Pest Inspections in Greenfield, CA

Local Context

What a Greenfield WDO Report Finds Depends on Which Side of 1980 the House Was Built

Greenfield has two housing populations and they fail in different ways. The tract homes that carry the city's median build year of 1989, plus the stucco streets added during the 2000s, are slab-on-grade. There is no crawl space to enter, so a Section 1 finding on one of these usually comes from mud tubes on the stem wall, subterranean damage at a garage plate, or fungus damage where planter soil or a sprinkler has kept a wall base wet. Section 2 items here are typically earth-to-wood contact at a fence or gate post, planter beds built up over the weep screed, and sprinklers hitting stucco.

The older part of the city reads like a different market. The Clark Colony blocks, sold at the 1905 land drawing and built out from there, along with the mid-century worker housing that followed, are raised-floor construction over dirt crawl spaces, and many went up before vapor barriers were standard. Under those houses we find subterranean tubes on piers, fungus damage at the sill plate and floor joists, and cellulose debris left behind at construction. Those are the Greenfield reports that carry real Section 1 work.

One thing holds across both. This city is dry for eight months and wet for four, and the damage you can see in July was done in February. Inspecting after the rains — or at least reading the report with the wet season in mind — gives a truer picture of what the structure is doing.