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Waterproofing Services in Hollywood Hills

Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles

Forma Homes delivers waterproofing services across Hollywood Hills and the surrounding hillside neighborhoods of Los Angeles. Hollywood Hills remodeling: view-driven hillside builds and mid-century moderns.

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  • License #1140511
  • Licensed & Insured
  • Serving LA's Westside

What makes waterproofing services different in Hollywood Hills

Hollywood Hills covers the canyons north of Sunset: Laurel, Coldwater, Beachwood, and Outpost Estates. Hillside ordinance applies to almost every parcel. The housing mix is heavily mid-century moderns and contemporary view-driven builds, with plenty of 1950s and 1960s post-and-beam homes. Caissons, retaining walls, fire-zone defensible space, and hillside drainage shape every project.

Hillside parcels in Hollywood Hills carry their own engineering load. Drainage, retaining-wall design, caissons where pools or major additions are part of the scope, and fire-zone defensible-space requirements all shape how a waterproofing services project gets sequenced. We coordinate hillside engineering at the design phase, not at construction.

Hollywood Hills runs its own permitting through LADBS (with hillside ordinance). Plan-check timelines run on a separate clock from LADBS. We've worked through the local department often enough to know what their reviewers flag and what they wave through, so we submit the right drawing set the first time.

Common architecture in Hollywood Hills: Mid-Century Modern, Contemporary, Modern. We design hillside renovations to honor what's already there while bringing systems and finishes up to current code and current standards.

What's Included

  • Schluter Kerdi shower pans, walls, curbs, and niches
  • Exterior foundation membrane with drainage board
  • Traffic-rated deck and balcony coating systems
  • French drains at footings and along hillside lots
  • Retaining wall drainage: perforated pipe, filter fabric, and gravel
  • Below-grade systems for cellars and basements: dimple board and sump pumps
  • 24-hour flood testing before any tile is set
  • Site grading and area drains that move water off the house

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