Room Additions & Framing
Bedroom and family-room additions, ADUs, garage conversions and structural repair on Fontana's older stock. Permits run through the City of Fontana Building & Safety Division. General building and framing →
Service Area — San Bernardino County
General Contractor in Fontana, CA
Tad's Construction Inc. is a licensed California contractor working throughout Fontana — room additions, concrete and foundations, grading and drainage, retaining walls, patio covers and swimming pool construction. Our office in Eastvale is about twenty minutes from most Fontana addresses, so site visits and written estimates cost you nothing.
Construction Services in Fontana
What We Build Here
Three CSLB classifications under one roof — general building, landscape and site work, and swimming pools. On a Fontana property that usually means one crew and one contract instead of three.
Concrete, Retaining Walls & Drainage
Foundations, driveways, flatwork, CMU and block retaining walls, and grading that moves water off the lot rather than against the slab. Concrete and drainage →
Swimming Pool Construction & Remodel
New gunite pools, full replaster and tile, deck replacement and equipment upgrades — including the aging plaster and 1970s equipment common in north and central Fontana. Pool construction and remodel →
Patio Covers & Hardscape
Shade structures, alumawood and solid-roof covers, outdoor kitchens and hardscape built to survive Fontana's summer heat load and Santa Ana wind exposure.
What We Design For
Conditions Particular To Fontana
Lytle Creek Wash Ground
Much of north Fontana sits on the alluvial fan below Lytle Creek. Cobble and coarse granular fill turn up constantly in footing excavation, and it changes how a foundation gets designed and priced. We dig test holes before we quote a number.
Two Very Different Housing Stocks
Post-war tracts along the Route 66 corridor and central Fontana carry original framing, dated panels and undersized footings. Sierra Lakes and south Fontana are newer engineered pads. The same scope prices differently across those two.
Santa Ana Wind Exposure
The Cajon Pass funnels wind straight down over Fontana. Patio covers, shade structures and fencing get uplift-rated connections here, not the minimum hardware that would pass elsewhere.
Heat, Concrete & Pool Equipment
Long triple-digit stretches change how concrete is placed and cured and shorten the life of pool equipment and irrigation. We schedule pours around the heat rather than through it.
Neighborhoods & Nearby
Around Fontana
North Fontana & Sierra Lakes
Newer master-planned tracts with engineered pads and small rear yards. Most work here is rear-yard build-out — pools, covers, hardscape and the drainage to support them.
Central Fontana & Route 66
Older single-storey stock on larger lots. Additions, structural repair, foundation work and full pool rehabilitation are the common scopes.
South Fontana & Jurupa Hills
Grade becomes a factor against the hills. Retaining and drainage get designed as one system rather than as two separate scopes.
Rialto, Bloomington, Colton & Rancho Cucamonga
We work the whole corridor either side of Fontana. See the wider Inland Empire service area, or our Corona page.
Building In Fontana?
Send the address and the scope — site visits and written estimates are free. Tad's Construction Inc. holds CSLB licence #1143857 (B-1, C-27, C-53) and is registered for public works as CAGE 236L4. Review our full service list, see recent projects, or read about our Eastvale home base.