Cleaning homes in Morgan Hill
Drive up into Jackson Oaks and the road narrows, the lots widen and the houses start looking out over the valley. Those properties come with long gravel or decomposed-granite driveways, and in a dry summer the fine tan dust from them reaches the back of the house. Entry tile, hallway baseboards and the top edge of every door frame collect it. Paradise Valley on the western side has the same problem from the opposite direction.
Down on the flat, the subdivisions built since the late 1990s around Cochrane are conventional and comfortable: two-story, four bedrooms, tile downstairs, carpet upstairs, an association on the newer phases. What most of them share with the acreage properties is water. Local supply is hard and many households run a softener, and where a softener has lapsed the mineral scale on glass and fixtures builds within a season.
The housing stock in Morgan Hill
The median house is younger than most of the county, since a large share of the stock went up after 1990. Typical is 1,900 to 2,800 square feet over two floors, with a three-car garage, tile through the entry and kitchen, carpet on the upper level. The rural parcels are a different animal: single-level ranch houses, barns and detached shops on one to five acres, no association, often a well and a septic system. Air conditioning runs constantly, so return-air grilles and fan blades need attention.