Detail-driven remodels with responsive, reliable care.
Happy Bay Construction is an Oakland general contractor praised for full bathroom and kitchen remodels and other renovations. Clients note high-quality work, precise attention to detail, thorough scoping, and proactive communication. The team is reliable, completes projects on schedule with fair quotes, and offers design input plus recommendations for specialists, all while protecting living spaces.
66 Franklin St, Oakland, CA 94607, USA
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Full-gut renovations including plumbing, electrical, tiling, and custom fixtures for stunning, functional spaces.
Complete kitchen overhauls with high-quality cabinetry, countertops, and modern appliances for a seamless upgrade.
Expert foundation repairs and replacement, plus durable flooring installations to ensure structural integrity and style.
Professional drywall installation, repair, and finishing touches like screwless wallplates for a polished look.
Tailored woodworking solutions, including built-in frames and baseboards, to match your home's unique design.
Comprehensive oversight from scoping to completion, with responsive updates and coordination of specialists.
Overall rating
Joe Bryan
Highly recommend Happy Bay Construction! Eshel is excellent to work with. He is thorough in his scoping and extremely diligent in following up to make sure his team has delivered quality work. We've brought them back for many more projects small and large since our first bathroom remodel, always happy customers!
Brian Goodman
We did a full remodel of multiple bathrooms and kitchen with Happy Bay Construction, and it has been an amazing experience from start to finish. The team delivers high-quality work with great attention to detail. They were incredibly responsive to every question that came up during the project and had excellent recommendations for other specialists — from design to glass and beyond. Beyond his excellent problem-solving skills, you can tell Eshel genuinely cares about his customers and their happiness. He has always come through for us on every question and request — and coming from two engineers, we had a lot. Really a fantastic experience all around. We couldn’t recommend Happy Bay Construction more highly.
Melanie Polin Waxman
We used Happy Bay Construction to replace the foundation of our shed and replace the flooring. Working with Happy Bay Construction was such an enjoyable experience and Eshel was great to work with. He was always responsive via phone or email and every day would give us an update on the project. While it was a smaller project, everything ran on time and we are extremely happy with the end result. We would definitely use Eshel and Happy Bay Construction for future projects.
Leanne Ringquist
Happy Bay Construction was the perfect choice for our full-gut bathroom reno! We had a strict deadline and budget (baby on the way) and Eshel and his team knocked it out of the park- no unexpected delays or upcharges, reliable crew daily, and they finished 95% of the work in three weeks! We only have one bathroom and the crew was super gracious in putting our toilet back in place as soon as possible, even if they had to take it out again to tile, etc. Eshel did a great job checking in and keeping us updated, as well as being accommodating for small changes. The crew was super respectful and careful to protect the other spaces in our home. Even so, our porch paint took a bit of a beating durning the demo, no problem, unprompted Eshel offered to color match & paint the whole thing. So nice! Not to mention, my bathroom is BEAUTIFUL! I'm obsessed! They did a really great job and the experience was actually smooth and stress free. Do yourself a favor and hire them for your project!
Aniruddh Chaturvedi
We used Happy Bay Construction to fully renovate our main bathroom, replace a few fixtures and vanity in our half bathroom, and installing new drywall. Our quest to get the bathroom renovated began over 10 months ago when we reached out to over 15 contractors for estimates. Different contractors brought up different things. The estimates were all over the place. Some were overt in their salesmanship. After talking to a few contractors, we developed a framework for what questions to ask to probe whether they're actually good, see what things they bring up about what would make the project complicated, etc. Eshel and his brother impressed us by bringing up almost everything others mentioned, and being very thorough about taking measurements etc. He provided a fair quote (middle of the pack) and was willing work around our schedule and start the renovation 6 months later. The renovation itself (demo, plumbing, electrical, drywall, countertop, shower glass installation) all went as planned. The workers were great and respectful. What I appreciated with Eshel is that he was very accommodative and did not nickel+dime us. Screwless wallplates? Of course! Baseboards to match the rest of the house? No problem. Medicine cabinet doesn't fit inside the wall? No worries, we'll build you a wooden frame from scratch. Downstairs bathroom toilet was loose? Let me have my guy bolt it for you for free. Stuff like that. He provided good feedback on design choices (for e.g., a handle on the shower door will look way better than a towel bar) and tradeoffs we needed to make. The finishing touches took longer than expected to finish, because there's just so many things to take care of... but it's also because we have a very keen eye for the details. There were a few installation-related issues afterwards, but Eshel sent his guys as many times as was needed (and even paid for a replacement part because of a worker issue) until the bathroom was perfect. Lastly, Eshel was very responsive over text, including with our custom woodworker, who said "Eshel was a pleasure to work with and despite some scheduling complications, he and his team stayed on top of all the issues". tl;dr – Eshel and Happy Bay were wonderful to work with, and we're trying to figure out other home projects that they can help us with, just as an excuse to work with Eshel and team again in the future! :)
