El Dorado Hills is a hillside suburb east of Folsom Lake, and its housing comes in two broad kinds. Hillside neighborhoods such as Crescent Ridge Village and Winterhaven Village have larger custom homes, often with view decks and several levels. Newer planned sections such as Malby Crossing have closer-set homes on flatter ground.
That difference shows up on almost every job. A hillside custom home means more stairs, more square footage and more height outside, which affects everything from a regular cleaning to gutter and roof work. In the planned sections, homes are newer and more compact, and the two-story layouts usually put tile downstairs and carpet up.
Sitting further into the foothills than the valley cities, the town gets more oak and pine debris through the year. It lands in gutters, on decks and driveways, in window tracks and on solar panels, and the dry season adds dust on top.
- Hillside custom homes: more levels, stairs and exterior height
- Planned sections: newer, closer-set, more likely to have solar
- Oak and pine debris all year, plus dry-season dust
Crews come out from Sacramento on Highway 50, about 30 minutes each way, and every address in ZIP 95762 is covered.