Raleigh Hills Home Remodeling & Additions

Raleigh Hills, nestled in Portland’s coveted West Hills, features established luxury homes with outstanding remodeling potential. Masters Construction delivers expert renovations that modernize these well-built properties with updated layouts, luxury finishes, and structural improvements. Every project starts with architectural design and structural planning, so you can walk the design before construction begins.

Raleigh Hills homes often benefit from thoughtful additions and structural updates. We design and build expansions that complement existing architecture, improve flow, and add valuable living space.

Residential permits here are issued by Washington County Building Services for unincorporated addresses, with City of Beaverton or City of Portland review where a parcel has been annexed. The first thing we confirm is which office owns your lot. Interior kitchen and bath remodels inside the existing footprint typically clear review in about two to four weeks.

• Additions, structural work and second stories generally run six to twelve weeks. They require engineered drawings and a planning review for setbacks, height and lot coverage. Raleigh Hills sits right against the Portland city line near Bridlemile, so confirming the jurisdiction before drawing is not a formality here.
• Neighbouring streets can be reviewed by different offices with different submittal standards and review times. Sloped parcels toward the Bridlemile border may add a grading or geotechnical review when foundations, retaining walls or excavation are involved. Masters Construction runs the entire track: measured existing-conditions drawings, construction documents, and structural and where needed geotechnical engineering coordination.
• We handle the submittal, written responses to plan-review comments, and every inspection from footing through final, so you never chase a correction notice or schedule an inspector yourself. Because we price the project only after design and engineering are complete, the permit set and the contract describe the same building.
• That is what keeps a Raleigh Hills project on schedule once demolition starts.

Raleigh Hills is mid-century, built largely in the 1950s and 1960s, with ranches, split-levels and daylight-basement homes making up most of the stock. These houses remodel well and reward a thorough approach.

The framing is typically sound and the roof forms are simple. Opening a compartmentalised main floor is generally a question of an engineered beam and a clean load path to the foundation. Behind the walls the pattern repeats from house to house.

Panels are undersized, often 60 to 100 amps, with galvanized or early copper supply piping, minimal wall insulation, and original single-pane or early aluminum windows. Unbolted mudsills are common too, and in pre-1980 homes lead paint and asbestos require licensed abatement before demolition.

Because the same issues recur, we can scope and budget them accurately instead of hiding behind a vague contingency.

The daylight basements are the underused asset. With egress windows, moisture management and proper insulation, they become bedrooms, an office or a guest suite at a lower cost per square foot than building an addition.