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General contracting in San Antonio
One contractor for the whole property.
Make-ready and rental turnovers, roofing, remodeling, and the rest of the trades a property needs, coordinated by one person who owns the order the work happens in. Talk directly to the people doing it.
Start with what is actually happening.
Most people arrive here about a roof, and a roof is three different problems with three different conversations. Pick the one that sounds like yours.
Hail or high winds came through
Bruised or cracked shingles, granules washed into the gutters, dented vents and flashing. Photograph what you can see from the ground, note the date, and stay off the roof until someone checks it.
Storm damage roofing
A leak or a few missing shingles
A contained problem, usually at a vent, a valley, or a run of flashing. We trace it to where the water actually gets in, not just the stain it left on the ceiling.
Roof repair
The roof is near the end of its life
Curling shingles, bare spots where the granules are gone, leaks turning up in more than one place. When patching stops being the honest answer, we walk you through what a full replacement involves in San Antonio.
Roof replacementThe work we take on.
Roofing is where most people meet us, and it is rarely where the work stops. From a single roof repair to a full rental turnover, each of these has its own page, because each of them is its own conversation.
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Roofing
Repair when the damage is contained, replacement when the roof system is done, and storm damage work after hail or high winds.
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Make-ready
Rental turnovers and vacant-property care held as one coordinated scope: paint, flooring, drywall, and the punch list, sequenced by one point of contact.
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Remodeling
Kitchens, bathrooms, and rooms that do not work. The scope and the sequence get settled before anyone opens a wall.
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Home additions
New space, and the junction where it meets the house you already have. That junction is where the work actually is.
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Flooring
The subfloor decides what can go on top of it and how long it lasts there, so that is where a flooring job starts.
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Drywall
Repair, replacement, finishing, and texture matching, starting with what wet it or moved it in the first place.
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Painting
Interior and exterior work. Paint fails at the preparation, so most of the job happens before any color goes on.
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General contracting
One point of contact for work that crosses trades, and one written scope with the order of the work in it.
Turnovers and vacant properties, handled in one place.
Between residents, a rental usually needs several small trades at once: paint, a flooring repair, drywall patching, and a punch list of fixes that each belong to a different person. We take that make-ready work on as one coordinated scope instead of leaving you to line up and chase separate trades.
For a property standing empty, that also means routine care and coordinating the repairs it needs while no one is living in it. One written scope, one point of contact, and the work sequenced so the trades are not tripping over each other.
We would rather tell you it can be repaired.
Plenty of roofs that get quoted for replacement need a repair and an honest explanation. The difference comes down to what is actually wrong: whether the damage is in one area or spread across the roof, whether the deck underneath is still sound, and whether the leak has one cause or several.
That is a question you answer by looking, not by guessing from the age of the roof. We look first, tell you what we found, and put the scope in writing so you can read it, question it, or take it somewhere else for a second opinion.
How the work goes
No surprises between the call and the invoice.
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You tell us what you are seeing
A stain on the ceiling, shingles in the yard, a kitchen that does not work, a repair that has been waiting. Whatever you have noticed is enough to start.
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We look at the property
On a roof, that means the flashing, the penetrations, and the places water actually gets in, plus the attic side where it can be reached safely. Inside, it means what is behind the finishes before anyone commits to a plan.
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You get the findings in writing
What we found, what we recommend, what the work covers, and the order it happens in. If a permit applies, we tell you that up front rather than after.
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The work gets done and cleaned up
Agreed scope, agreed schedule. Anything that turns up once things are open, you hear at the point we find it. The site gets cleared when we are finished, which is where the company name comes from.
Where we work.
JC General Contractors serves San Antonio and the surrounding communities. If you are just outside this list, call and ask. It is a short conversation and we would rather tell you honestly than have you wonder.
- Alamo Heights
- Alamo Ranch
- Cibolo
- Helotes
- New Braunfels
- Schertz
- Stone Oak
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