Handyman in Garner

An older town with new edges

Garner is two different jobs depending on which street you are on.

The established neighborhoods — Vandora Springs, Forest Hills, the streets around downtown — are largely 1960s through 1980s ranches and split-levels. Houses of that age are past the point where anything original is still original. Interior doors have dropped on their hinges, light fixtures and ceiling fans are on their second or third generation, and the drywall has finished moving, which means settlement cracks can be taped and finished permanently rather than filled and left to reopen.

South and east of that, along the corridors out toward Cleveland and Clayton, the housing is new. Those calls are the opposite: not repair but installation. Blinds in houses that came with none, TV walls, shelving, accent walls in rooms that were handed over as blank drywall.

What comes up most here

Drywall repair and interior painting lead, which is what you would expect in a town where a large share of the housing is thirty to sixty years old. Deck and porch work is close behind — decks built in the 1990s are now at the age where boards go soft and railings loosen at the post.

The feature-wall work tends to come from the newer south side, where ceilings are higher and the rooms are large enough to carry it.

Getting a price

Photos and a list. Most Garner jobs can be quoted without a visit, and it is worth sending everything at once rather than the one item that prompted you to get in touch.