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Three ways we build across the Tahoe Basin
New homes, full rebuilds, and custom remodels and additions across the Tahoe Basin. CA and NV licensed. 100+ homes delivered. Twenty-plus years on the South Shore.
New build · South Shore01 · New construction
Custom homes, lot to final inspection
Building a new home in Tahoe starts long before the foundation. TRPA land coverage allowances, BMP requirements, and the Building Department's seasonal grading windows shape what you can build and when. We handle the permitting sequence, hold the budget through allowances, and keep you off the surprise list.
We run the build, our field crew runs the work. Engineered for the local South Shore design conditions, not a generic mountain spec. We have taken 100+ homes from raw lot through occupancy, on both sides of the state line.
The full treatment, including how we read a lot before you buy and where we build across the basin, lives on the new construction page.
Featured · New build
Timber Wolfe
Tahoma
Demo & rebuild · South Shore02 · Demo & rebuild
When the lot is worth more than the cabin
Most South Shore lots are already built on. When a 1960s cabin is worth less than the dirt under it, a teardown and rebuild is usually the cleaner path: modern snow load engineering, current fire code, full TRPA recalculation of coverage. We have done this enough times to tell you within a site visit whether your lot pencils.
This is also the wildfire path. We rebuilt after Angora in 2007 and have worked through the basin's wildfire cycle since, inside insurance timelines and an overloaded permit office. If you are facing a rebuild after a fire loss, the work reads calm and operational here, not opportunistic.
The rebuild page walks the full sequence, from debris sign-off to coverage verification to insurance scope.
Featured · Wildfire rebuild
Stateline Lake Front Demo/Re-Build
Stateline
Remodels and additions · South Shore03 · Custom remodels and additions
Large remodels, additions that fit
Most of our remodel work is a serious piece of construction in its own right — a studs-out kitchen and great-room reconfiguration, a second-story addition over a 1980s ranch, a wraparound deck and master suite. We treat it the same way we treat a new build: budget, schedule, and a single crew from demo through punch list.
If we open a wall, we fix what is behind it. There is no point papering over a tired roof or a forty-year-old service panel to make a kitchen look new. When the envelope and the mechanical are open, that is the cheap time to bring them current. The Tahoe Keys partial-demo and addition we are working on now is a good example.
We will tell you honestly when an addition or remodel is the right call, and when a demo and rebuild would put your money to better use. That straight answer comes before any drawings.
Featured · Remodel
9th Ave
TahomaStart here
Which one is your project?
Four situations
One conversation
Then a site walk
i.
You own a vacant lot
Raw land, or a parcel you are about to buy. Nothing standing, or nothing worth keeping.
→New constructionLot to final inspection
Read more →ii.An aging cabin worth more as dirt
A 1960s or 70s house where the structure costs more to fix than to replace.
→Demo & rebuildDown to slab, then up
Read more →iii.A fire-damaged property
A total or partial loss after Angora or any fire. Insurance and permits in motion.
→Demo & rebuildWildfire rebuild path
Read more →iv.A house that needs more room, or a bigger remodel
A sound house you like, that needs an addition or a serious remodel to be the house you want.
→Remodels and additionsAdd on, open up, finish properly
Read more →Field guide · The basinSouth Shore · CA & NV
What building here involves
The four things that shape every Tahoe build
None of these are optional, and all of them are easier to plan for at the start than to discover at framing. We sit in pre-application meetings ourselves.
i. Permitting
TRPA coverage
Land coverage allowances, scenic thresholds, and height envelopes decide what fits on a parcel before a single line is drawn.
ii. Fire
Defensible space
Ember-resistant vents, hardened decks, and fire-resistant assemblies, designed in at framing rather than added on later.
iii. Climate
Snow load
South Shore ground snow load is not Reno or the North Shore. Every roof and beam is engineered to the local design number.
iv. Water
BMP requirements
Best Management Practices for runoff and infiltration are inspected and signed off. We build them in, not around them.
G&S ConstructionSouth Shore · CA & NV
What clients sayBudget discipline
Start to finish, no surprises.
G&S ConstructionSouth Shore · Lake Tahoe