Building owners, HOAs & commercial properties
The Exterior Stops Being a Recurring Cost
You are not building this property — you are responsible for it. The exterior is a line item that comes back every few years, a contractor to chase each time, and a complaint from whoever lives or trades behind it. Aluminum is how that line item ends: powder-coated rather than painted, non-combustible, fabricated and installed by one team that you hold to one contract.
Commercial building owners
What you are deciding
Whether to keep paying for the exterior every few years, or to spend once and take the line item off the budget.
What we put on your side of it
Powder-coat does not need redoing on a cycle, so the repaint stops recurring and the maintenance reserve stops absorbing it. One contract covers fabrication and installation, which means no gap between a supplier and an installer for a defect to live in. And the property shows better the day after than it did the day before — the same argument, from the value side rather than the cost side.
Retail & shops
What you are deciding
How the frontage looks to someone walking past, how secure it is when you are closed, and how many trading days the work costs you.
What we put on your side of it
Storefront gates, security bars and perimeter in the same architectural aluminum as the rest of the building, custom-measured rather than cut from stock sizes — so security does not have to look like security. Our own crew installs it, which is the only reason we can commit to a schedule around your hours rather than around a subcontractor's.
HOA boards & community managers
What you are deciding
Not a preference — a fiduciary duty. The reserve study says the component is due, the board takes at least three qualified bids, verifies licence, insurance and bonding, and checks references with other boards before it awards.
What we put on your side of it
We are built to survive that process rather than to shortcut it. We are the manufacturer, so the bid is ours end to end and there is no subcontractor whose credentials the board has to chase separately. We have been doing this in Southern California since 1994 and can point boards at communities we have finished. And the reason it belongs in a reserve study at all is that it converts a recurring maintenance item into a one-time capital improvement — which is the argument that gets it funded.
One investment, and it raises what the property is worth.
Why us
- Fabricated and installed in-houseOne contract, one team, no subcontractor gaps.
- Four counties, at scaleLA, Ventura, Orange and San Diego, from one Canoga Park floor.
- Powder-coated, never paintedThe repaint line item comes off the budget permanently.
Why now
Fire-code requirements are reaching multi-family and HOA properties, and insurers are pricing combustible exteriors accordingly. Meanwhile every deferred repaint compounds. Specifying non-combustible aluminum now converts a recurring maintenance cost into a one-time capital improvement — before it becomes a mandated one.
Architects, builders & project managers
Your Design. Built in Aluminum, as Specified.
You are building something that does not exist yet, and every handoff between the drawing and the site is a chance to lose it. There are no handoffs here: profiles are cut to your drawing on our own floor in Canoga Park, and the people who fabricate it are the people who install it. Walk the shop whenever you want to see it happen.
Architects & designers
What you are deciding
Whether the detail survives contact with a fabricator working to stock sizes and an installer who has never seen your set — and whether the product can be documented well enough to specify at all.
What we put on your side of it
Custom profiles, spans and finishes, made to the drawing rather than to a catalogue. The full profile and finish range is published in the catalog so the decision can be made while the set is being drawn rather than after a sample request. And because it is aluminum, it is non-combustible — which is increasingly what puts it in a Southern California set at all now that Zone-Zero rules are adopted.
General contractors & builders
What you are deciding
How many trades this becomes, who is accountable when something does not fit, and whether the schedule holds.
What we put on your side of it
One trade. We fabricate it and we install it, so there is no supplier to blame an installer and no installer to blame a supplier — the accountability does not split, because the company does not. Four counties from one Canoga Park floor, which is why a multi-unit railing package is one schedule rather than several.
Project managers, estimators & procurement
What you are deciding
Whether the number you put in the package is the number that gets built. Drawings, specifications and takeoffs define what gets priced — and what gets missed — and you carry the lead-time risk inside your own estimate.
What we put on your side of it
You are quoting the manufacturer directly, not a dealer marking up someone else's extrusion, so the price you are given is the price of making the thing. Profiles, spans and finishes are documented rather than described, which is what makes a takeoff repeatable. And when the scope changes, a change is a conversation with the floor rather than a re-order from a supplier.
Specify it with confidence. The detail you drew is the detail that gets built.
Why us
- Cut to your drawingDetailed at every step, sized to your set, in architectural aluminum and powder-coated to last.
- A floor you can walkCanoga Park fabrication, not an overseas lead time.
- Same team fabricates and installsCAD and specification support written into your set.
Why now
California's Zone-Zero rules are now adopted, which puts non-combustible aluminum into more of your sets than it used to be. No subcontractor chain between your drawing and the install. Specify Mulholland early and you get all of it — lasting results, the finish you drew, and every requirement met, in one product.
Everything we build, at project scale
The same nine product lines as the residential side — specified, quoted and installed for a building rather than a house.
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