Handyman in Verona, WI
Verona sits about ten miles southwest of downtown Madison, where the city's edge gives way to the rolling hills and valleys of the Driftless region's eastern fringe. It was named for Verona, New York, became a village in 1921 and a city in 1978, and for most of its history it was a small farm town of a few thousand people. That changed in the 2000s, when the population roughly doubled, driven in large part by Epic Systems, whose huge campus on the west side of town now employs thousands of people. As a result, much of Verona's housing is young. The older core around Main Street and Verona Avenue holds early-1900s homes and modest mid-century houses, and there are ranches and split-levels from the 1970s through the 1990s, but most of the city's homes and townhomes have gone up after 2000, many with open plans, two-story great rooms, finished basements and three-car garages. That means lots of punch-list work as houses settle in, lots of TV mounting and smart-home setup, and a growing list of fixtures and finishes reaching the end of their first life.
Verona is very much a trail town. The Military Ridge State Trail runs through on the old railroad grade between Fitchburg and Dodgeville, and a section of the Ice Age National Scenic Trail crosses the city, following ridges and woods along the way. Badger Mill Creek winds through neighborhoods toward the Sugar River, and Badger Prairie County Park, on the land of the old county asylum and poor farm between Verona and Madison, has trails, sledding hills and a large dog park. The Verona Public Library overlooks the park. Summer brings Hometown Days, and the high school and the Epic campus anchor two very different sides of daily life. US 18/151 bypasses the old downtown, while Main Street, Verona Avenue and the county roads carry local traffic, so getting around town is easy outside the Epic shift change.
ZIP codes we cover in Verona: 53593
What Verona neighbors book most
- TV Mounting
- Smart Home Installation
- Garage Storage & Shelving
- Drywall Repair
- Ceiling Fan Installation
- Fence & Gate Repair
Jobs we handle a lot around Verona
Because so much of Verona is newer, a lot of our work here is first-generation finishing and fixing. We mount TVs in great rooms and basements, hang heavy mirrors and art, add ceiling fans to bedrooms and covered porches, install video doorbells, smart locks and thermostats, and build garage storage so three-car garages can hold three cars again. As homes reach ten or fifteen years old, the list shifts to drywall cracks along stairwells and vaulted ceilings, doors that need adjustment, worn faucets and toilet parts, re-caulking showers and tubs, and fence posts that have heaved in the disturbed, compacted soil around new subdivisions. In the older homes near Main Street, plaster repair, old doors and dated light fixtures are more typical. Gutter cleaning is lighter in neighborhoods with young trees but heavy on the older, wooded lots.
Questions we hear in Verona
We just moved into a new build in Verona. What should we have done in the first year?
Most new owners call us for the same short list: mounting TVs and shelves on walls where blocking may or may not exist, adding ceiling fans in bedrooms where a box was installed but not a fan, setting up smart thermostats, locks and doorbells, building out closets and garage storage, and fixing the small nail pops and trim gaps that show up after the first winter. We can handle the move-in items now and come back for the settling punch list once the house has been through a full heating season.
Can you mount a TV high on the wall in a two-story great room?
Yes. Tall walls take more planning: we bring proper staging or scaffolding, locate the framing, often over a fireplace or between tall windows, and use a mount rated for the screen and the angle you want. Cables run inside the wall with in-wall rated parts, and any new outlet is added by our licensed electrician. We'll talk about viewing height honestly, since a screen that looks great from the doorway can be a neck strain from the couch.
Our vaulted ceiling has a crack that comes back every winter. Can you fix it for good?
A crack that opens in winter and closes in summer is usually movement in the framing as the house dries out and the trusses shift with the seasons, rather than a structural problem. Simply filling it again won't hold. We re-secure the drywall near the joint, then use a flexible tape and compound system, or in some cases a floating corner method, that lets the joint move without cracking the finish. If anything looks more serious, like a sagging ceiling, we'll tell you to have a builder or engineer look first.
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