What Mountain View is like to work in
Castro Street and the blocks behind it hold the oldest housing in town: 1910s and 1920s bungalows with porches, picture rails and floors that have been refinished more than once. Cuesta Park and Waverly Park are bigger and later, with lawns and driveways. Monta Loma is Eichler and Mackay country, flat-roofed mid-century houses where the living room is a glass wall and the hallway is four feet wide.
Then there is the newer half of the housing supply. Along El Camino Real and toward the north end of the city, thousands of apartments and podium condos have been added since 2010. Those units are compact, hard-floored, and cleaned to a lease standard rather than a family standard, which is a different brief entirely. We do both, and we ask which one you want before quoting.
Inside a typical Mountain View home
Single-family stock clusters in two eras: pre-1930 bungalows near downtown at 900 to 1,400 square feet, and 1950s to 1960s ranch and Eichler tracts at 1,200 to 1,800. Both sit on slabs or shallow crawlspaces with no basement. The rest of the city is apartments and condos, many built after 2010, where units are 600 to 1,100 square feet, entirely hard-floored, and reached through a lobby, a fob and a lift. Bay fog keeps humidity up, so bathroom fans and grout matter.