Los Angeles County, California
Small handyman jobs in Panorama City
Small handyman jobs in Panorama City, where the neighborhood splits at Van Nuys Boulevard: postwar tract houses to the east, stucco apartments to the west. Two different walls, and knowing which you have is half the job. Send the list and get a price first.
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.
Which side of Van Nuys Boulevard you’re on tells us more about a Panorama City job than anything else. East of it the streets are filled with late-forties tract houses. West of it, and along Roscoe, Nordhoff and Parthenia, it is sixties and seventies apartment blocks, and the walls and the customers differ with them.
Panorama City jobs and their ranges
These are the bands on our ceiling fan, door repair, TV mounting and drywall repair pages, and you get a firm price for your own list first.
- Fan where a tract-house light fixture was$250–$450the old lighting box replaced with one rated for a fan
- Straight light fixture swap$100–$200where the box and wiring are already there
- Tract door adjusted at hinge and strike$95–$200seventy years of settling taken out
- TV in a west-side apartment$150–$300drywall over studs
- Doorknob-sized hole in rock lath$200–$400built back up to depth, textured and painted
Tract houses east, apartments west
The tract houses east of the boulevard are often rock lath with a plaster skim, which looks like drywall and patches like plaster, so a repair has to be built back up to depth instead of set flush. Their ceilings often have a plain lighting box that won’t carry a fan, which is the usual reason a summer fan install stops halfway.
West of the boulevard the stucco apartment blocks and dingbats are drywall over wood studs, the wall the internet assumes you have, and those jobs sit at the low end of every range above.
Small garages and carports
East of the boulevard there are driveways, though the streets are narrow and the tract garages are small. West of it there are tuck-under carports with every space taken. Either way the ladder and the drill take real time to bring in, so the TV, the two curtain rods and the bathroom door belong on one visit.
What goes to a licensed trade here
Anything that needs a building permit is outside the exemption whatever it costs. A whole unit repainted between tenants, or several tract doors replaced at once, reaches the price line too.
- Electrical past a fixture swap, like a new circuit for a fan where none ran before.
- Re-pipes and slab leaks, which in a slab-on-grade tract house come up more than you’d like.
- Disturbing paint without a certified renovator, since most of the neighborhood predates 1978.
And if the work grows once we have taken a close look at it, we’ll stop and tell you before anything else happens.
What helps with a Panorama City quote
- Your cross streets, and which side of Van Nuys Boulevard they’re on.
- Tract house, apartment block or newer building on the boulevard.
- A photo of the ceiling box or the wall, added to the form.
Send us the list and you’ll have a price agreed before any work is scheduled.
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.