Trico Construction, LLC

Residential Construction, Additions & Seismic Retrofit San Francisco, CA Since 1973 CSLB licence number on request

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Telephone (415) 543-2100

Answered by somebody who has been through this process many hundreds of times. Telephone during working hours, or send the form below and we will reply the same working day.

Send an enquiry

Everything except your name, an address to reply to and a description of the project is optional. The more of it you fill in, the more useful the first reply is — but if you are standing in the building right now, telephone instead.

Street and neighbourhood is enough.
A decade is fine. “Old” is fine too.
What you want to do, whether anybody is living there, and when you would like to be finished. If you are inside a contingency period on a purchase, say so first — that is a different and more urgent conversation. Please do not attach drawings or anything about your finances to a first enquiry; telephone and we will tell you where to send them.

We reply during working hours, Mon–Fri 8:00 AM–5:00 PM PT. Nobody is added to a mailing list for sending this.

Four things worth having to hand

None is essential — telephone with nothing but a question if you like — but with these four a first call usually ends with a realistic schedule and an order of magnitude rather than with somebody promising to get back to you.

  1. The address, and roughly when it was built. Those two together tell an experienced person most of what matters about the structure and the approval path.
  2. What you want to do, in one sentence. “Push the back out and add a bathroom” is a better brief than a ten-page description.
  3. Whether anybody is living there, including tenants. This changes the cost, the schedule and, if there are tenants, the legal position.
  4. When you would like to be finished, and why. A baby, a lease ending or a compliance deadline are all real constraints, and they change what we would advise.
ContractorNAICS 236116

Trico Construction, LLC

981 Howard StSan Francisco, CA 94103
Telephone
(415) 543-2100
Email
[email protected]
Hours
Mon–Fri 8:00 AM–5:00 PM PT
Licence
CSLB licence number on request
In business
San Francisco since 1973

What happens next

  1. We talk it through and tell you which approval path you are on — which is frequently not the one people expect.
  2. You get a realistic schedule and an order of magnitude built from the published schedules and prices, with the assumptions stated.
  3. If it is worth going further, we look at the building properly and say what has to be established before anybody can price it.
  4. Nothing is charged and nothing is scheduled until there is a written, signed contract. How the money works.

No obligation attaches to any of it. The opt-out policy says how to have what we hold deleted.

By email or post

By email. [email protected]

Trico Construction, LLC 981 Howard St San Francisco, CA 94103

Please telephone before visiting — the people you would want to speak to are usually on a site rather than sitting at a front desk.

Inside a contingency period?

Say so in the first sentence. Looking at an old San Francisco house before the period closes is a different and more urgent conversation than planning a project, and it is one we would rather have early in the window than on the last afternoon of it.

Trico Construction, LLC · 981 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94103

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