Soledad is a city of about 26,000 people in Monterey County, located in the middle of the Salinas Valley along U.S. Highway 101. The city has a long history - it grew up near Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad, a Spanish mission founded in 1791, and has been continuously settled for well over two centuries. The modern city is a working agricultural community surrounded by fields growing lettuce, broccoli, and wine grapes, with the well-known Arroyo Seco wine region in the hills to the south and west. Most residents work in agriculture, food processing, or commute north to Salinas or south toward King City. The housing stock is a mix of older homes near the city center - some dating to the 1950s and 1960s - and newer subdivisions built in the 1990s and 2000s on the outskirts of town that are now reaching the age where first maintenance is due.
Soledad sits about 30 miles south of Salinas, and homeowners here experience a noticeably more extreme version of the inland valley climate than their counterparts closer to the coast. The summers are genuinely hot, the winters bring freeze-thaw nights that crack unprotected concrete, and the valley winds carry agricultural dust through neighborhoods year-round. Neighbors to the north in Gonzales deal with nearly identical conditions, and we serve that community as part of our regular southern Salinas Valley coverage. Homeowners in Soledad looking for honest concrete flooring work built for the reality of this valley will find that we understand what the local climate demands.