Outdoor construction in Citrus Heights.
Citrus Heights is largely post-war housing on modest lots, which makes it renovation territory — and the work is usually as much about removal as it is about building.
Established homes, and everything already in the ground.
A one-call locate marks the utility-owned services and nothing on your side of the meter, so private lines are found by probing and by asking.
Concrete poured in stages, irrigation added in patches, a shed on a slab that has outlived its use, and planting that outgrew its space two decades ago. Getting it back to a clean grade is the first real move on most of these yards.
Citrus Heights is largely 1960s and 1970s housing, and that is the most useful single fact about building here. The gardens have been landscaped before — sometimes three times — so the ground holds a few things nobody wrote down: an abandoned irrigation system, a former pool that was filled rather than removed, an old patio buried under six inches of soil, a soakaway, a clothesline footing, a septic tank from before the sewer arrived.
This is why demolition on an older lot is priced honestly or not at all: what is under the visible layer decides the excavation, and a base built on top of an unremoved slab or a filled pool is a base that will settle differentially no matter how well the top is built.
And then there are the trees.
The shade on an established lot here is worth more in July than anything you could plant to replace it. Fifty-year-old canopy is worth designing around rather than through.
Roots in the top few feet spread well past the canopy, so paving that must cross a root zone is better built on grade than by excavating through it. We design around what is worth keeping and are honest about what is not.
A trench routed around a mature tree costs far less than the tree does.
Smaller lots, designed to live larger.
Lots here are generally tighter than in the newer Placer tracts, which makes two things matter more. Access, because a narrow side yard determines whether machinery reaches the back at all. And sightlines, because on a smaller garden every element is visible from every other one — there is nowhere to put the ugly necessary things.
Where the bins, the pool equipment, the AC condenser and the storage actually go is a design decision on a small lot, so they get placed on the plan rather than wherever is left at the end.
On a smaller yard the win comes from how the space is divided and how you move through it, not from how much gets put in it. Restraint is what makes a small yard feel generous, and restoring it is what we are most often called in to do.
Who signs it off.
Citrus Heights has its own building division. Structures, walls above four feet, gas and electrical are permitted through the city, and we file the submittal.
Citrus Heights sits in Sacramento County. We pull the permits and meet the inspector on site.
What we build in Citrus Heights.
From one patio to a whole property. There is no minimum job.
- Full backyard builds
- Front yards & curb appeal
- Side yard conversion
- Retaining walls & terracing
- Concrete, pavers & masonry
- Drainage & grading
- Pool decks & spa surrounds
- Covered patios & pergolas
- Irrigation & low-voltage lighting
- Turf, sod & planting
- Commercial & multi-family grounds
Citrus Heights, specifically.
- Is my lot too small to be worth it?
- No. Some of the most satisfying work we do is a small yard laid out properly. We take projects from a single patio up to a whole property.
- Can you remove old concrete and start clean?
- Yes — demolition, haul-off, regrade and rebuild is a normal starting point here.