AGA Range Repair in Tully & LaFayette, NY

Close to the city, the homes look like inner-ring suburbs anywhere in Central New York: older frame houses along the main roads, capes and ranches built after the war, and split-levels and colonials climbing the slopes. Basements are common and often hold the laundry, reached by a stair that was built for people, not for washers. Kitchens have usually been remodeled at least once, which means newer electronic appliances often sit on wiring and venting that are decades older than the cabinets around them.

Farther south and higher up, the housing becomes rural. Farmhouses with fieldstone cellars and add-on kitchens, raised ranches on multi-acre lots, mobile and modular homes on family land, and seasonal camps in the woods all show up in Fabius, Tully, and the outer parts of LaFayette. Many properties have more than one building with appliances in it: a garage refrigerator, a barn freezer, a shop washer. Those outbuildings are where appliances live the hardest lives, exposed to dust, humidity, and real cold.

Water ties the two halves together and also splits them apart. Parts of Nedrow and Jamesville are served by the Onondaga County Water Authority, and planning documents describe that southern network carrying soft Skaneateles Lake water to those areas. The Village of Tully runs its own system from wells, and nearly everyone else in the area pumps from a private well. So within one service area we deal with some of the softest water in the region and some of the hardest, and our diagnosis starts by asking which one you have.