A Panhandle house lives a hard life: baking summers, hail that shows up out of a green sky, blowing dust, and a hard freeze or two once winter arrives. Our seasonal maintenance visits run a practical checklist — exterior caulk, weatherstripping, filter changes, smoke detector batteries, gutter checks, and fence and gate hardware — catching the small problems while they're still small and cheap.
It's the steady upkeep an old-timer does out of habit, done for busy families who'd rather spend a Saturday out at the lake or a ballgame than up on a ladder checking sealant. Keep a running list on the fridge and we'll fold those items right into the visit.
The two visits we push hardest bracket the seasons that punish a house here. The pre-storm spring walk hunts for the loose soft metals, tired screens and lifted flashing that hail and straight-line wind will find and worsen. The pre-freeze fall walk is about sealing the envelope and protecting exposed plumbing against the hard northers, so the first sub-freezing night does not hand you a burst hose bibb.
A maintenance visit is a flat rate covering the checklist and minor consumables like caulk, filters and batteries. What changes the total is the size of the home, how much of your own to-do list rides along, and whether we turn up something bigger needing its own quote. Two-story and larger homes take longer to walk fully. A first thorough visit on a long-neglected house finds more to do than the routine follow-ups. Anything beyond the checklist we price separately and clear with you before touching it.
A straightforward visit rate that covers the checklist plus the minor materials like caulk and batteries. Anything bigger we spot, we quote separately before touching it — no surprises tacked onto the bill.
Twice a year suits most Amarillo homes — spring after the worst of storm season, and fall before the first freeze. Newer homes coming off builder warranty get the most out of that first thorough walk-through.
Please do — that's the best part. Most families have a running list going, and rolling those odd jobs into the maintenance stop is the most efficient way to hire us.
The big ones are wrapping exposed hose bibbs and pipe, checking that outdoor faucets shut fully, and refreshing door and window weatherstripping. We also look at gutters so a freeze-thaw does not back water up. It is the walk that keeps a January norther from turning into a plumbing call.
It often is, because a thorough walk catches settling cracks, caulk gaps and hardware issues while they are still the builder's responsibility. We document what we find so you can take real items back to the builder before the warranty lapses, and we handle the small fixes that fall outside it in the same visit.
Serving Wolflin, Puckett Place, Sleepy Hollow, The Colonies, Tradewind and the towns nearby — pick your neighborhood:
Send a photo and a line or two about the job, and we'll shoot back a real price and a morning that actually holds.