Sunnyvale handyman & home maintenance, on a membership

What Sunnyvale homes need

Sunnyvale is tract-built mid-century at heart — Eichler enclaves like the ones off Fremont and Hollenbeck, and street after street of fifties and sixties ranch homes that have been remodeled once or twice and lived in hard. Both are honest, well-built houses that mostly need consistent small work, done by someone who knows where they fail.

On the Eichlers: flat roofs and interior drains want a check every fall, atrium doors and floor-to-ceiling glass run in aluminum tracks that bind with grit and age, and the original siding — grooved plywood and clear-heart redwood — is worth repairing in place, matched groove for groove, not replaced with something close enough. Beam ends and fascia take the weather first; we probe them before the rains, because a one-board repair in October is a structural splice by March.

The ranch homes carry the classic South Bay list: fence and gate runs leaning at the posts, garage doors out of balance, water heaters and dishwashers at the end of their service lives, hairline drywall cracks from decades of dry summers and damp winters. None of it is a project on its own — which is exactly why it never gets done. Membership means it’s one list, one team, and it gets worked down every visit.

We handle the like-for-like appliance swaps, the patching and paint touch-ups, the caulking, the hardware — and when something needs a licensed trade, we coordinate it and you get one invoice.