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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.
What a Citrus Heights build has to deal with.
Every area we work in has its own version of the same problem. This is ours here.
Sixty years of accumulated decisions.
Concrete poured in stages, irrigation added in patches, a shed on a slab nobody wants, 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.
Modest lots reward layout over ornament.
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. Overcrowding a small yard is the most common mistake we get called in to fix.
Mature trees are worth keeping.
The shade on an established lot here is worth more in July than anything you could plant to replace it. We design around what is worth keeping and are honest about what is not.
Older stock, mature trees, and everything already buried.
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 is full of things nobody documented: 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.
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. 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.
The compensation is the trees. Fifty-year-old canopy is worth more than anything that can be planted to replace it, and it 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, and a trench routed around a mature tree costs far less than the tree does.
Smaller lots, and what that does to a design.
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 therefore what method the work uses. 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, and leaving it until the end is how a good layout acquires a bad corner.
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.
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.
Yes — demolition, haul-off, regrade and rebuild is a normal starting point here.
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