Sacramento, CA · Sacramento County
Sacramento's older housing stock — Land Park bungalows, East Sacramento two-stories, Tahoe Park post-war ranches — means most remodels involve unreinforced foundations, undersized headers or roof framing that was never designed for today's open-plan layouts. We provide structural plans and calculations that the City of Sacramento plan checkers expect: clear load paths, lateral analysis where walls are removed, and details keyed to the architectural set. Upload your plans or photos and we'll scope the engineering.
Example projects
Illustrative scopes for the kinds of projects submitted from this jurisdiction.
Removal of a 14-foot bearing wall between kitchen and dining in a 1940s single-story home with a conventional roof.
Jurisdiction
City of Sacramento
Turnaround
5–7 business days
Single-story rear addition tied into an existing raised-floor residence.
Jurisdiction
City of Sacramento
Turnaround
10–15 business days
In most cases, yes. When a bearing wall is removed or a new opening is created, plan check typically requires beam and post design, a load path to the foundation and, where the wall was part of the lateral system, a lateral analysis. We provide engineer-reviewed calculations and details sized for the City's submittal requirements.
Often, yes. Upload the correction letter and the existing structural set. We'll tell you whether we can respond within the existing design or whether the project needs to be re-engineered.
Projects in Carmichael, Fair Oaks, Orangevale, Arden-Arcade and other unincorporated areas are permitted through Sacramento County Building Permits and Inspection. Our documents follow the same California Building Code basis; we note the correct jurisdiction on the cover sheet.
How it works
Tell us what you're building and upload whatever you already have. Plans, photos, sketches and permit comments can all be submitted.
We review the project and send you a defined engineering scope, price and estimated turnaround.
Your project moves through structural design, calculations, drafting and engineer review.
Final engineering documents are delivered through your project dashboard. Permit comments can be submitted back through the same project.
What you can submit
Accepted project information:
Don't have everything yet?
Submit what you have. We'll tell you what else is needed before engineering begins.
Upload what you have and we will define the engineering scope and send a quote.
No commitment required to submit a project for review.