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Palo Alto's housing stock spans nearly a century of construction. Homes in Professorville date to the early 1900s. Ranch-style homes in Midtown went up in the 1950s and 1960s. Newer infill construction and additions appear on blocks next to homes that have not been touched in decades. Each type calls for different materials, different footing decisions, and in some cases additional review through the City of Palo Alto Historic Resources program for properties in designated historic areas. A contractor who does not know the difference between these situations will give you the wrong estimate and potentially create a permit problem you did not expect.

The clay soils under most of Palo Alto expand and contract with every wet season and dry season, and over years that movement cracks driveways, shifts walkways, and pushes on fence posts. Mature trees in neighborhoods like Crescent Park add another variable: root systems that grow toward fence lines over time and put pressure on posts from below. Addressing both of these factors at installation - using the right footing depth and material choice - is what separates a fence that holds its line for 20 years from one that starts leaning in five.

Palo Alto is a city of about 65,000 people in the heart of Silicon Valley, shaped in large part by its proximity to Stanford University on the city's western edge. The residential neighborhoods north and east of the Stanford campus are among the oldest in Silicon Valley - Professorville, developed in the early 1900s, is one of the first planned residential neighborhoods in California and still has homes from that era. Old Palo Alto and Crescent Park feature large lots with mature trees and a mix of Craftsman bungalows, Spanish Colonial Revival homes, and mid-century ranch houses. South Palo Alto and Midtown are more uniform in character, with postwar ranch homes on smaller lots and increasing infill construction on what was once open yard space.

University Avenue runs through the center of the city as the main commercial street, connecting downtown Palo Alto to the Stanford campus. East of Highway 101 lies the Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve, a large wetland area along the bay and one of the most visited open spaces in the South Bay. The median home value in Palo Alto is among the highest in the country, and most homes here are owner-occupied - meaning homeowners tend to invest in quality work that holds up over decades, not quick fixes. Homeowners in nearby Menlo Park share many of the same property characteristics and we serve both cities from the same crew.