Handyman in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque, NM
Los Ranchos de Albuquerque is a small village in the North Valley, surrounded on three sides by Albuquerque and bordered by the Rio Grande on the west. Residents voted to incorporate in 1958, largely to avoid being annexed by the city, and the village has used lot-size and land-use rules ever since to stay green, quiet and agricultural. It covers just over four square miles and has about 5,900 people. Homes range from old adobe farmhouses and historic haciendas to Territorial and Pueblo-style homes from the mid-twentieth century, ranch homes from the 1960s and 1970s and newer custom houses on large lots. Many properties have irrigation rights from the acequia system, with orchards, gardens, alfalfa fields and horses. The landmark Los Poblanos ranch, with buildings designed by John Gaw Meem in the 1930s, sits right in the middle of the village and its lavender fields have become a symbol of the place.
Rio Grande Boulevard runs through the village under a canopy of tall cottonwoods, lined with old adobe walls, pastures and gated driveways, while Fourth Street, the original Route 66 alignment through Albuquerque before 1937, runs along the east side with shops and the village's civic buildings. Guadalupe Trail, Chamisal Road and Ranchitos Road wind between fields and irrigation ditches. The Los Ranchos Growers' Market draws people on summer Saturdays, and the Lavender in the Village festival in July celebrates the fields that bloom purple each summer. The Paseo del Bosque Trail follows the river just to the west, and on fall mornings during the Balloon Fiesta, balloons often drift low over the village fields.
ZIP codes we cover in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque: 87107, 87114
What Los Ranchos de Albuquerque neighbors book most
- Fence & Gate Repair
- Door Repair & Adjustment
- Drywall Repair
- Gutter Cleaning & Repair
- Light Fixture Installation
- Pressure Washing
Jobs we handle a lot around Los Ranchos de Albuquerque
Los Ranchos jobs often mix rural upkeep with old-house care. We repair and rehang wooden gates on long driveways, replace rotted posts in pasture and coyote fences, fix barn and shed doors and clear cottonwood debris out of canales, gutters and roof drains. Inside older homes, we patch cracked plaster, ease swollen wood doors, replace worn hardware and help update lighting and ceiling fans in rooms with vigas and high ceilings, with our licensed electricians making the connections. Pressure washing flagstone, brick and portales before summer gatherings is popular too, as is fall winterizing for hose bibs and exterior faucets around big yards.
Questions we hear in Los Ranchos de Albuquerque
Can you match repairs to the style of my older adobe home?
Yes. Older valley homes often have deep window sills, rounded plaster corners, wood lintels and carved doors, and repairs should fit in with all of that. We use plaster products and textures that blend with hand-finished walls, keep original doors and hardware when they can be repaired and choose fixtures that suit the house instead of fighting it.
My irrigation water floods part of the yard. Can you help with that?
We can help with the parts around your house: fixing or adjusting gates and boards on the yard's ditch turnouts, repairing fences and gates the water has undermined, and making sure roof runoff and irrigation water drain away from foundations and adobe walls. Work on the shared acequia itself goes through the ditch's governing association or mayordomo, so we stay on your side of the property line.
Do you install ceiling fans in rooms with vigas?
Yes. It takes some planning, since vigas and latilla ceilings don't leave much room for a standard box. We find a solid mounting point, often on a beam or a built-in support between beams, choose a fan with the right downrod length so the blades sit at a safe height and run the wiring as discreetly as possible. Our licensed electricians make the connections and make sure the box and support are rated for the fan.
Can you fix the big wooden gate at the end of my driveway?
Yes, it's one of the most common calls we get in the village. Heavy wooden drive gates sag over time as the hinge post leans, the hinges wear and the frame racks out of square. We reset or brace the hinge post, add a diagonal brace or turnbuckle to pull the gate back into shape, replace worn hinges with heavier ones and adjust the latch so it catches cleanly. If the gate drags across gravel, we raise it or trim the bottom rail so it swings freely again.
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