Los Angeles County, California
Small handyman jobs in Glendale
Small handyman jobs in Glendale, CA, where the 1920s houses have plaster walls and the apartments along Central and Glenoaks have drywall. The job is the same and the anchor is not. Send the list and get a price before work starts.
The price in writingAgreed before anything is scheduled
One visit, several jobsThe drive costs the same either way
No surprise when we arriveThe number holds unless the wall says otherwise
Across Los Angeles CountyFrom the Valley to the South Bay
What goes on the list
The jobs, and what they look like done
Most visits are several of these at once, and the drive costs the same either way.
Much of Glendale’s housing is the sixties apartment belt along Central and Glenoaks. The pre-war houses on the hills and the mid-rises downtown are the exceptions, and each one changes the hardware before it changes anything else.
Glendale jobs and the ranges they fall in
These come from our TV mounting, drywall repair, ceiling fan and gutter clearing pages, and your list gets a firm price before anything is booked.
- TV on a sixties drywall wall$150–$300into studs at standard spacing
- TV on Adams Hill or Rossmoyne plaster$250–$450plate spanning two studs
- Batch of nail and anchor holes$150–$300for the visit, filled and spot-painted
- Fan where a light fixture was$250–$450with a box that can carry a fan
- Two-story or hillside gutter clear$250–$450oak and eucalyptus litter bagged and hauled
Three walls in one city
The garden apartments and stucco boxes along Central, Glenoaks, Kenneth and the Verdugo corridor are drywall over wood studs. A stud finder reads true there, and a patch takes compound and texture and disappears. Watch the ceiling, though, because a plain lighting box won’t carry a fan.
The 1920s Spanish and Craftsman houses in Adams Hill, Rossmoyne and Vista del Valle are plaster over wood lath, and their frames have had a century to settle, so doors catch at the top corner. Downtown, around Brand and Central, the mid-rise and podium buildings are metal studs and concrete. A post-tensioned slab there is a stop-and-ask before anyone drills.
Canyon streets and apartment garages
Chevy Chase Canyon, Verdugo Woodlands and Whiting Woods are the part of Glendale with yards, gates and gutters of their own, on narrow streets with steep driveways and nowhere obvious for a van. A two-story fascia needs somewhere to stand a long ladder, so describe the access. Down in the apartment belt it is street parking or a tuck-under spot, and one visit for everything on the list beats coming back for the second hinge.
Work outside a Glendale handyman visit
When a job reaches $1,000, or needs a permit, or is one piece of a bigger project, it belongs with a licensed contractor, and we’ll tell you that up front.
- Electrical past a fixture swap, from a new outlet behind the TV to a breaker that keeps tripping.
- Tree work in the canyons, roofing, and anything structural.
- Sanding paint in the pre-war houses or the fifties stock without a certified renovator.
And if a job grows once we’ve seen it, we stop and say so before going further, at no cost to you.
Before you send it
- Cross streets: Kenneth and Glenoaks is a different job from Chevy Chase Canyon, with a different wall and a much longer ladder.
- Pre-war house, sixties apartment or downtown mid-rise, if you know which.
- A photo or two, added to the form.
Send us the list and the price is settled before the work is.
Where we work
The rest of Los Angeles County
What the walls are made of changes street by street in this city, and it changes the job.
Send us the list
However long it is. You get a price for the visit before anything is booked.