Damascus & Boring Home Remodeling & Additions

The acreage estates along the Damascus-Boring corridor allow large-scale construction projects. Masters Construction specializes in massive ADU projects, custom shop-houses, and estate-level renovations that these expansive properties demand. These projects require engineering expertise and construction scale that only a second-generation builder can deliver.

Every project starts with estate architectural design and engineering, so you can walk the design before construction begins.

These expansive properties deserve outdoor living spaces that match their grand scale. We design and construct estate-level outdoor kitchens with full cooking stations, pizza ovens, bar areas, covered dining pavilions, fire features, and entertainment areas. These spaces rival indoor spaces in function and quality.

Damascus and Boring are unincorporated Clackamas County, so residential permits and land-use review both run through Clackamas County. Interior kitchen and bath remodels inside the existing footprint typically clear review in about three to five weeks.

• Additions, shops, accessory dwelling units and structural work generally take eight to fourteen weeks. They need engineered drawings plus a land-use review covering setbacks, height, lot coverage and, on rural-zoned parcels, limits on the size and use of accessory structures.
• Most properties out here are on a private well and septic system, so adding bedrooms or bathrooms triggers a health-department review of septic capacity. That review, not the building permit, is usually what sets the schedule. Parcels near creeks, wetlands or steep ground can add a natural-resource or grading review.
• Masters Construction handles the full track: measured existing-conditions drawings, construction documents, structural engineering coordination, septic and well coordination, and the county submittals. We also handle written responses to review comments, and every inspection from footing through final. We price the project only after those approvals are understood, so the contract reflects the real conditions.

The housing here spans roughly forty years, from 1970s rural-residential homes on acreage to 2010s subdivision construction near the Sunnyside corridor, and the two ends need different work.

The older rural houses were often built in stages, with additions, sunrooms, carports and shops added over decades by different hands. Our first job is an existing-conditions survey: what is bearing, what is properly footed, what is permitted and what is not.

Expect undersized panels, long utility runs, aging wells and septic fields, minimal insulation, original windows, and heating systems well past their service life.

Newer homes near the corridor need none of that and focus on kitchens, primary suites, bonus rooms and outdoor living. What both share is land. Acreage makes a detached shop with finished space, an accessory dwelling unit for family, a wing addition or a large covered outdoor room genuinely practical.

That depends on septic capacity, well flow and county limits on accessory structures, which we confirm before pricing.