Remodeling and Handyman Contractors in Truckee, CA

What Truckee contractors get called for most

Kitchen remodeling

Truckee kitchens take abuse that valley kitchens never see. Six months of wet boots, holiday houses running at triple capacity, and cabinet runs that were laid out in 1978 for a family of four. We handle layout changes, cabinetry, counters, lighting and the plumbing and electrical behind them. See how the work comes together on our kitchen remodeling page, and if you are budgeting, our breakdown of what a kitchen remodel costs in Tahoe uses real regional numbers rather than national averages.

Bathroom remodeling

Tight footprints, old cast iron, and tile that has been grouted over twice. Most Truckee bathroom remodels we quote are in homes built before low-flow fixtures and modern waterproofing existed. Details are on the bathrooms page, and our bathroom remodel planning guide walks through sequencing before you commit to finishes.

Exterior remodeling

This is the category Truckee drives hardest. Siding that has taken twenty winters of freeze and thaw, decks rated for a snow load your parcel may not actually carry anymore, windows fogging at the seals, and roof edges that shed onto walkways. Our exterior remodeling work covers siding, decks, windows, doors and trim. Two useful cost references before you call: siding a house and window replacement.

ADUs in Truckee

Truckee has a genuine housing squeeze, and an ADU is one of the few moves a homeowner can make about it. Garage conversions, attached units and detached new builds all run through Town of Truckee review, and the snow design rules apply to the new structure exactly as they do to the main house. Start with our ADU page, then read our ADU cost breakdown for Lake Tahoe and Reno for permitting and return expectations.

Handyman services The list that never gets done. Door that will not latch after the house settled, drywall patch, cabinet hardware, shelving, fixture swaps, screen repair, caulking, hauling. Booking one visit for eleven small items is cheaper than eleven separate trade calls, and it is the whole reason the company is named what it is. Our post on handyman services across Tahoe and Reno lists what a typical visit covers.

What makes building in Truckee different from building anywhere else in California

Truckee incorporated on March 23, 1993, sits at 6,152 feet, and had 16,729 residents at the 2020 census. It is in Nevada County, not Placer and not El Dorado, and that single fact resolves most of the confusion homeowners bring to a first meeting.

The confusion is about TRPA. The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency regulates land use inside the Lake Tahoe Basin, which is why a Tahoe City or Incline Village project runs through a review process that a Truckee project does not. Truckee is a gateway community outside the Basin. Your permits go through the Town of Truckee Building and Safety Division at Town Hall on Truckee Airport Road. A neighbor two miles south in Martis Valley may be dealing with Placer County instead. Same mailing address, different agency.

Then there is snow, and Truckee treats it as a structural problem rather than a weather problem. The entire town is declared a snow area under Town of Truckee Municipal Code sections 15.03.110 and 15.03.120, and those sections modify the standard requirements of the California Building Code. The consequence for homeowners is concrete: every structure requires engineered plans, which means the conventional construction shortcuts available in most of California do not apply here. Not to your addition, not to your deck, not to your ADU. Snow loads are set per parcel rather than per town, and the Town publishes a parcel level snow load map. Since January 1, 2026 the ASCE 7-22 design snow hazard tool can be used, and the 2025 California Codes now govern any submittal made after that date.

A rule of thumb the Town’s own building staff has published for years: roof capacity runs about 70 percent of the tabulated ground snow load for your parcel, and Truckee snow is figured at 25 pounds per cubic foot. Divide the load by that density and you get the snow depth your roof was designed for. It is worth doing that arithmetic once for your own house. Our winterizing guide covers the maintenance side of the same problem, and if your deck is the thing carrying the snow, deck replacement costs is the honest place to start.

Wildfire is the other constraint. The Truckee Fire Protection District runs the defensible space inspection, home hardening and Firewise programs for the area, and hardening decisions overlap directly with exterior remodeling choices: siding material, deck substructure, vent screening, window glazing. If you are already replacing siding, that is the cheapest moment you will ever have to harden the same wall.

Schools sit under the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District, headquartered on Donner Pass Road. TTUSD covers 723 square miles across Nevada, Placer and El Dorado counties and runs five elementary schools, a district sponsored K-8 charter, two middle schools, two comprehensive high schools including Truckee High, and two alternative schools. It is a basic aid district funded by local property taxes rather than the state formula, which is part of why the schools hold up.

Michael and Marijane Willson, who own the company, are long-time Tahoe locals, and the whole business grew out of a small handyman operation. Michael talked through that history on the Builder Lead Converter podcast, and the conversation is here if you want a sense of who you would be hiring. More on the team is on our about us page.

How a Truckee remodel actually runs, step by step

1. Discovery

We start with a call and a site visit, and in Truckee the site visit does more work than it does anywhere else. Two things get established before anyone talks about finishes: which jurisdiction reviews your project, and what snow load your parcel carries. If your address is inside Town limits, plans go to Town of Truckee Building and Safety. If you are in Martis Valley, including Martis Camp, Lahontan, Schaffer’s Mill or Northstar, you have a Truckee mailing address but Placer County review. Those are different agencies with different submittal requirements, and getting it wrong at the start costs you weeks.

2. Design

Layout, structure, materials and colours, worked out together. The constraint that shapes most Truckee designs is that the entire town is a declared snow area, so every structure requires engineered plans. There is no conventional construction shortcut here the way there is on the valley floor. That applies to a deck, an addition and an ADU equally. If your property sits in Tahoe Donner, Old Greenwood, Gray’s Crossing or Glenshire, association design review runs alongside the Town’s process, and we build that into the drawing set rather than treating it as an afterthought.

3. Planning

Permits, engineering, scheduling and sequencing. Ask the Town directly about current plan check turnaround before you commit to a date, because it moves with season and workload and I am not going to quote you a number I cannot stand behind. What we can plan around is the build window. Siding, decks, windows and roofing need a snow free site, so those get booked for a spring start and a summer or early autumn finish. Kitchens, bathrooms and interior work run through winter, which is often when our schedule is most open.

4. Construction

Our crew handles permits, inspections and subcontractors, and you get one project manager rather than a phone tree. We are licensed in both states, California CSLB #974246 and Nevada #86260, which matters in a market where plenty of homeowners have property on both sides of the state line. Progress updates come from the person actually running your job.

One linking note: this section is where the how a project runs link belongs, so move it here and drop it from the map section. That keeps the page at 27 links across 27 unique URLs rather than doubling up a target.