The Story Behind Syracuse Handyman Pros

Syracuse sits at the north end of the Finger Lakes region, on the south shore of Onondaga Lake, and its winters are famous for good reason. Lake-effect bands off Lake Ontario routinely push the season's snowfall past a hundred inches, which puts the city in the running every year for the Golden Snowball, the informal contest among upstate cities for the snowiest winter. Summers turn warm and humid, with thunderstorms rolling through. The housing stock is just as distinctive. A large share of the city's homes were built before World War II: upper-and-lower two-family flats, Victorian and Queen Anne houses in neighborhoods like Hawley-Green and the Near Westside, Arts and Crafts and Tudor homes in Sedgwick and Strathmore, and the 1910s through 1930s streets of Eastwood, Westcott and Outer Comstock. Ringing the city are the postwar suburbs of Liverpool, Camillus, DeWitt and Fayetteville, full of ranches, capes, split-levels and colonials.

Put old houses and hard winters together and you get a steady stream of small repairs that are surprisingly hard to get done. Plaster cracks over doorways after another season of the house shifting with frost. Ice dams back water under shingles and leave a stain on the bedroom ceiling. Storm doors bend in the wind, gutters pull loose under the weight of ice, and the toilet in an upstairs flat starts running and never stops. The bigger contractors around Onondaga County are busy with remodels and roofs and rarely want a half-day of odds and ends, so the list keeps growing.

That's the work we're set up for. We're a local Syracuse crew, general liability insured, and we would much rather earn your next call than stretch this one. We give you a clear quote before we start, plan the whole list into one organized visit, and treat older homes with care, including lead-safe work practices on painted surfaces in houses built before 1978. Wiring and plumbing connections are made by our licensed electricians and plumbers, so a new ceiling fan, a light fixture swap or a replacement toilet gets finished in the same visit as everything else. One call covers it.

Our promises, plainly put

• The price you approve is the price you pay
• General liability insurance on every visit
• A real arrival time, not a half-day window
• Boots wiped, dust cleaned, trash hauled off
• Straight talk when a job belongs with a licensed trade
• Rooted here in Syracuse and the towns next door