Los Angeles County, California
Small handyman jobs in Marina del Rey
Small handyman jobs in Marina del Rey’s apartments and condos, where the wall behind the paint may be steel stud or concrete instead of wood. TV mounts, shelves, patches, doors and fixtures, with a price agreed before anyone drills.
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.
The question in the Marina is never plaster or drywall, because almost everything here went up from the sixties on. It is drywall over wood, steel stud or concrete, and getting that wrong shows up a year later when whatever you hung starts to lean. Tell us what’s on the list and what the wall is, and you get a price agreed before anything starts.
Marina del Rey jobs and their price bands
The bands are the ones on our TV mounting, screen and slider and patching pages, and the whole list gets a firm price first.
- TV into steel stud or concrete$250–$450with the right toggle or sleeve for that wall
- TV in a sixties garden complex$150–$300drywall over wood studs
- Screen door rollers and track on a slider$110–$250sand and salt cleared out first
- Anchor holes filled before a move-out$150–$300for the visit, primed and touched up
- Run of wall shelving$100–$250anchored for steel or concrete as the wall needs
Garden complexes, towers and podiums
The low-rise sixties complexes, out toward the end of Fiji Way, are drywall over wood studs at standard spacing, the easy case. The towers on Marina City Drive are concrete with metal-stud partitions, where a toggle meant for drywall will hold a picture and won’t hold a 65-inch screen for long.
The newer buildings along Via Marina, Admiralty Way and Bali Way, and the finger streets off them, are mostly concrete podiums with metal studs above. Some sit on post-tensioned slabs, and nobody should drill into one, or hang anything from a garage ceiling, until the building confirms what’s inside it. If we say we need to check with your management first, that is the job done properly.
Gates, elevators and the wind off the water
Between the street and your door there is usually a garage gate, a service elevator and a manager who wants the visit cleared before anyone carries a drill through the lobby, so start that early. This is open water, and sliding door tracks grit up with sand, balcony gate hardware corrodes and weatherstripping on the ocean side goes hard years sooner than inland. All of it fits on the same visit as the TV.
What a Marina handyman visit won’t cover
When a job reaches $1,000, or needs a permit, it is work for a licensed contractor, and we’ll tell you that before anyone starts.
- A new outlet behind the TV or a moved ceiling box, which in a concrete building is a bigger electrical job than it looks.
- Plumbing that means opening a wall, or anything on a line shared with the unit below.
- A slider replaced instead of serviced, and any work on the building’s structure.
And if the job grows once we have seen it, we stop and tell you before any more work happens.
For a Marina del Rey quote
- The building name or the cross streets, since Fiji Way and Via Marina differ on gates and elevator hours.
- Garden complex, tower or newer podium, and whether you rent or own.
- A photo of the wall, added to the form, and what management needs before we’re let in.
Send us the list and you get one price for all of it before a visit is booked.
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.