Handyman in College Hills
College Hills is one of San Angelo's older, established neighborhoods — mid-century brick homes, big shade trees and a location close to the center of town. Homes here have character and good bones, but decades of settling and original fixtures mean there's always a list.
What makes College Hills interesting to work on is the construction itself: low-slung ranches and split-levels from the fifties and sixties, built with solid-wood doors, plaster or early drywall, oak floors hiding under carpet, and electrical boxes sized for a lighter era. Being minutes from Angelo State also gives the neighborhood a rental layer, so alongside longtime owners we work for landlords keeping student and faculty houses safe, functional and turned over on schedule.
What College Hills neighbors book most
- Door Repair & Adjustment
- Drywall Repair
- Light Fixture Installation
- Faucet & Toilet Repair
- Interior Painting & Touch-Ups
- Seasonal Home Maintenance
Jobs we handle a lot around College Hills
The work here splits two ways. For owners it is preservation: refitting original doors instead of replacing them, patching plaster properly, and updating fixtures without erasing mid-century character. For the rental layer it is turn season, when each summer brings a wave of make-readys before the fall semester, with patch-and-paint, fan swaps, blind and screen repairs, and the small safety items like detectors and wobbly rails that keep a house lease-ready.
Questions we hear in College Hills
My College Hills home has original fixtures — is it worth updating?
Often, yes. Swapping dated light fixtures and worn faucets is one of the easiest ways to freshen an older home, and we can do most of it on existing wiring and plumbing.
The doors in my older home stick — can you fix that?
That's very common in College Hills. Decades of settling rack the frames a little; we adjust hinges, reset strikes or plane an edge so they close right.
Do you work on plaster walls, or just drywall?
Both. Plenty of College Hills walls are plaster or button board, which cracks and crumbles differently than drywall and punishes shortcut repairs. We fix plaster with the right materials and bridge cleanly where old plaster meets newer drywall, so the patch does not telegraph through the finished paint.
Everything we offer in College Hills
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