Siding Contractor
in Santa Monica, CA
Done Right, Once.
Fiber cement, stucco, wood and metal on Santa Monica houses, replaced or repaired by our own crew with the weather barrier and flashing done properly, the permit pulled through the city, and a 10-year workmanship warranty in writing.
Siding Contractor in Santa Monica, CA: Right Image Builders (CSLB #1021284) replaces and repairs siding and stucco for 1920s–50s bungalows and Spanish houses, larger lots north of Montana, coastal exposure and salt air across North of Montana, Sunset Park and Ocean Park, with its own crew and permits through the City of Santa Monica Building and Safety. 2–4 weeks on site for a single-story house; 4–6 weeks for two-story and hillside houses. One fixed written price after a free on-site estimate.
Licensed general contractor, CSLB #1021284, licensed since 2016, 5.0★ Google (45 reviews), 4.9★ Angi (103 reviews). Office in Valley Glen, about 35 minutes from Santa Monica. Planning ranges by tier and neighborhood are in the siding cost guide.
Right Image Builders is a licensed siding contractor serving Santa Monica: fiber cement (James Hardie and similar), three-coat re-stucco and stucco repair, engineered and natural wood, metal, and stucco-to-siding conversions, with the dry rot, flashing and window repairs behind the wall handled under the same contract. The crew that measures the house is the crew that builds it. 10-year written workmanship warranty. Free on-site estimate: (818) 210-4544.
Siding in Santa Monica
at a Glance
Time on site
2–4 weeks for a single-story house; 4–6 weeks for two-story and hillside houses that need scaffolding on every elevation.
Permits
The City of Santa Monica Building and Safety (own city; 100% electronic plan review); pulled, inspected and closed by us before the final payment.
Fire-hazard zone
Most addresses outside the mapped fire-hazard zones; confirmed per parcel.
Proof
Licensed general contractor, CSLB #1021284, own siding crew, 10-year written workmanship warranty, 5.0★ Google (45 reviews).
Who does the work
Our own crew, under one licensed general contractor (CSLB #1021284), on one permitted contract.
How we price
One fixed, written price after a free on-site visit; hidden conditions priced in writing before the crew continues; final payment after your walkthrough.
What Santa Monica Walls
Usually Need
The houses we re-side in Santa Monica are mostly 1920s–50s bungalows and Spanish houses, larger lots north of Montana. Around North of Montana, Sunset Park, Ocean Park and the Pico neighborhood the walls tell the same story we see across the Westside: original stucco or wood from the first build, patched over the decades, with the weather barrier behind it long past its life.
On a Spanish or stucco house the honest answer is usually stucco again: a re-coat when the base is sound, a full three-coat re-stucco when it rings hollow or has let water in. On a Craftsman or 1920s bungalow the clapboard profile is the house; fiber cement lap or engineered wood reproduces it, and the trim and water table are rebuilt rather than covered. Salt air changes the fasteners, not the siding: stainless or hot-dip galvanized nails, flashing that does not corrode, and a primed-all-sides fiber cement or a three-coat stucco that shrugs off the marine layer.
Either way the sequence does not change: tear-off to the sheathing, dry-rot and framing repair priced in writing, a new weather-resistive barrier with flashing at every window, deck ledger and corner, then the siding or lath. Santa Monica is 35 minutes from our Valley Glen office, so the same crew that measures the house builds it.
No Surprise Invoices
in Santa Monica
A siding replacement in Santa Monica starts with a free on-site visit and ends with one fixed, written price that covers the whole scope, the permit from the City of Santa Monica Building and Safety and the inspections, before any work begins.
The three things that change the price are the scope, what the house hides and the finishes you choose, and each is settled in writing before the crew moves on; final payment comes after your walkthrough.
If you want numbers before the visit, the siding cost guide publishes the current planning ranges.
Permits and the Fire Code
in Santa Monica
Siding in Santa Monica is permitted by City of Santa Monica Permit Services Center, 1685 Main St (paperless plan review, appointments), not LADBS: Santa Monica's plan review is entirely electronic, and houses in the coastal zone can carry an extra review step. A like-for-like re-side or re-stucco is usually a straightforward permit; a conversion or structural repair is an alteration permit. We pull it, schedule the inspections and close it before the final payment.
