Alameda County
Craftsman bungalows in the flats, houses on stilts in the hills. Same city, completely different jobs.
Rockridge, Temescal and the Dimond are full of 1910s and 1920s Craftsman homes: box beams, plate rails, built-in buffets, panelled wainscoting and original fir floors. Every ledge collects dust and every one gets skipped by someone working from a generic checklist. We budget for the detail and tell you upfront when a house needs more of it.
Montclair and the upper hills are built into slopes, often with a long exterior stair to the front door and three levels inside. That is real time, and it never appears in a square-footage quote. We price from the layout. Fire season also puts fine ash through vents and window tracks up here, which we clean more often during those weeks.
Condos near Grand Lake and Piedmont Avenue may want a certificate of insurance or a booked elevator. Street parking in the flats is genuinely difficult on some blocks. Neither is a problem when we know in advance; both waste a morning when we do not.
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Yes. In a Craftsman house those are most of the surfaces that matter, and skipping them is what makes a clean look half-done.
Yes, damp with minimal water and no steam. Standing water and steam are what lift the finish and open the seams on old fir.
It is a scheduling detail. Tell us about the block, a driveway or a permit zone and we build the time in rather than arriving late.
Rockridge, Temescal, Grand Lake, Piedmont Avenue, Montclair, the Dimond, the Laurel and the surrounding streets. Text us your ZIP code and we will confirm.
Text us your ZIP code and we'll send a flat price back, usually within the hour and always free.
