Top-Rated Masonry Contractor in Citrus Heights - Done Right the First Time

Citrus Heights incorporated as a city in 1997, but most of the homes here were built decades earlier - the heaviest construction ran through the 1960s and 1970s, filling in what was then the northeastern edge of Sacramento's suburban expansion. That housing stock is now 40 to 60 years old, and at that age, original concrete flatwork, brick chimneys, and masonry garden walls are all approaching or past the point where they need real attention. The city covers about 14 square miles of nearly wall-to-wall single-family homes, and the masonry problems that come with that building era are visible on nearly every block.

The bigger underlying force is the clay soil that sits under most of the Sacramento Valley, including Citrus Heights. According to USDA Web Soil Survey data, expansive clay soils are common throughout this region. Those soils swell when they absorb Citrus Heights' 20-inch annual rainfall in winter and shrink back during the long dry summers. After decades of that cycle, concrete and masonry that sits on or in that soil develops cracks and shifts in ways that just keep coming back if the underlying cause is not considered in the repair approach. Summers that regularly top 100 degrees also accelerate mortar breakdown faster than in milder climates - which is why tuckpointing jobs that would last 25 years in San Francisco may need attention in 15 here.

Citrus Heights is a city of about 87,000 to 90,000 residents in northeastern Sacramento County, bordered by Roseville to the north, Fair Oaks and Folsom to the east, and Carmichael and Sacramento to the south and west. The city is almost entirely residential - 14 square miles of predominantly single-family neighborhoods developed during the postwar suburban expansion. The Sunrise Boulevard corridor, home to the Sunrise MarketPlace shopping area, runs through the center and serves as the main commercial spine around which the neighborhoods are organized. Auburn Boulevard and Greenback Lane are the other main east-west roads most residents use daily.

Most of the housing stock dates from the 1960s and 1970s - one- and two-story ranch and tract homes on modest lots, with stucco or wood siding and attached garages. At 40 to 60 years old, these homes are at the age where concrete flatwork, brick chimneys, and mortar joints all start needing meaningful attention. The neighborhood around Rusch Community Park is one of the well-known family gathering spots in the city, and streets near there represent the kind of established, maintained neighborhood that makes up most of Citrus Heights. We also regularly work in neighboring Fair Oaks to the east and Sacramento to the southwest, covering the full area where these postwar neighborhoods concentrate.