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Where we work
Vacaville is our base. Everything below is within a working distance of it, which matters because the same trades have to reach your house on the same morning, week after week.
Blue Mountain Construction Services Inc works in Vacaville, Fairfield, Suisun City, Dixon, Davis, Napa, Solano County, CA.
The reason a remodeling contractor has a service area at all is not marketing, it is logistics. A remodel needs a plumber, an electrician, a tile setter, a cabinet installer and an inspector to arrive on specific mornings over a period of months. Stretch that too far from the yard and the schedule stops being something anyone can hold to. So the range below is the range where we can actually keep a sequence.
The other reason is jurisdictional. Permit requirements, plan-check turnaround, inspection scheduling and the fee schedule are all set locally. A project in Vacaville goes to the City of Vacaville Building Division. An unincorporated Solano County parcel goes to the county instead, which is a different queue and a different set of forms. Dixon, Fairfield, Suisun City, Davis and Napa each run their own. Knowing which applies to your address, and what it currently means for timing, is part of the consultation rather than something discovered after the drawings are finished.
If you are near the edge of this range, call and ask. The answer depends more on the size of the project than on the mileage: a whole-home renovation justifies a longer drive than a single vanity replacement does.
Relative distance from base
A schematic, not a map. Bar length indicates relative distance out along the corridor from our Vacaville office — it is not to scale and is not a route.
Town by town
What we tend to see in the housing stock, and what it usually means for a remodel there.
Vacaville
Solano County, CAHome base. Browns Valley, Alamo, Padan, Cheyenne, Rocky Hill and the Nut Tree side of town, plus the older ranch stock north of Monte Vista.
Fairfield
Solano County, CATwelve minutes down Interstate 80. Cordelia, Green Valley, Rancho Solano and the mid-century blocks around Central Place.
Suisun City
Solano County, CAWaterfront and Victorian-era housing near Main Street, along with the Peterson Ranch and Lawler Ranch tracts.
Dixon
Solano County, CAAgricultural-edge lots and the newer subdivisions west of Pitt School Road, where additions are usually simpler to site.
Davis
Yolo County, CAOld North Davis and College Park bungalows, plus the 1970s tracts where kitchen walls are almost always load-bearing.
Napa
Napa County, CAOver the hill on Highway 12. Older downtown housing that frequently needs structural review before a layout changes.
Solano County
Solano County, CACounty-wide, including unincorporated parcels where the Solano County Building Division rather than a city department reviews the permit.
What the local housing stock means for your project
Most of what we work on across Solano County falls into three groups, and each one has its own predictable surprises.
Postwar ranch houses have shallow footings, small original electrical services, and interior walls that are load-bearing more often than their thinness suggests. Late-century tract housing is more consistent to work in, but the wall between the kitchen and the family room is very frequently bearing, and truss roofs limit what can be opened up without engineering. Older downtown housing, particularly in Suisun City and Napa, brings previous unpermitted alterations, galvanised supply lines and framing that has been modified more than once.
None of this is a problem, and none of it is unusual. It is simply the reason we survey existing conditions before pricing rather than after, and the reason a written scope of work carries an allowance line for what can reasonably be anticipated in a house of your age and type.
Blue Mountain Construction Services Inc
707 Aldridge Road, Suite B Vacaville, CA 95688- Phone
- (800) 889-2085
- info@sillee.com
- Hours
- Mon–Fri 08:00–17:00 America/Los_Angeles
- Trade
- Residential Remodelers
Tell us the address
Give us the address and the rooms and we will tell you which building department reviews the work, whether a permit is likely, and when we could come out to measure.
Blue Mountain Construction Services Inc · 707 Aldridge Road, Suite B, Vacaville, CA 95688