Handyman & Repairs
The punch list: doors, trim, flooring, tile, TV mounting, fans, gutters, and faucet or toilet work.
Handyman & Repairs in Burlington NCRepairs, water damage rebuilds and carpentry in Haw River, just east of Burlington in Alamance County.
Haw River NC is a small Alamance County town on the river it is named after, just east of Burlington. A lot of what we do here is moisture-related, because that is what the housing stock and the setting produce.
Handyman and remodeling services in Haw River, NC. Haw River is a small Alamance County town immediately east of Burlington, named for the river that runs through it, and it is a short drive from us.
Haw River is an old mill town with housing stock to match, and it sits on a river. Both of those facts point the same direction.
Older houses here tend to have crawl spaces rather than slabs, and crawl spaces in this part of the Piedmont hold moisture. Add a low-lying setting and drainage that was never really designed, and you get the same cluster of problems again and again: soft subfloor, joists that have taken years of damp, sagging floors, and drywall that shows a stain somebody painted over rather than traced.
None of that is dramatic. It is slow, it is invisible until it is not, and it is much cheaper to deal with at the sagging-floor stage than at the replacing-joists stage.
First, house leveling and floor repair. If you can feel a slope, hear a bounce, or you are filling the same crack above a door every year, the answer is under the house rather than on the wall.
Second, water damage repair. Not the extraction itself, which is a different trade on a different clock, but the rebuild afterwards: cutting damaged material back to something genuinely sound and putting the room back properly.
Third, drywall repair, because a stain on a ceiling is not a paint problem and painting it just buys a few weeks.
Haw River is not only water work. We build decks, do bathroom remodels, take off popcorn ceilings, and handle ordinary punch lists the same as anywhere else. It is just that in this town the call more often starts with something damp.
If we get under a house here and what we find is bigger than a floor repair, we will tell you. Foundation failure and anything that wants an engineer's stamp is not our work, and selling you a floor job that does not address the real problem would be a waste of your money.
Call (336) 380-9459 and describe what you are seeing.
Almost always water that has been getting into the subfloor for a while, and in older Haw River housing it is one of the most common things we find. The soft material has to come out rather than be covered over, and we look at the joists underneath while it is open.
No. Stopping the water, extracting it and drying the structure is mitigation work and it is a different trade on a different clock. Call a mitigation company first. We do the reconstruction once the place is dry.
Because in this part of the Piedmont it is where moisture sits, and moisture in a crawl space is what eventually shows up as a sagging floor, a bouncing room or doors that stop closing. Fixing the framing without dealing with the water means doing it twice.
Yes. It is immediately east of Burlington and one of the shorter drives we make, so even small jobs there are worth doing.
The punch list: doors, trim, flooring, tile, TV mounting, fans, gutters, and faucet or toilet work.
Handyman & Repairs in Burlington NCHoles, cracks, water-stained board and whole rooms. Hung, taped, floated and finished, then trim run tight.
Drywall & Trim in Burlington NCGround level and elevated decks, pool decks, stairs and railings. Framed from the footings up and built to code.
Decks & Pool Decks in Burlington NCDescribe what you are seeing. We will come look under the house and tell you straight.
(336) 380-9459