General Contractor in San Rafael, CA

Remodeling in San Rafael

San Rafael is the seat of Marin County and its largest city, and the houses reflect a long history. Mission San Rafael Arcángel was founded in 1817, and the downtown grid and Gerstle Park hold Victorian and Craftsman houses from the decades afterward. Farther north in Terra Linda and the Lucas Valley area, the neighborhoods date to the 1950s and 1960s, with many Eichler-designed homes with their post-and-beam construction and flat or low-pitched roofs.

Those Eichler-era homes come with distinct remodeling questions. Many were built with radiant heating in the concrete slab, which affects any flooring or tile project, and with tongue-and-groove ceilings and exposed beams that you do not want to hide. A contractor who treats them like a generic ranch house will make costly mistakes.

E&MC Remodeling is growing its San Rafael work from our Vallejo base. We are glad to take on the bathrooms, tile and lighting projects that make a San Rafael house feel complete, and we are straightforward about what each neighborhood's houses will need.

San Rafael also has real variety within a few miles. Downtown and the Canal area are dense and low-lying, Gerstle Park and the hills above it have older houses on steeper lots, and Terra Linda spreads into flatter suburban streets. We treat each as its own condition: a flood-aware plan for the low areas, careful access planning on the hills and slab-aware flooring work in the Eichler tracts.