About Valley Oak Kitchen and Bath

Valley Oak Kitchen and Bath remodels kitchens and bathrooms in houses and condos around Sherman Oaks, CA. If you're checking us out before you call, here's the plain version. The company is run by John Bissett, who spent years doing full construction builds around Los Angeles before he narrowed it down to kitchens and baths.

On the big builds, a lot of John's time went to permit offices, not job sites. Plans went back and forth, projects stretched on for a year or more, and the owners waited the whole time. In between, some clients just wanted a kitchen or a bathroom redone. Those jobs moved. A room could go from tired to finished in weeks, and the change was big enough that people would stand in the doorway and laugh. That's the work he decided to keep.

It also made sense to him. The kitchen and the bathroom are the two rooms you use every single day, more than any other part of the house. If those two feel right, the whole house feels better. John likes getting them right.

What he kept hearing from homeowners was the same few complaints. The remodeler priced the job from the doorway. The cabinets showed up before the drain was fixed. Tile went onto a wall nobody checked for moisture. The price moved twice, and nobody called back. Valley Oak is set up to fix those, one by one.

The houses make that worse here. The Census Bureau counts 76% of homes in ZIP 91423 as built before 1980, which puts a lot of kitchens and baths past 40 years old. Rooms that age hide galvanized pipe, cast-iron drains and old wiring. Pricing them without looking is a guess, and a $27,143 midrange bath, per the 2025 Cost vs Value report, is too much money to guess at. The same report has that bath recouping 89.6% at resale.

Valley Oak is the same trade run in a different order. First a visit: measure, open things, look. Then the scope goes on paper, trade by trade, with a price. Then a schedule that has the plumber, electrician, tile setter and inspector each showing up when the room is ready for them.

That's slower on day one and faster everywhere after. Some calls end early because of it. A kitchen that needs new doors and a fan, not a gut, gets told so, even though it's the smaller job.

The work is kitchens, baths and the floors and walls around them, in houses and condos. Additions, ADUs, roofing, pools and painting are not on the list. Browse the full service list to see what is.