Los Angeles County, California
Notes on keeping an LA house in one piece
Los Angeles housing is its own problem set. Plaster over wood lath, decades of settling, a rain season that arrives in three bursts, and a fixture that has been quietly leaking since the last owner. These are the things that come up often enough to be worth writing down.
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What we have written about working on LA houses
The things that come up often enough to be worth writing down, and the details that decide what a job costs here.
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Why we write these
Most of what goes wrong in a house here is specific to here. A wall that is plaster over lath behaves nothing like drywall when you put a bracket in it. A gutter fills with jacaranda and eucalyptus litter instead of autumn leaves, and it fills all year. A door that catches has usually been fine for sixty years while the opening around it moved. Knowing which of those you are looking at is most of the job.
So these are written the way a tradesperson would explain it standing in your hallway. What the thing actually is, what decides whether it is a small fix or a real one, and roughly what it costs in this county. If a piece saves you a call-out, it did its job.
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Across Los Angeles County
What the walls are made of changes street by street in this city, and it changes the job.
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