Appliance repair in downtown Charleston.

Historic houses, tight stairs, no parking

Downtown is its own kind of job. The machines are ordinary; the buildings aren’t. Laundry closets on the third floor of a single house, dishwashers in kitchens with two hundred years of settling, refrigerators that came in through a window. We plan downtown stops with the extra time they need, we know which streets have loading zones, and we bring the dollies and blankets that a South of Broad stairwell requires.

What the peninsula calls about

Condos and rentals along King Street and the Crosstown run stacked pairs and compact dishwashers that fail on pumps, locks and boards. The historic homes run a mix — panel-front built-ins in renovated kitchens, veteran ranges in the ones that weren’t. And the whole peninsula shares the summer refrigerator rush and the humidity that felts dryer lint. Ordinary parts, unusual buildings.