VCS Construction and Remodeling builds home additions in Houston, TX. Victor Trey Seiter has been contracting in Houston since 2007 and brings over 20 years of hands-on experience. When your house runs out of room, an addition lets you stay on the lot you already own.
We are a design build contractor, so the plans and the build stay with one contractor. Trey brings an architect and two engineers for the structure, plus interior designers, or he works with yours. Master plumbers and electricians run the rough in trades, and our crew does the sheetrock, cabinets, trim, and paint. We serve homes within about 15 to 20 miles of downtown Houston, inside Loop 610 and out.
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A room addition adds finished space at ground level. Many start as a bedroom the house is missing or a den off the kitchen. A primary suite addition gives you a bedroom and full bath plus the closet space older homes lack. We match the floor height and the roofline so the new rooms read as original.
A second story addition doubles your space without eating the yard. In our market that often means adding a story over a garage or an older bungalow. Our engineers check the foundation and framing first, because the house below has to carry the new load. That check happens before design, not after.
A sunroom addition brings in light without the August heat. We insulate it and tie it into your heating and cooling so the room works in every season. It fits well where a full room addition is more space than you need.
We also expand and rework historic Houston homes. On older bungalows we have done full renovation and expansion work. That included restoring the original wood windows rather than replacing them. An attached addition shares walls with the house while a detached garage apartment stands alone, and we build both.
The foundation under your house shapes the whole job. Older houses in the Heights and Montrose sit on pier and beam. For those we set new piers and level the new floor to the old one. Slab houses get new concrete tied into the existing slab, with the connection detailed by our engineers.
City of Houston permits shape both the budget and the schedule. Plan review needs a lot survey and drawn plans, and the city asks for a deed restrictions form. Houston has no zoning, but Chapter 42 building lines still apply and deed restrictions can be stricter. We check all of it before we draw so the design fits your lot the first time.
Drainage rules matter when the footprint grows. On lots up to 15,000 square feet, the city requires detention once impervious cover passes 65 percent of the lot. New roof area and new concrete both count toward that number. We run this math during design, not after the city flags it.
Flood maps matter on some lots. Grow the building footprint 33 percent or more in a mapped floodplain and Chapter 19 rules apply. That can mean setting the new floor two feet above the 500-year flood level. We pull your flood zone before design starts, because it changes the structure and the cost.
Much of our work sits in the Heights and the streets around it. The blocks there are lined with bungalows from the early 1900s, most on pier and beam. Parts of the Heights are city historic districts, so an addition to a contributing house needs a Certificate of Appropriateness. We prepare the drawings for that review and handle the filing.
Montrose has the same older housing stock on tighter lots. River Oaks runs larger, and deed restrictions there do the work zoning does in other cities. Those restrictions can set deeper setbacks than the city minimum. We read yours before we design so the plan clears both reviews on the first pass.
From downtown we work about 15 to 20 miles out, inside Loop 610 and past it. That range covers Garden Oaks, Oak Forest, Timbergrove, and the East End. It also covers flood prone pockets like Meyerland, where homes have been raised since Harvey. On lots like those, the flood map shapes the addition from the first sketch.
Estimates and design consultations are free. Call (713) 828-3097 and tell us what the house is missing. Trey will look at your lot and your foundation and tell you what they allow. From there the same contractor carries the project from design through construction.
Free, no-obligation estimates across Houston, inside Loop 610 and out.
(713) 828-3097From the first call to the last pass of the rake, here is how it goes.
Tell us about the house and the project. We set a time to come see it, usually within a few days.
Trey looks at the space and the systems in person and talks through the plan. You get a real number before any work starts.
Drawings get done, permits get pulled, and the build starts on a set schedule. Trey reviews progress with you week by week.
Our own crew does the sheetrock, trim and paint, then walks the finished job with you. The project ends when you sign off on it.
Common questions about home additions across Houston, inside Loop 610 and out. Don't see yours? Give us a call and ask.
We remodel kitchens across Houston, from Heights bungalows to postwar ranch homes. One contractor handles design, structure, trades, and finish work on every job.
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We remodel bathrooms across Houston, from 1920s bungalows in the Heights to newer homes outside the Loop. Our master plumbers and our own finish crew take each bath from demo to paint.
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We build custom homes from the ground up on lots across Houston, inside Loop 610 and out. Bring the lot, and our crew carries the build from dirt to finish-out.
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We convert Houston garages into gyms, home offices, man caves, and finished bonus rooms. Free estimates and design consultations at (713) 828-3097.
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We design and build garage apartments and detached ADUs across Houston. Estimates and design consultations are free, so call (713) 828-3097 to start.
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We replace old galvanized supply lines with new PEX, usually in a few days. Then we repair and paint every wall we opened, one contractor start to finish.
View DetailsThe team that opens your walls is the team that closes them. Trades, sheetrock, tile, cabinets, trim and paint all run under one contract, so nothing falls between companies.
Repipes, sewer lines, water heaters and remodel plumbing stay in house. That is rare for a remodeling contractor, and it is why pipe problems do not stall our jobs.
An architect, two engineers and interior designers work with us on plans, or we build from your designer’s drawings. Permits and city inspections are handled for you.
Pier and beam bungalows, slab ranches on clay soil, galvanized pipe, cast iron drains, deed restrictions and flood maps. We have worked these streets since 2007 and plan for all of it.
A kitchen that needs to open up, a bath past its prime, an addition, or pipes that are done? Call or send the form. Trey comes to look at the house in person, and the estimate and design consultation are free.
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