House Bolting

A Los Angeles foundation bolting company, we try to understand the needs of our customers. When we perform an foundation bolting repair project, we place as much emphasis on the Los Angeles earthquake retrofitting codes and guidelines, as we do on the comfort of the client and the safety of the job site, time frame and budget. We know how important it is to keep mess and debris to a minimum in order to create a safe and clean environment near the job site.

We perform full seismic retrofitting ("house bolting") to current standards (bolts, plywood shear panel, floor joist blocking, framing clips, permits). The exact specifications of this work can be viewed directly via the City of Los Angeles website at www.ladbs.org. Even if you do not live in Los Angeles itself, all cities that we work in recognize the Los Angeles standards and accept them on all work we perform. This includes, but is not limited to, Glendale, Burbank, West Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Pasadena, South Pasadena and Culver City. Other cities also apply, though these are the areas we service most often.

We also perform corrections of incorrectly performed or antiquated bolting jobs in order to help protect those homes during future earthquakes. (Statistic: 85% of buildings within various cities of Los Angeles county that have been "bolted" since the 1994 Northridge earthquake had the work performed sub-standardly when it was done.) Unfortunately, only about 15% of the inspections we perform find houses to be properly and fully retrofitted. This includes houses that have been "retrofitted" after the 1994 Northridge earthquake. If your foundation retrofit is sub-standard in some way, we will be able to provide you a recipe of correction to resolve that deficiency and help protect your home from loss in any future earthquakes.