MASACO Construction is a woman-led general contracting, remodeling, and development firm headquartered in Plano. Founders Sara Bannat and Mahmoud Abu Saad started Roof Raiders & Co., a Plano roofing company, in 2022, and MASACO is where they build everything else: additions, structural remodels, and multi-trade projects across DFW. Because we’re based here, we know the Plano plan types, the HOA covenants, and the City of Plano inspection process from working inside them. Our general contracting service page explains the service in full; this page is about Plano.
When a Plano project needs a general contractor.
Not every project does. Replacing a vanity or repainting the upstairs is trade work you can hire directly. A general contractor earns their place when 4 things start stacking up: several trades that depend on each other, a structural change that needs an engineer, a permit with an inspection sequence, and an HOA that wants to see drawings before you start.
A Kings Ridge homeowner who wants the kitchen wall open, the primary bath rebuilt, and new windows is looking at framing, electrical, plumbing, HVAC, drywall, tile, cabinetry, glass, and painting, plus a structural engineer, a city permit, and an ACC submittal. Someone has to own the sequence. That’s the job.
Additions, structural changes, and conversions we run in Plano.
The projects that most often need a GC here fall into a few groups. Rear additions off a 2-story in Russell Creek or Ridgeview Ranch, where the new foundation ties to an existing, often post-tensioned slab. Load-bearing wall removal in Hunters Glen and Whiffletree plans, where the kitchen wall carries second-floor joists. Garage conversions in East Plano ranches around Park Forest and Los Rios, where the slab sits lower than the house floor and needs a transition, insulation, and conditioned air. First-floor suites carved from formal living and dining rooms in Prestonwood and Willow Bend, with new plumbing cut into the slab.
Each of these is 6 to 10 trades working in a strict order. If you’re weighing a room-by-room rebuild rather than a single addition, see whole-home remodeling in Plano.
Coordinating trades in a slab-on-grade brick house.
Nearly every Plano home from the 1970s through the 1990s sits on a concrete slab with a brick veneer exterior, and that shapes how the trades line up. Any drain relocation means concrete is cut before framing starts and poured back before flooring. Post-tension cables have to be located before the saw touches the slab. Brick openings for new windows or doors need steel lintels set before the window arrives, and brick matching on a 1985 house takes lead time. The attic carries most of the HVAC and water supply, so the mechanical contractor and the plumber need the framing done and the electrician not yet started.
Our job as GC is to write that sequence down before demo, hold each trade to it, and catch the conflicts on paper instead of in your kitchen. If a kitchen is the center of your project, see kitchen remodeling in Plano.
HOA architectural review and Heritage Commission submittals.
Most Plano subdivisions carry covenants with an architectural control committee. The ACC generally doesn’t care what you do inside, but exterior work goes in front of it: additions, enlarged or new windows, exterior doors, changes to masonry, and paint color. We read your covenants during design, prepare the submittal with elevations, a site plan when the footprint changes, and material samples, and track the committee’s response so approval lands before the exterior phase begins.
Homes in the downtown Plano historic district around 15th Street, near the Douglass Community, also fall under the Heritage Commission for exterior changes. We prepare that package as well.
The City of Plano inspection sequence, handled.
Texas has no statewide general contractor license. Cities register contractors instead, and we’re registered where we work. Permits run through the City of Plano Building Inspections Department. On a typical structural remodel, the inspections fall in this order: underground plumbing if the slab is cut, framing once beams and posts are set, then electrical, plumbing, and mechanical rough-in before any drywall goes up, insulation, and final. An addition adds a foundation inspection before the pour. We schedule each inspection, meet the inspector on site, and don’t close a wall until the work behind it is signed off.
One project manager, one written record.
Every project follows the same process. It starts with a consultation and site walk, where we get into the attic, look at the slab, and read the covenants. Then we design in 3D, including the exterior elevations the ACC will see, so you’re approving the real thing. Your fixed-scope proposal lists every trade, carries allowances for selections you haven’t finalized, and states that any change is priced in a written change order you sign before the work happens.
From demo to final, one project manager runs the job and sends a written update with photos every week covering what was done, what’s next, and which inspections are scheduled. At the end we walk the project together, build a punch list, complete it, and hand you a care guide for the finishes and systems we installed. The full sequence is on our process page. We run the same projects in Tarrant County, covered under general contracting in Fort Worth, and everything we do in this city is on the Plano service area page.
If your Plano project has outgrown a single trade, book a consultation and we’ll walk the house with you, tell you which permits and approvals it needs, and put the whole sequence in writing.
