When your property includes a house, a detached shop, a barn, and a couple of sheds, there’s always something that needs attention. Most of it isn’t hard. It just takes time, tools, and a free afternoon that never seems to show up. Meanwhile a loose board lets water in and a door that won’t latch lets wind and critters through.
Our general repair service covers the everyday fixes that keep Ballard properties working: doors and hardware, trim and siding, gutters and downspouts, steps, gates, and outbuilding repairs. Hand us your list and we’ll sort it by what’s urgent, what can wait, and what should be grouped together so the work gets done in as few trips as possible. Nothing is too small to put on it.
We know how Basin wind, sun, and hard freezes wear down houses, shops, and barns, so we fix the cause along with the damage.
Our trucks carry the ladders, power tools, and fasteners needed to knock out a mixed repair list in a single visit.
We'll tell you which repairs truly need attention now and which can safely wait, so your money goes where it counts.
Scrap lumber, old hardware, and packaging leave with us, and work areas are swept clean before we pack up.
Ballard covers about 14 square miles with just over a thousand residents, so most properties have room to spread out. That usually means more than one building. A house, a detached garage, a shop, a hay barn, a chicken coop, and a shed or two all need upkeep, and each one wears in its own way.
Outbuildings tend to get ignored until something breaks. A shop door that drags, a barn door off its track, or a shed roof edge peeling back in the wind can all go unnoticed for a season. We like to walk the whole property when we come out, so repairs on the buildings you don’t see every day get caught too.
Inside and out, a house collects small problems. Doors swell and stick, screen doors bend, weatherstripping tears, trim boards split, and caulk lines crack and let air through. None of these alone is a crisis, but together they make a home drafty, harder to heat, and less pleasant to live in.
For rentals, small repairs matter even more. A tenant moving out leaves behind a list of its own, and getting the place ready quickly keeps it earning. Ballard has grown about 41% since 2010, and with more people looking for a place to live, a clean, working rental is worth keeping that way. If the turnover includes a worn garage or shop floor, epoxy coating gives that space a cleaner surface that’s easier to keep up.
Dry wind is one of the hardest things on rural buildings around here. It works loose siding panels, lifts metal roof edges, rips at fascia, and bangs unlatched doors until the hinges give out. Strong sun at this elevation dries out wood trim and caulk, and big freeze and thaw swings open up any crack that lets water in.
We refasten panels, replace damaged trim, rehang doors, reseal gaps, and repair gutters and downspouts so water drains away from foundations instead of pooling along the wall. Barn and shop doors on rollers get special attention, since a bent track or a worn wheel makes a heavy door fight you every time you open it. Fixing the track now beats replacing the whole door after it falls.
When you hand us a list, we put it in an order that makes sense:
That way the important items get handled first, and you decide how far down the list to go.
On a Ballard property, a gate that won’t close is more than an annoyance. It can mean horses or dogs where they shouldn’t be. Gate hinges, latches, and sagging gate posts are a regular part of our general repair calls. For longer stretches of damaged fencing, our fence repair service takes on posts, wire, rails, and panels.
We also handle loose mailbox posts, broken step treads, damaged porch boards, and the other small exterior jobs that tend to pile up by the back door. On a place with animals, a quick fix to a latch or hinge can save a long evening of rounding up loose stock.
Spring is a good time to catch winter damage: gutters bent by snow, doors that shifted with the frost, trim pulled loose by ice. Fall is the time to seal things up before the cold, tightening hardware, replacing weatherstripping, and making sure doors close firmly. Tackling repairs twice a year keeps the list short.
When a repair job leaves a pile of old boards, scrap metal, or broken fixtures, our debris hauling service takes it away. Call (801) 669-0512 and tell us what’s on your list.
We walk your Ballard house, shop, and outbuildings with you, look at each item, and note anything else we spot.
Your free quote lists each repair separately, so you can pick what to tackle now and what to save for later.
We work through the approved list in a sensible order, grouping related fixes so fewer trips are needed.
We go over every finished repair with you, test doors and latches, and confirm nothing on the list was missed.
