The Maintenance Shop – Handyman Services

The weather and a mechanical issue threw us off our game yesterday, but we should still be in decent shape to finish the current list of blowouts we have.  I am sure we will get more over the next week or so, but if all goes well this will be our last blog post for […]

We are down to 97 sprinkler blowouts currently on our list.  We will continue to take them as they come in. Usually the last few regular days of our sprinkler blowouts we are all over the map, so I generally don’t post individual streets we are visiting.  We will be covering everything currently on our […]

The crew was awesome yesterday and knocked out 80 sprinkler blowouts in four different zip codes.  We finished up three of the zip codes except for a few where we couldn’t get through gates or find valve boxes, and a new one that came through in the 83706 that we will get to later this […]

If all goes well, we should be able to wrap up our current list, and even a few extras by Thursday, but if we get another run on requests then by Friday.  We will likely stay open to new requests beyond that time, but it is something we can likely do throughout next week with […]

I have an interesting story to tell you today, and any comments would be awesome….. My son Jacob, who pulls “Leroy” stopped at a home in Kuna yesterday and was told at the door they no longer needed service.  This is fine, except the customer did not cancel through our cancellation form as he agreed […]

Covering three different zip codes in a day isn’t an easy chore to navigate, but even with issues of routing, we pulled off 78 sprinkler blowouts yesterday. For some more of what you might think is useless information, we are currently up 81 completed blowouts over last year for the entire season, and we still […]

Yesterday we passed last year’s completed, and we still have 3 weeks to go before we call it quits for the season after taking care of everyone on our list or will be on our list by then I should say. I am going to have to make some changes to our calendar because of […]

Well, this is the big day! The day prices go up for NEW requests for a sprinkler blowout.  The price increase for all who sign up today and through the end of the month will need to pay an additional $10 for their blowout than ones who signed up before November 10. We found a […]

Yesterday didn’t go as planned.  Jesse had truck issues and was only able to finish 1 blowout on his route.  I have assigned him another route for today, but he won’t be able to start until around noon.  Worst case scenario he will be using my service truck to pull “Orange Julius.” Starting at noon […]

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Jesse’s rig broke down today after doing his first blowout.  He is down for the day, so the route will resume on Monday. END OF UPDATE We have done sprinkler blowouts seven days a week during the season for several years, but this year we decided to leave weekends for an opportunity to […]