G&J Builders is a licensed general contractor working in Altadena, Pacific Palisades, and across Los Angeles. We rebuild homes lost to fire, build ADUs, and take on additions and remodels — and we document your scope of loss properly so your settlement actually covers the work.
Everything we take on is residential and everything is run by the same person from first walkthrough to final inspection.
Full reconstruction after a total loss — debris clearance through certificate of occupancy. Ten completed in Altadena and Pacific Palisades.
Line-item rebuild estimates and supplemental documentation you can put in front of your adjuster when the first offer doesn’t cover what it costs to build.
Detached and attached accessory dwelling units, designed and permitted through construction. Rental income, family housing, or a place to live while the main house goes up.
Kitchens, baths, whole-house renovations, structural work, and additions. Fourteen completed.
Most people have never done this and nobody hands you a map. Here is the order it goes in.
Debris and foundation removal, soil testing, and site access. Nothing else can start until the lot is clean and cleared.
A real line-item cost to rebuild what you had, at today’s prices. This is the number your settlement gets measured against.
Architectural and structural drawings, soils and civil work, then plan check with the agency that governs your lot.
Foundation, framing, mechanical, insulation, finishes. Weekly reporting so you know where the money and the schedule stand.
Final inspections, certificate of occupancy, punch list, and closeout documents for your lender and carrier.
Most contractors learned to build in the field. Gianni Pink did that too — and holds a master’s in civil engineering, an MBA, a PMP, and a LEED accreditation on top of it.
That matters most in the two places rebuilds go wrong: the estimate and the schedule. A rebuild priced off a rough square-foot number will run out of money in the middle. A rebuild without a real critical path will sit waiting on a window order nobody placed.
You get one point of contact who prices the job, builds the schedule, runs the trades, and answers the phone.
Line-item estimates, written change orders, weekly logs, and a decisions record. If it isn’t written down, it didn’t happen.
Drawing conflicts caught before they reach the field, so your permit doesn’t stall in re-review and your inspection doesn’t fail twice.
No handoff from the salesperson to a project manager you’ve never met. The person who quotes it is the person who builds it.
Every project on this page was priced line by line, scheduled against a real critical path, and run by the same person who answered the first phone call. That is the whole method. If you want to know how a job of yours would go, ask me for a reference and I will put you in touch with the owner.
No charge for the first conversation. Tell me what you have — a lot, a claim, a set of plans, or just a question — and I’ll tell you honestly whether I’m the right fit.