The neighborhood
Flat ground, wide streets, and the house itself
Fountain Valley sits at about thirty feet above sea level and it is flat nearly everywhere. There are no canyon roads, no hillside driveways and no coastal permit zones to work around, so a full-size truck usually parks in the driveway or at the curb and stays there for the whole job. The grid helps as well. Brookhurst, Euclid, Warner, Edinger, Talbert and Slater run straight and wide, Mile Square Regional Park takes up a full square mile between Edinger and Warner and between Brookhurst and Euclid, and the 405 crosses the middle of the city past the Talbert Avenue office corridor where Hyundai's US headquarters sits. Access is the easy part of a Fountain Valley move.
What slows the day down is the house. The tract plans of that era have narrow hallways, tight L-shaped staircases in the two-story models and original doorways that a modern sectional was never measured for, so the sofa, the armoire and the safe get their own plan before anything is loaded. The exceptions are the planned pockets and townhome tracts, Green Valley and the Fountain Park townhomes across from Mile Square Park among them, where an association sets the rules on shared driveways and guest parking. Tell us which one you are in when you book and we sort the access before the truck leaves.
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