Home Maintenance in Summerlin

Villages we're regularly in

Summerlin is not one neighbourhood, it's a stack of villages built over thirty-odd years, and what a house needs depends a great deal on which one it's in. We work across The Trails, The Willows, The Hills, The Vistas, The Paseos, Summerlin Centre, Stonebridge, Reverence, The Ridges and Sun City Summerlin.

What the homes are like

The eastern villages — The Trails, The Willows, parts of The Hills — went up largely through the 1990s. Those are mature streets with established landscaping, and the houses have reached the age where the original equipment has been replaced once and the second generation of it is getting on. The western and newer villages, Stonebridge and Reverence in particular, are 2015 onward and still on original hardware.

Two features run through nearly all of it and both are ours. The first is height: the two-story entry with a hanging fixture is close to a Summerlin signature, and vaulted great rooms with recessed cans are standard from the mid-nineties builds onward. Those are the bulbs that don't get changed, and the ceiling-mounted smoke detectors that don't get their batteries done. The second is the second return — a lot of these floor plans run two or three HVAC returns rather than one, and the upstairs one is routinely the filter nobody knew about.

Sun City Summerlin is its own case. It's an age-restricted community of predominantly single-story homes from the late eighties through the nineties, so the ladder problem is smaller — but it's also the part of Summerlin where a forty pound bag of salt is the job people most want handed off, and where hardwired smoke detectors are now well past the ten-year mark and worth having the date read to you each year.

Water and softeners

Summerlin sits on Las Vegas Valley Water District supply, which is Colorado River water through the Southern Nevada Water Authority — the same roughly 16 to 18 grains per gallon the rest of the valley deals with. Softeners are common here, and near-universal in the newer villages where they were fitted as a builder option. If there's a brine tank in your garage, salt is a four-to-six-times-a-year chore and it's the main reason most Summerlin customers take Hands-free over lite.

From the log

[TODO: owner to supply a real anonymised job note from a Summerlin home — e.g. a filter-size count from a multi-return floor plan, or a salt usage pattern. Do not publish an invented one.]

Where to start

If your house has a two-story entry and a softener, Hands-free is almost certainly the tier — it's the one that covers both the high bulbs and the salt. Single-story with no brine tank, start at lite. Call and describe the house and we'll tell you which.