Handyman Services in South City St. Louis, MO

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South City St. Louis is where the city's immigrant history is literally built into the walls. The German workers who fired clay in Dutchtown, the Bohemian families who settled Bevo Mill, the Italian families of The Hill — they all left behind neighborhoods of solid brick homes that have outlasted the industries that built them. Tower Grove South and Shaw have experienced a genuine renaissance in the last decade, with young families and small business owners reinvesting in homes that sat neglected for years. This is a neighborhood where a handyman who knows brick and plaster will never run out of work.

South City housing is overwhelmingly brick — two-story flats, four-family buildings, shotgun houses, and the distinctive St. Louis-style brick rowhouses with their flat roofs and limestone trim. Most of this housing stock dates from the 1880s through the 1920s, and while the bones are often remarkable, the systems are not. We regularly encounter original clay sewer laterals that have collapsed, knob-and-tube wiring that's been dangerously modified, plaster walls pulling away from lath, and flat roofs with multiple layers of patching that need to be stripped to the deck. The Bevo Mill area saw revitalization when Bosnian immigrants began buying and renovating homes in the 1990s, and that energy has spread into adjacent blocks.

Uncle Phil's knows South City construction because we work in it constantly. We understand brick two-flats — the shared walls, the common rooflines, the way one unit's plumbing runs through another unit's ceiling. We can tuckpoint your facade, replace a rotted window sill, or install a modern bathroom in a building that predates indoor plumbing. We're comfortable with the unexpected, because in South City, the unexpected is the job.

We serve South City and the surrounding areas, including Affton and Lemay in South County, as well as neighborhoods like Tower Grove, Shaw, Dutchtown, and Bevo Mill throughout the city. The urban core is a regular part of our service territory.

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South City's beloved brick row houses and shotgun homes are the heart of St. Louis residential character — tuckpointing is practically a religion here, and every homeowner eventually needs help with settling foundations, original window restoration, and the endless battle against moisture in century-old basements.

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