Handyman in Crossnore, NC

Avery County's small mission town

Crossnore isn't a resort town and isn't trying to be one. It grew up around the Crossnore School — a historic mission and children's home still known for its Weaving Room — and the Ben Long fresco in the school's chapel, which draws a small steady trickle of visitors past an otherwise quiet crossroads. Most of the year it's a working mountain community: a school, a few local businesses, and homes tucked into the hollows and hillsides around it.

Sitting around 3,500 feet, it's high enough that winter is a real part of life here, not an inconvenience — and that shapes the kind of repair calls I get more than almost anything else about the town.

The repairs Crossnore homes ask for most

At 3,500 feet, winter does real damage — cold, snow, ice, and the freeze-thaw cycle that keeps working a crack open a little wider every year. On Crossnore's older housing stock that shows up as carpentry and wood-rot repair on trim, sills, and framing that's been through one too many hard winters, plus deck and porch repair where a structure has taken the brunt of the snow load and ice. It also shows up as siding repair where old siding has finally worn through, and inside the house, kitchen and bath repairs in dated rooms that haven't been touched in decades.

When water or age has gotten behind a wall, I handle the drywall patching myself instead of leaving you to find a second contractor for a hole I made getting to the real problem. You can see all my Crossnore services for the full list.

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