Smith and Son Builders

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About

Smith and Son Builders holds CSLB #1084469 and builds custom homes and full-scale remodels from Adams Avenue in Normal Heights, San Diego, 92116. Founder Dale Smith grew up on construction sites across Southern California alongside his father Dennis, whose career in homebuilding established the training foundation that Dale carried into his own firm. Custom home construction is the primary scope, with the firm managing ground-up builds from site preparation and foundation pour through framing, mechanical rough-in, and finish carpentry. Exterior hardscape and planting scopes that follow a ground-up build coordinate with Sage Outdoor Designs, whose landscape architecture services tie grading, drainage, and plant installation into the general contractor's construction schedule. Full-house remodels on Normal Heights' 1920s and 1930s bungalow stock require structural evaluation, load-bearing wall identification, and seismic retrofit integration before cosmetic finishes begin. The Adams Avenue office sits in the corridor between Normal Heights and Kensington, where the neighborhood's Craftsman and Spanish Revival homes create demand for renovation work that preserves original architectural character while upgrading mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems to current code. Room additions and layout reconfiguration projects allow the team to open up compartmentalized floor plans into the open-concept living spaces that buyers in the 92116 market increasingly expect. Re-roof and new-roof scopes that tie into a larger build timeline run through Urban Roof Masters, whose roofing crews integrate with the general contractor's framing and waterproofing sequence. Smith and Son runs its own framing crews, which controls the structural skeleton of every project and eliminates the scheduling gaps that occur when framing is subcontracted to third-party crews on a multi-job rotation.