Small repairs and punch lists
Home Repair and Small Jobs in Hot Springs, AR
Drywall repair, interior paint, a sink swap and a door that binds in its jamb. A small job gets the same finish a whole remodel gets.
The work inside the house
What the small work covers
Small work covers everything from a patched drywall corner to a sink swap and a door reset in its jamb. Joint compound and a matched texture coat finish a wall. New hardware and a jamb that keeps the slab square finish a door.
The finish on a small job matches the finish on a whole remodel. Nothing on the wall shows where the damage was, and the paint stops on a clean line at the casing.
Repairs across Hot Springs, the Village and the Garland County towns around them.
The early stages
What we find early
Our trained crew knows the common problems behind a small repair. We find them in the beginning stages of the job, while the wall or the cabinet is still open. A problem found at that stage still fits inside the price.
What turns up under a sink cabinet or behind a knocked-in corner sets the real size of the job. We look at the supply lines and the disposal under a sink, and at the framing behind the drywall.
The order of the work is the same on any list. The room gets covered and masked first, then the repairs go in the order that keeps one from marking another, and the paint goes on last.
Room by room
The repairs we take on
One list can cross four trades, and all four fit inside one job here.
Drywall repair and texture matching
Joint compound over the damage, sanded flat, then a texture coat matched to the wall beside it. The patch disappears into the wall around it.
Interior paint
Casing masked and edges cut in by hand before a roller touches the wall. A hallway or a single repaired wall comes back to an even sheen.
Interior doors, jambs and thresholds
A split jamb filled, sanded and painted, with the hardware reset so the slab swings clear of the frame. Thresholds set flat underfoot.
Cabinet painting and refinishing
Cabinet doors off the hinges, faces sanded, then painted in place over a primer that sticks. Worn kitchen faces come back without new boxes.
Tile regrouting and grout repair
Old joints scraped out and fresh grout packed down the full run of tile. Every joint on a balcony or a bathroom floor comes back clean.
Shelving and built-ins
Shelving and cabinet boxes anchored into studs, with the drawers running on full-extension slides. Plywood built where a stock cabinet will not fit.
A fresh patch shows against paint already on the wall, so a repair often ends with a repaint of the room. A door that binds is usually a jamb out of square, and the jamb gets shimmed and the hardware reset before the slab is touched.
Two finished small jobs
A repair you cannot find
A kitchen counter went from an open granite cutout, with the supply lines and the disposal exposed underneath, to a stainless drop-in sink under a pull-down faucet. A living room corner went from bare paper back to even paint that meets the white patio door casing.
BeforeAfter
BeforeAfterBoth jobs are in the gallery with the rest of the 28 finished jobs.
The estimate
What moves the number
How many items you put on the list moves the number first. What we have to open up moves it next, because a corner that stops at the paper takes compound and a corner off the stud takes new board behind it. The material you pick moves it again, and a pull-down faucet and a drop-in sink cost what they cost at the counter. Whether the repair needs paint past the patch moves the last of it.
We look at all four while we are standing in the room, then put one written number in your hand for the whole list. That number stays the same unless you change the job. Ask for an estimate and we set a time to come look at the work. The estimate is free.
Items on the list
What gets opened up
The material you pick
Paint past the patch
Before you call
Questions we get asked
Do you take small jobs, or only whole remodels?
Both, and the same phone number books either one. The same company remodels bathrooms, rebuilds floors, builds decks, replaces siding and repaints interiors. A single sticking door still gets a real appointment and a written number.
Is the estimate free on a small job?
Yes, and there is no fine print under it. The visit costs you nothing and the written number costs you nothing. You owe us nothing until you tell us to start.
Can I hand you a list of several things at once?
Bring the whole list to the estimate. We look at every item with you, then set the order so a finished repair does not get marked up by the next one. One written number covers what you asked for.
Do you paint the wall after a drywall repair?
You can see a fresh patch against paint that has been on a wall for years, so a repair usually takes paint past the patch. Sometimes that means the wall and sometimes it means the room. You pick which one before we open a can.
Where we work
Worth the drive for a small job
A punch list is the work most contractors will not drive out for. It is worth our drive because we are already in the area. A small repair in Hot Springs Village, or in one of the Garland County towns around it, is a short drive from us.
We personalize the schedule around your week, and we are here to answer the phone when you call. The same people who quote the list answer that phone while the job is going.
Hand us the whole list
Get a free estimate
Tell us what needs fixing. We come look at the work, and the visit costs you nothing.
