How Ashbury Contractors Was Born in Tustin
We started Ashbury Contractors because we kept walking into homes where someone had already been paid and the work wasn’t done right. Not just cosmetic issues. Real problems. A sliding glass door that wouldn’t lock. A window that let water in every time it rained. Homeowners who had spent good money and were now embarrassed to show the room to guests.
The moment that solidified it happened in Tustin, on a street near Peppertree Park. A homeowner had paid another company to replace several windows. The frames were out of square. The caulking was already cracking. They’d been fighting with that company for weeks and getting nowhere. We fixed it, but the whole time we kept thinking: this should never have happened. Someone in our trade took this person’s trust and treated it like a line item.
So we made a decision in 2014. We would build a construction company in Tustin that treated a home the way we’d treat our own. No shortcuts on materials we’d regret later. No leaving a job until it looked right and worked right. No making a customer chase us down for answers. That was the promise then. It’s the same one now.
Our Founder’s Personal Connection to the Construction Trade
The construction trade got into our system early, the way certain smells and sounds never leave you. Sawdust in the air on a hot afternoon. The smell of fresh lumber stacked in a garage. The particular sound a hammer makes when it hits a nail square, that solid thunk that tells you something just locked into place. We learned that before we had any idea it would become a career.
The first real lesson came from watching someone who had been in the trade for decades. He didn’t lecture. He just worked. And when he finished something, he’d run his hand along the edge of it, not to check for flaws, but almost to say hello to the finished thing. That gesture stuck with us. It took years to understand what it meant: the work isn’t done until you’re proud to touch it.
We’ve spent more than a decade since then doing this work in Orange County, and the reason hasn’t changed. Construction is personal. You’re inside someone’s home. You’re cutting holes in their walls, replacing their windows, changing how their house feels to them every day. What gets us out of bed is knowing that at the end of a job, someone is going to stand in their living room and feel a quiet sense of relief. The thing that was broken or drafty or outdated is now right.
If we weren’t doing this, we’d probably still be working with our hands. Maybe furniture restoration. Maybe cabinetry. Something where you can hold the result in front of you at the end of the day. There’s a satisfaction in that kind of work that no desk job ever gave us. This trade lets us have that feeling constantly, and it lets us share it with the people whose homes we work in.
Meet Our Team – The Person Behind Every Job
Ashbury Contractors was founded and is still run by an owner who is on the ground in this work, not managing from a distance. The training came the way it used to in this trade: years of working alongside experienced people, making mistakes early, learning to fix them, and eventually understanding not just how to do a job but why it should be done a certain way. That’s a different kind of knowledge than what you get from a manual.
What separates our team from a corporate franchise operation is that the person responsible for your project is someone who has physically done this work. We know what a proper window installation feels like because we’ve done it hundreds of times, not because we watched a training video. We know what a trim line should look like against a wall because we’ve stared at enough of them to feel when something is off by an eighth of an inch.
On a personal level, we’re the kind of people who keep a neat truck and a neater job site. We believe that leaving a customer’s home cleaner than we found it is part of the job, not a favor we’re doing. Our commitment is simple: when we put our name on a project in Tustin, we treat every window, every door, every opening in that wall as if it were going into our own home. That is not a slogan. It’s the standard we hold ourselves to every day.
Our Promise to Tustin Homeowners
Every promise we make is backed by a policy that has consequences for us if we don’t keep it. That’s the only kind of promise worth making.
- Honest pricing, in writing. We give a written line-item quote before work begins. If the scope changes, we talk about it before anything else happens. No surprises on the final bill.
- Quality parts, named brands. We install products we trust, including ES Windows, ECO Window Systems, and Therma-Tru doors. We’ve seen enough cheap hardware fail in the Tustin heat and the Santa Ana winds to know that the product matters as much as the installation.
- We stand behind the work. If something we installed isn’t right, we come back and make it right. That’s not a marketing promise. It’s the only way to run a business in a community where your next customer lives three streets over from your last one.
Our Credentials
Here’s what you should know when you hire us to work in your home:
- State-licensed. Every pro working under our name is required to hold the license their state requires. We don’t skip this step, and you should never hire someone who does.
- Insured and bonded. We carry the coverage that protects your property and our team while we’re on your job site.
- Years of local experience. We’ve been serving Orange County homeowners for more than a decade, and we’ve worked on homes across Tustin, North Tustin, Santa Ana, Orange, and the surrounding communities.
- A strong local reputation. Our growth has come from neighbors telling neighbors about us. The bulk of our work is referral work, which is the only review system that really matters.
A license matters because it means someone has verified that we know what we’re doing before we ever step foot in your house. Insurance matters because construction involves risk, and you shouldn’t have to bear any of it. And a local reputation matters because a company that does good work in the same community for years is a company that plans to keep being held accountable for that work.
Rooted in Tustin
Tustin isn’t just where our office is. It’s where we live, where we shop, and where we run into our customers at the grocery store. We know the older homes near Old Town Tustin, the ranch-style houses that need thoughtful window replacements. We know how the afternoon sun hits homes in Tustin Ranch. We’ve worked on properties near Tustin High and down toward the Marketplace.
When we drive through this city, we can point to our work. That’s the best kind of advertising there is, and it’s also the most honest. Every home we’ve touched in Tustin is a standing promise that we’re still here, still accountable, and still showing up.
Written by the Owner & Founder at Ashbury Contractors, serving Tustin and Orange County since 2014. Call (833) 467-4091 to schedule your free written estimate.