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Structural services for the Wasatch Front
GUZMAN THE BUILDER, LLC keeps dedicated crew foremen for additions, remodels, concrete and framing along the whole building season. Pick the crew your project needs, then book a walk and meet the person who will run it
Home Additions and Bump-Outs
Spring
When a family outgrows its floor plan, the least disruptive answer is almost always an addition that shares the existing roof and foundation lines rather than a move across town. Additions and bump-outs add a finished room, a widened kitchen footprint, a primary suite or a lower-level bedroom wing by pushing the plan wall outward a few important feet or standing a second level where the structure allows. The work starts with a real site walk, a check of the existing framing and footer condition, and a sketch that gives straight numbers. Our addition crews handle the full sequence in house: foundation matching, floor and wall framing that aligns to the original plates, roofing that ties into the existing planes, and a finished exterior that reads as part of the house rather than a bolt-on box. Because the crew controls framing, sheathing and weather sealing, the seams stay tight at the joints where additions most often leak. Bump-outs that capture a dropped window seat, a bigger pantry or a bath wall next to a hall come together faster and cheaper than a full wing, often with no foundation pour at all when the floor can cantilever on engineered joists. We build additions on the ground for owners who want to stay in the house and for those who prefer to clear out; either way the foreman keeps a clean job site, protects the floors and trims daily, and closes the roof before it rains. The honest part of additions sits in the estimating, because hidden slab issues or a frost heave under an old walkway will change your plan. We price the risk before the dig, write the scope plainly and keep the calendar the season allows. From a modest sleeping porch that gains a bedroom to a full two-story family wing over a garage, GUZMAN THE BUILDER, LLC treats each addition as an extension of a home you already love, not a new project that forgets the old one. Call to schedule an addition walk and get a footprint you can actually afford to build.
Kitchen and Bath Remodels
Year Round
Kitchens and baths are the rooms where a remodel pays back hardest and where a sloppy trade order costs the most. Our remodel crews understand that a kitchen runs in a specific rhythm, so we protect your cooking space and your family routine while the work gets done. The job begins by gutting the old room down to studs and joists, laying eyes on the real plumbing and electrical behind the walls, and only then rebuilding. We relocate supply lines tight to code, route venting cleanly to the nearest wall, and set cabling before any finish goes on. The carpentry side gets equal care: upper cabinets hang level against walls we have already trued, countertop returns sit square, and tile or stone lands on backsplashes that are actually flat. Bath remodels follow the same order with extra attention to moisture, because a tub never leaks the day it is installed but only years later if the pan and the waterproofing were rushed. Our crews rebuild walk-in showers with a correct slope to a straight-running linear drain, set wall board that sheds water properly, and transition tile panels so the corners stay crisp. We advise honestly on the big trade-offs, such as a freestanding tub versus a generous shower, a full-wall backsplash versus a counter-height run, or heated floor zones that burden the electrical panel. Drawings and a set allowance structure keep material choices clear, so the final bill tracks the choice you made rather than a surprise upgrade you did not. Because each room is typically finished in phases that keep water and power usable until the very end, many clients live through a remodel without a single cooking outage longer than a dinner. Kitchen and bath remodels from GUZMAN THE BUILDER, LLC come with one accountable crew, one foreman on the phone and a finish list checked against a real punch walk before we hand back the keys.
Concrete Flatwork and Foundations
Warm Season
Good concrete is won in the hours before the pour, when the grade is screened, the forms are set and the steel is tied, and it is lost in a pour that runs too wet or finishes too late. Our flatwork crews bring the patience of finishers who have watched thousands of cubic yards set up under a Utah sun. We build patios, driveways, walkways, shop slabs, pool aprons and light commercial floor slabs with forms set square to the building, control joints struck early and at even spacing, and an edging creep that leaves a clean arris around every pour. For foundations, the crew works from a staked layout, digs and grades the trench to line, sets rigid forms to a string line and places a wall that comes out plumb rather than a guess. Rebar is tied at the prescribed mat, dowels extend for the future wall or slab, and the mud is delivered, vibrated and screeded in one organized run coordinated with the ready-mix driver. We finish driveways with a broom that bites evenly, salt or swirl options on patios, and an exposed aggregate that stands up to a mountain winter. Because flatwork lives where water runs, we establish positive drainage away from the house and pitch every slab the couple of inches that keep a basement dry for decades. Also in this lane are flat slab-on-grade additions, structural pier footings for a new patio cover, and walkway replacements that keep an entry path safe and level. Quality concrete is a rhythm job, so our crews own ready-mix trucks two batches at a time and match weather windows to curing needs rather than squeezing pours into an afternoon that is not ready. Trust the pour to a crew that keeps the mud moving, keeps the form lines straight and stamps its name in the walkway hem only where a client asks. For foundations and flatwork across the Wasatch Front, give GUZMAN THE BUILDER, LLC a call and let our finishers size your next pour.
