- Kitchen remodel: $35,000-$75,000 depending on cabinet line, layout changes, and plumbing moves
- Bathroom remodel: $18,000-$42,000 depending on tile scope and whether the drain stack needs replacing
- Roof replacement: $12,000-$28,000 depending on square footage, pitch, and decking repair
- Window replacement (whole house): $9,000-$24,000 depending on count, material, and trim condition
- ADU (attached or detached): $180,000-$350,000 depending on size, foundation needs, and site conditions
We offer $40 off any repair over $200, a free second opinion on any written estimate, no trip charge inside the county, and a permanent 10% senior and veteran discount. Call (877) 610-1318 and we’ll put a number in front of you.
Service Area - Cities Near Long Beach
Long Beach is home base for our crews, but we also take on projects in the communities around us. If you’re in Signal Hill, Lakewood, Carson, or Compton, give us a call and we’ll let you know how soon we can get out there.
Serving Long Beach, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Long Beach area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs About Construction in Long Beach
Most Long Beach kitchen remodels run between $35,000 and $75,000, with the final number depending on whether you’re keeping the existing layout or moving plumbing and walls in an older home where surprises hide behind the drywall. Call (877) 610-1318 for an exact quote, estimates are free.
Yes, and in harbor-adjacent ZIP codes like 90810 you may also need a geotechnical soils report as a condition of the permit because of the historical subsidence in the Wilmington Oil Field area. We pull the permits and the inspections get signed before we call the job finished.
In Long Beach, wall cracks often trace back to either expansive clay soil that shifts seasonally, or to settling on older foundations that predate modern seismic standards. In the flat, low-lying areas near the port, it can also be the long shadow of the Wilmington subsidence event. We can inspect and tell you the difference between a cosmetic crack and a structural one.
Not without your signature. Every scope, every allowance, every price change arrives as a written change order before any work happens. You will never get a surprise invoice at the end of a Barrett & Sons job, because the only number that changes is one you approved on paper first.
Most Long Beach roof replacements take two to five days once materials are on site, though coastal humidity can add a day for decking to dry if we find rot under the old shingles. We’ll give you a schedule in writing before we start and we’ll stick to it.
Written by Tom Barrett, Owner at Barrett & Sons Construction, serving Long Beach and the surrounding communities since 1998.
Ready to get a real number from a contractor who answers his own phone? Call (877) 610-1318 for your free estimate. We’ll walk the property with you, put the scope in writing, and tell you straight what needs doing and what can wait. No pressure, no surprises, no strangers at the door.
What happens when you call
- 1A real person answersNo phone trees - talk to a local construction pro.
- 2You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched. No surprises.
- 3We come out and measureLicensed & insured, at a time that suits you - the visit and the quote are both free.
- 4You get the price in writingLine-itemed, yours to keep, and nothing starts until you say go.
What Long Beach Customers Say
"Beautiful work and honest pricing throughout. The project ran about three weeks past the estimate waiting on the cabinets, which was the supplier rather than him, though the delay was still real."
- Genevieve Ashcombe"Full kitchen down to the studs. He found the previous owner had done the wiring himself and it was genuinely dangerous, showed me, and put it right properly rather than boxing it back in."
- Augustus Nwachukwu"He pulled every permit and had every inspection signed off. The last contractor we used told us permits were optional and I have been paying for that ever since."
- Redmond Cavanaugh