The Maintenance Shop – Handyman Services

Important Update: Jesse’s wife and 15-month old son ended up with some type of bug late last night so he will have to postpone his route for repairs and blowouts until tomorrow.  Sorry for the inconvenience. End Of Update This could be our last post for a while. There are only 9 sprinkler blowouts left […]

The next few days will be sprinkler blowout Hell, to put it mildly.  We are now in stage one of the final sweep for the season which is always tough.  We have around 38-40 blowouts remaining, and not only are they scattered all over the valley, but three-quarters of them are also listed as “Couldn’t […]

Everything seems to be going on as planned.  Today is our actual last day in one particular zip code.  Starting Wednesday we begin the sweep to all we couldn’t do because of either locked gates or damaged systems.  If we find locked gates for a third time the customer will be charged a fee as […]

Saturday didn’t start very well for Challis.  He did his daily inspection on the compressor and my service rig and found a blown tire on the compressor.  After getting the tires replaced he got back out on the road but was unable to finish his route.  He went out yesterday, (Sunday) to get the 7-8 […]

We made some headway yesterday, but not as much as I would have liked.  Since we never really know what system issues we are going to run into there is nothing predictable. Any areas not completed yesterday will be done within the next three business days as we wrap up the 2022 sprinkler blowout season. […]

Well, I can feel the end coming soon! The guys did an awesome job yesterday.  We still have some in the 83705 to complete because there was no way Challis was going to be able to take care of the entire zip code in one day.  Jesse completed all of the 83702 except for one […]

Sorry, but I have to keep this short and sweet today. Challis is back, so we will be picking up where he left off yesterday. Here are the routes for today: Boise 83705 – Challis with “Purple Rain” W Sunrise Rim Rd S Virginia Ave W Cherry Ct S Ormond St W Malad St Lemhi […]

Important Update Challis will be out ill today, so we will have to postpone his route in the 83705 until Thursday.  Sorry for the inconvenience. End Of Update Sprinkler blowouts didn’t go well today at all.  The guys ran into SEVERAL systems that were having problems, and Kelly was the only one able to ALMOST […]

Six or seven more working days and we should have all blowouts wrapped up for the season. Then we start the fun job of payment collections, threats of property liens or filing a lien on unpaid invoices, and sharing non-payment information with the credit bureaus.  Fun times! Jesse did a blowout yesterday in 3 inches […]