As-Built Documentation FAQs

Each package includes site verification, property research, and a 7-10 page plan deliverable. Depending on the project that typically covers floor plans, exterior elevations, sections, ceiling and roof plans, and 3D perspectives. A site plan is available as an add-on. We confirm the scope with you before we mobilize so nothing on the set is a surprise.

With both instruments, on every set. We scan the building with LiDAR and fly the roof and site with a drone, then take a full site measurement. The scan gives us geometry no tape can practically reach, and the site measurement verifies it, so the drawings are checked against the building twice rather than trusted from one pass.

No, but someone needs to provide access. We coordinate directly with tenants, property managers, or a lockbox. Our own field techs cover Monterey County (Samuel and Thomas), San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties (Thomas), and Ventura and Los Angeles counties (Dustin), so scheduling is usually a matter of days rather than weeks.

For a typical single-family home, expect the field visit within about a week of booking and the drawing set roughly a week after that. Larger or multi-building sites take longer, and we give you a date in writing before we start.

PDF as standard, with the native CAD or Revit file available on request. If your architect or engineer needs to build on top of our set, tell us up front and we will deliver in the format their office works in.

We can start from them, but we do not trust them without verification. Old permit sets and listing plans are frequently wrong, and every downstream drawing inherits that error. We field-verify and correct rather than redraw on faith.

Yes. Property research is part of every package. We pull what the county has on file, meaning permit history, recorded plans and assessor data, so you know what was permitted before you design against it. Records vary a lot in quality between Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Ventura and Los Angeles counties, and they are often thinnest in the unincorporated areas such as Big Sur, Cambria, Montecito and Topanga, where we flag the gaps we find.