Siding replacement and repair in El Dorado Hills, CA.

El Dorado Hills is a 2000s community. The ACS 2020–2024 median build year is 2002, with 35% of homes from the 2000s and another 22% built since 2010. That stock is two-story stucco: Serrano north of Highway 50 along Serrano Parkway and Silva Valley Parkway, and Blackstone and Stonebriar south of the freeway off Latrobe Road. Siding calls on these houses are about the wood the builder set into the stucco. Shingle gable panels, board-and-batten under porch roofs, corbels, pot shelves and window boxes rot while the plaster around them stays sound. Foam trim erodes at its joints, and stucco cracks run from window corners and control joints. A whole-house re-side is uncommon on this stock; the job is accent replacement, crack repair and the flashing that let the water in.

The re-side candidates are the original villages. Governors, Saint Andrews, Crown, Ridgeview and Park step up El Dorado Hills Boulevard north of the interchange, laid out by developer Allan Lindsey in the early 1960s. They hold most of the 3% of homes from the 1960s and 8% from the 1970s. The plans are one- and two-story on sloped lots, sided in cedar lap, redwood, T1-11 plywood and hardboard. Crews find hardboard swollen along the bottom course, T1-11 split at the grooves, cedar cupped on the west wall and rafter tails gone soft behind the gutter. A house confirmed to predate 1978 puts scraping and removal under the EPA RRP rule.

North of Green Valley Road, the 1980s and 1990s reorganized Lake Hills Estates into the Lake Forest villages: Waterford, The Summit, Green Valley Hills, Winterhaven, Marina Woods and Windsor Point. Those ridges above Folsom Lake carry many of the 11% of homes from the 1980s and a share of the 20% from the 1990s. The cladding is a mix of early stucco, hardboard lap and wood trim. The lake-facing and west walls take the wind and the afternoon sun. Their siding fails first, and the estimate should price them by elevation instead of averaging the house.

Write the siding scope as three parts: stucco repair, accent replacement and flashing correction, each with its own quantity. Downhill walls on a ridge lot can be three stories from grade, so the staging line belongs in the proposal. Most villages need Design Review Committee or HOA approval before a siding change; the CSD's property-improvement application lists siding by name. The estimate comparison guide shows how to check two bids against the same completed wall.

El Dorado Hills is in Title 24 climate zone 12, at about 770 feet at its center and higher on the ridges above Folsom Lake and Highway 50. Summer highs reach 100°F, and stucco on south and west walls chalks while wood lap cups and the sealant at every window head splits. Winters bring more rain than the valley floor's roughly 18 inches, most of it in atmospheric-river storms between November and March. The foothill ridges take wind that pushes that rain into open joints. NWS Sacramento notes occasional light snow in the foothills. The pattern on siding is simple: sun opens the seal, and the next storm finds it.

The community sits in oak woodland. Blue oak and interior live oak crowd the older villages and the ridge lots, and gray pine shows up on the higher ground. Protected native oaks limit where a lift can set up, and a canopy over the north wall keeps siding damp into spring. Hillside lots move water across the site instead of into it; downhill walls, retaining walls at the foundation and buried weep screeds are where crews find rot on otherwise sound houses. Check the clearance between siding and soil or hardscape on the uphill side before pricing.

The El Dorado Hills Fire Department's hazard mapping includes Moderate, High and Very High designations across parts of the community. The 2025 California Wildland-Urban Interface Code, Title 24 Part 7, took effect January 1, 2026. Where the county applies it to a wall alteration, the replacement cladding, the vents and the eave details fall under it. OSFM's building guidance is the code context; El Dorado County Building Services makes the call for the address. Have the estimate name any listed assembly it proposes, and keep optional hardening on untouched walls as a separate line.

El Dorado Hills is unincorporated, so permits come from El Dorado County Building Services, part of the county's Planning and Building Department, working out of the Placerville office. Ask the county whether the planned siding, trim and sheathing work needs a permit before the crew starts; a like-for-like description is not an automatic exemption there, and an opened wall that shows damaged framing changes the scope.

Before selecting a new siding profile or color, identify the recorded architectural restrictions for the parcel. Some properties use their own association’s committee; specified villages use the El Dorado Hills CSD’s Design Review Committee. The absence of an HOA does not establish CSD jurisdiction. Obtain the applicable submission requirements and approval timing, then coordinate the approved material with the county permit and product order.

For homes in the original villages confirmed to predate 1978, siding removal, scraping, and sanding fall under the EPA's Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule, which requires a certified firm and lead-safe containment. PG&E is the electric utility; if the service mast or meter panel sits in the wall being resided, the utility's clearance rules and a temporary disconnect may enter the schedule. Say so on the site visit and it goes into the scope.

Permit authority: El Dorado County Building Division . Whether a permit or review applies, and who pulls it, is written into the estimate.