Nook Handyman/Alpharetta
From the townhomes around Avalon and City Center to the twenty-five-year-old houses out toward Windward, we fix the things that have been on the list since spring. Free visit, exact price agreed before anything starts.
Alpharetta is really two markets for repair work, and the jobs split cleanly between them.
The newer side is the townhomes and condominiums that have gone up around Avalon and downtown City Center over the last decade. These houses are not broken, they are unfinished. What they need is mounting and fitting out: televisions on the wall with the cables hidden, floating shelves that hold, closet systems, blinds and curtain rails, and the flat-pack furniture that has been in its boxes in the garage since the move. The plaster is sound. The problem is that nobody has drilled into it yet.
The other side is the established subdivisions, the Windward and Haynes Bridge era houses that went up through the nineties and early two-thousands. Those are now twenty-five to thirty years old, which is precisely the age at which a house starts asking for things. Exterior doors that have dropped on their hinges. Deck boards that have gone soft at the joist. Wood rot in the trim where a gutter has been overflowing quietly for two summers. Original interior doors that stick from May to September and swing freely again in October.
The single most common call we expect from Alpharetta is a door that has stopped closing properly. It is almost never the door. Humidity swells the timber, the house moves a little on the clay, and the strike plate is suddenly in the wrong place by three millimetres. Planing the door is the lazy fix, because come November you have a draughty gap. Adjusting the hinges and moving the strike is the right one, and it takes twenty minutes.
The second is exterior wood. Long hot summers and heavy afternoon storms are hard on decks, fascia, soffit and window trim, and rot always starts somewhere you cannot see. If you can push a screwdriver into a deck rail post, that post is coming out rather than getting painted.
We do not publish hourly rates and we will not quote a number down the phone for a job nobody has looked at. Your handyman comes out, free of charge, reviews the work in front of you, and gives you one exact price for the job. Then they explain how it will be done. When it is finished we walk it with you, in full, before anyone leaves. The price we agree is the price you pay.
No plumbing, no electrical, no HVAC, no gas, no structural work and nothing needing a permit or a licensed trade in Georgia. Plenty of handymen will attempt some of that. We would rather tell you honestly on the visit and point you at someone who does it properly for a living. It costs you nothing to find out.
Tell us what needs doing and we will come and price it, free of charge, at a time that suits you.