American Reliable Construction & Remodeling is a licensed general contractor working throughout Burbank, CA, and Burbank home remodeling is a large part of what we build each year. From our Sherman Oaks office we are twelve minutes from Magnolia Park, and we design, permit and build kitchen remodels, bathroom remodels, room additions, garage conversions, ADU projects and roofing for Burbank homeowners as a single accountable team rather than a chain of subcontractors nobody is coordinating.
Burbank housing is unusually varied for a city its size. North of Magnolia Boulevard you find 1920s and 1930s bungalows and Spanish-style homes on modest lots, where a kitchen remodel almost always means removing the wall between a closed galley kitchen and the dining room, setting an engineered beam, and dealing with knob-and-tube remnants, 100-amp panels and galvanized supply lines that were never meant to run a modern kitchen. In the Rancho district the lots are deep and often carry equestrian rights, which makes them good candidates for a detached ADU, a garage conversion or a single-story family-room addition that keeps the roofline continuous. Up in the Verdugo foothills above Glenoaks the questions change again: grading, drainage, retaining walls, driveway access and hillside review all have to be answered before a set of drawings is worth submitting. We also work regularly in Toluca Lake, on the western edge of the city, where traditional and ranch homes on quiet streets tend toward whole-home renovations and primary-suite additions rather than piecemeal work.
Burbank is not part of the City of Los Angeles, so nothing goes through LADBS. Permits are issued by the City of Burbank Community Development Department, Building & Safety Division, and its plan-check comments, correction cycles and inspection scheduling run on their own timeline. We prepare the drawings, submit them, answer corrections, and schedule and attend every inspection under our license, CSLB #1155602. You get a written, itemized estimate before anything is scheduled, one project coordinator to call, and a bathroom remodel or kitchen that was built to pass inspection the first time rather than to be repaired after it.