Most Santa Monica addresses sit outside the mapped Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones, so the standard building code applies to a re-side; we still confirm your parcel on the CAL FIRE map, and homeowners who want a noncombustible exterior anyway choose fiber cement or three-coat stucco, which cost the same here as anywhere else in Los Angeles.
Sources: 2025 California Wildland-Urban Interface Code (Title 24, Part 7), effective January 1, 2026, which replaced Chapter 7A; applies to alterations and repairs in Fire Hazard Severity Zones; coatings are not an approved method of protection (read); CAL FIRE Office of the State Fire Marshal: Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps and the Wildland-Urban Interface building materials listing (maps).
Every Siding Service,
One Licensed Crew
Full siding replacement
Tear-off, dry-rot and sheathing repair, new weather-resistive barrier, flashing at every window, door, deck ledger and corner, new siding, trim and caulking, ready for paint.
Siding and stucco repair
Cracked stucco, soft boards, termite and woodpecker damage, rot at the base of a wall, failed caulking: matched, flashed and finished so the repair disappears.
Re-stucco and re-coat
Three-coat re-stucco over new paper and lath, one-coat systems, or a patch-and-re-coat with a new color or elastomeric finish; smooth and textured.
Conversions
Stucco to fiber cement or wood siding, or siding to stucco, with the flashing and structural details each direction needs, permitted as an alteration.
Fire-zone exteriors
Noncombustible fiber cement, metal or three-coat stucco, or treated wood, with ember-resistant vents, built to the 2025 California Wildland-Urban Interface Code where Santa Monica parcels fall inside a fire-hazard zone.
What is behind the wall
The rotted stud, the failed window flashing or the deck ledger we uncover is repaired under the same contract and permit, not referred out.
Three Steps.
Zero Surprises.
Free Exterior Assessment
We walk every elevation, probe for rot and check the barrier, flashing and weep screed, and tell you honestly what the wall needs.
Fixed-Price Proposal
An itemized fixed price by elevation and material within 3–5 business days; hidden rot found at tear-off is priced in writing before the crew continues.
Install, Inspect, Warrant
Our own crew, a closed permit, and a 10-year written workmanship warranty at completion.
Free Siding Estimate
in Santa Monica
Tell us about the house and what you are seeing on the walls; a senior member of our team will reach out within 4 business hours to schedule the on-site assessment in Santa Monica.
Prefer to talk it through?
(818) 210-4544Questions Santa Monica Homeowners
Ask About Siding
We are a licensed general contractor, not a one-material shop, so siding and stucco are both in-house: fiber cement and wood lap, panel and board-and-batten, metal, and stucco from crack repair to a new three-coat system, with conversions between the two. On the Santa Monica houses near Sunset Park the mix of materials is the norm, and we flash the transitions ourselves.
The permit is ours to pull, through the City of Santa Monica Building and Safety (own city; 100% electronic plan review), and it is part of the fixed price. Re-siding over sound sheathing or re-stuccoing is routine; opening a wall for rot or changing stucco to siding is an alteration permit with an inspection of the flashing before anything is covered. It is closed, in writing, before you pay the balance.
A single-story house in Santa Monica is usually 2–4 weeks: tear-off, rot repair, barrier and flashing, then siding or stucco coats. Hillside and two-story houses take 4–6 weeks because of the scaffolding and the hand-carried material. The work is outside the living space, so nobody moves out.
Check the license (CSLB #1021284 for us, verifiable at cslb.ca.gov), the insurance certificate, the length of the written workmanship warranty (ten years here), and whether the scope says who pulls the Santa Monica permit and what happens when rot is found at tear-off. Those answers separate a re-side from a cover-up.
With one fixed, written price after a free on-site visit. We measure the house, confirm what the City of Santa Monica Building and Safety will require for your address, and itemize the whole scope before you sign; anything uncovered during the work in Santa Monica is priced in writing before the crew continues, and the final payment comes after your walkthrough. Planning ranges are published in the siding cost guide.
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