Drywall, doors and windows, deck and fence repair, gutter cleaning, TV mounting and the punch list you've been putting off. Longwood's median home was built in 1979 -- older housing sets the job, and we start with the house, not a price sheet built for a newer one.
Seminole County Property Appraiser CAMA extract, dated 2026-09-05.
This is not a sales pitch -- it's the honest starting position for a house of that age in this city. Find the row your build year falls in.
| Your house was built | Share of city | What a Longwood house of that vintage usually has | What we check first |
|---|---|---|---|
| Before 1970 | 13.5% | Often retrofitted or added onto rather than built to one plan. Door and window openings are the least likely of any band to match a modern big-box stock size. | Measure the actual opening before ordering anything -- assume nothing is standard. |
| 1970 – 1989 | 66.5% | The dominant band in Longwood, and the median year built (1979) falls inside it. Original hollow-core interior doors, aluminum single-pane windows and wood fascia/trim are now 35-55 years old. | Door and window hardware condition, and whether the original trim profile is even still made. |
| 1990 – 1999 | 6.8% | The smallest band -- Longwood did comparatively little building in the nineties. Doors and windows here are more likely composite or vinyl and closer to today's standard sizing. | Thirty-year-old exterior wood trim and any original deck structure, which is now well into typical repair age. |
| 2000 and later | 13.2% | Built to post-2001 Florida Building Code with standard modern rough openings. Wildmere Village and other newer pockets sit here. | Mostly punch-list, fixture-install and paint-touch-up work rather than structural door/window/deck repair. |
Percentages are from the Seminole County Property Appraiser CAMA extract (n = 4,962 improved residential parcels, city tax district L1, dated 2026-09-05). The "usually has" and "what we check first" columns are our own reading of the housing stock for this trade, not a published statistic -- the only way to know what your house has is to look at it.
General repair and carpentry work. We do not perform electrical, plumbing, HVAC/AC or roofing work -- those stay separately licensed trades, and we'll tell you plainly when a job needs one.
Trim, baseboard, cabinet and hardware repair -- the small carpentry jobs a punch list is made of.
Learn more →Nail pops, dents, cracks and holes patched and textured to match, not just covered.
Learn more →Sticking doors, failed weatherstripping, broken sash cords and hardware on openings that often predate today's standard sizing.
Learn more →Board replacement, post repair, gate hardware and rail work for Florida sun, rain and wood-rot exposure.
Learn more →Debris removal and downspout checks before Central Florida's summer storm season.
Learn more →Studs found, TV leveled, cords concealed. No drywall anchors doing a stud's job.
Learn more →Sealing the gaps that let Central Florida's humidity and wind-driven rain into a house.
Learn more →The list that has been sitting on the fridge for six months, worked through in one visit.
Learn more →Longwood's platted core dates to 1885, and the city's own 37-building Historic District has been on the National Register since 1990. That history shows up in the parcel data: two-thirds of the city’s 4,962 improved residential parcels (66.5%) were built between 1970 and 1989, with the median landing at 1979 -- before big-box lumber yards standardized door slab and window sash sizes the way they are today. A lot of the repair work in this city is matching trim, doors and hardware to openings that predate that standardization, not swapping in an off-the-shelf part.
No. General handyman work in Florida does not cover electrical, plumbing, roofing or HVAC/AC -- those stay separately licensed trades regardless of job size, and we will tell you when a job needs one of them rather than attempt it ourselves. See our licensing guide for the full picture.
It depends on the job. Drywall patching, TV mounting, gutter cleaning and most caulking work typically doesn't need a permit. Deck and fence work often does, especially beyond a small repair -- the City of Longwood's own guidance is to call the Building Division and confirm before starting. We'll flag it if your job is in that category.
Check your water bill. A City of Longwood water bill means you're inside city limits and the City's Building Division has jurisdiction. A Seminole County water bill means you're in one of the unincorporated pockets carrying a Longwood mailing address (all of ZIP 32779, and areas west of I-4), and any required permit goes through the county instead.
This page is being finished before the business is sold -- the operator's real insurance and bonding status will be published here and it will not say "licensed and insured" until it is true. Florida does not require a state contractor licence for general handyman-scope work; see our licensing guide for what that does and doesn't mean.
Tell us the job and roughly how old the house is. That's usually enough to say on the phone what's involved and whether it needs a permit.
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