Framing and Structural Carpentry
Build Season
Framing is where a building either earns its straightness or carries the cost of sloppiness into every trade that follows. Our framing crews are structured crews with a lead carpenter who shoots the building square before the first stud stands. We frame interior partitions plumb and true, set engineered I-joists and open-web trusses on layout, hang LVL headers and beams on seats that carry real load, and shear walls that answer the engineer drawing rather than a shortcut instinct. For the residential side this covers new additions, whole-house structural remodels, basement finishing, garages and detached shops. On the light commercial side we pitch in on tilt-up warehouses, commercial shell alterations, church halls, retail mezzanines and barndominium packages where a steel-column and wood-framed system needs a crew that reads a plan set cold. Our carpenters cut rafters and build gable ends true, set stair stringers with run and rise that never trip a walker, and frame door and window openings with headers and cripples that match the engineer note. Because we coordinate with concrete and steel trades upstream, the anchor bolts land on layout and the hold-downs set where they are drawn. The discipline shows in small tells: squared corners, level plates, and walls that do not need shims by the bucketful later. Every straight wall we frame saves our own drywall crews, the electricians and the cabinet installer hours, and that saving lands in the bid you see rather than a change order you do not. Structural repairs also land here, from sistering a compromised floor joist and replacing a rotted rim board to jacking and leveling a sagging beam or door header. If a builder needs a dependable framing subcontractor with its own insured crews, GUZMAN THE BUILDER, LLC answers that call on time and on layout. Ask us to frame your next wing, shop or commercial bay.
Roofing and Exterior Envelope
Dry Season
A building keeps its value only while its skin stays sealed, which is why our roofing and envelope crews time the work to the dry months and close every structure tight before the fall rain. We handle steep-slope residential re-roofs and new construction roof closes on additions and light commercial shells. The work begins by stripping old layers honestly, inspecting the deck, the flashing and the valleys, and correcting any soft sheathing before a single new shingle goes on. Then the crew lays synthetic underlayment in courses that shed water from bottom to top, installs step flashing that turns up each course of the roof and lands over the wall sheathing, and sets hip and ridge caps cut to a straight line. We flash every protruding detail, from plumbing stacks to skylights and dormer junctions, because roof leaks trace almost always to a flashing detail rather than a field of shingles. Matching shingle manufactures let us hand you a roof with the same warranty the manufacturer honors, and we stand behind the workmanship with our own written backing. Beyond the roof plane, the exterior envelope includes wall sheathing, window and door installation set plumb with correct flashing tape laps, and weather sealing that keeps air and water out while vapor can still escape. Siding repair and replacement, garage door trim and soffit and fascia work all sit in this lane. When we close an addition shell, the envelope arrives dry-in on schedule so interior work can start without a weather worry. For new roofs, whole-building envelope work and the detail carpentry that keeps a home comfortable and dry, the crews of GUZMAN THE BUILDER, LLC read the deck first and nail the flashing second. Call to book a roof inspection that photographs the real condition and prices the repair or the full replace.
Permits and Inspections Management
Every Season
Every municipality along the Wasatch Front wants to see a permit, staged inspections and a final certificate, and that paper trail is as much a part of a build as the concrete. Our office walks the whole approval sequence for you so the permit never becomes the reason a season slips. We prepare the drawings and documents, lodge the application with the building department, track land-use and zoning clearances where they apply, and answer any correction comment in writing. When the buried utility, foundation, framing, insulation and final inspections each come due, we schedule them, meet the inspector on site and handle the correction list fast. A building passes more smoothly when the permit holder knows the codes cold and keeps the work to the approved drawing, which is exactly what you get when the same company that frames the job also carries the permit through closeout. This service matters most when a homeowner wants to sell, refinance or finish an unpermitted space later, because the permanent record of a clean permit protects resale value and saves the expensive retrofit that a missing approval forces. We also manage permits for structural additions, detached buildings, remodels that change egress or footprint, and the myriad small approvals a light commercial tenant improvement demands from fire marshal to public works. By front-loading the approval questions early in your bid walk, our office catches a setback requirement or a height note before it becomes a redesign. Reliable permits and inspections management lets homeowners build with confidence and lets contractors pull permits without a full office staff of their own. Let GUZMAN THE BUILDER, LLC carry the paper so your builder can carry the tools.