Inside Fairfield homes
Ask anyone who lives here what shapes the housework and they will say the weather. From June to September the valley bakes, windows stay shut, air conditioning runs from mid-morning to well past dark, and the fine dust that blows off the dry ground gets pulled through the system and put back down on every flat surface. Then the Delta wind arrives in the afternoon and does it again. By August the tops of cabinets, the blades of ceiling fans and the return-air grille in the hallway all need real work.
The housing itself is straightforward. Most of the city was subdivided between 1970 and 2005 — single-story ranches near Laurel Creek, two-story tracts through Cordelia and Paradise Valley, larger custom houses out toward Green Valley and Rancho Solano. Slab foundations, attached garages, tile entries, carpet through the bedrooms. Travis keeps a steady flow of families arriving and leaving, so move-in and move-out cleans are a bigger share of the work here than in most cities we serve.
The housing stock in Fairfield
Suburban and relatively new. The bulk is 1,400 to 2,600 square feet on a slab, single-story in the older tracts and two-story from the nineties on, with three or four bedrooms and two or three bathrooms. Carpet dominates the bedrooms, tile or luxury vinyl the wet rooms and entries. Green Valley adds larger custom houses on hillside parcels with more hard flooring. Central air is universal, associations are common in the newer developments, and there is essentially no pre-war stock.