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Custom Home Building
Ground-up construction on your lot — from feasibility and budget alignment through framing, finishes and final sign-off.
San Diego · Since 2019
Built square, finished immaculate.
A licensed general contractor building custom homes, additions and full renovations across San Diego — run by the person who is actually on your site.
15+
Years on the tools
4.2
Average client rating
A+
BBB rating
99
BuildZoom contractor score
What we build
Six trades, one
Six trades, one
accountable builder.
Every project runs through the same licence, the same crew standards and the same person answering the phone. No subcontracted chaos, no vanishing act after the deposit clears.
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Home Additions & Structural
Second storeys, ADUs, bump-outs and the foundation and window work that has to be right underneath them.
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Kitchen Remodeling
Layout, cabinetry, stone, plumbing and lighting handled as a single package so the trades stop blaming each other.
04
Bathroom Remodeling
Waterproofing, substrate and drainage done properly first — then the tile, stone and fixtures you actually picked out.
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Whole-Home Renovation
Interior gut and rebuild, phased and sequenced so you know what happens each week and when you get your house back.
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Decks & Outdoor Living
Decks, patio covers and shade structures detailed for coastal exposure, so they still look right in year ten.
CSLB #1049743
Licence verified
Who you are hiring
The owner is the
The owner is the
one on your site.
Rooster Builders is Russell Taylor's company. He trained and worked in San Diego for over fifteen years before incorporating in 2018 and taking on his own licence in 2019 — which means the person quoting your project is the same person walking it.
That single fact removes most of what goes wrong on residential jobs. Scope is aligned to your budget and design criteria before anyone swings a hammer, decisions get made on site instead of in a queue, and there is one name attached to the outcome.
- Licensed, bonded and insured — CSLB Class B General Building
- A+ rated with the Better Business Bureau
- Pre-construction planning that aligns scope, budget and design
- Direct communication with the owner, not a call centre
How it runs
Four stages,
Four stages,
no surprises.
Most build horror stories start with a scope that never matched the budget. We settle that first, in writing, before the work starts.
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Site visit & free estimate
We walk the property, listen to what you actually want, and give you a real number — not a placeholder that doubles once demolition starts.
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Pre-construction planning
Scope, budget and design criteria are aligned into one document. Selections, lead times and permit requirements are settled before the first delivery lands.
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Build, with the owner on site
Sequenced trades, protected finishes, and a weekly picture of exactly where the project stands. You always know what is happening next.
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Walkthrough & sign-off
We punch the list together. Nothing is called finished until you have looked at it and agreed that it is.
Selected work
The kind of work
The kind of work
we take on.
Custom homes, deep interior renovations and the structural work most remodelers hand off. View the full portfolio.
In their words
What clients say,
What clients say,
by the work we did.
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Tell us about the project.
Send the details, or just call. You will speak to Russell — the person who will price the work and run it.
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Request your
free estimate.
We build across San Diego County. Tell us where the project is and roughly what you have in mind — we will come back with honest next steps, even if that answer is "not us".
- San Diego
- 4S Ranch
- Rancho Bernardo
- Poway
- Del Sur
- Carmel Valley
- Rancho Santa Fe
- Scripps Ranch