Blomberg Washer Repair in Staten Island, NY

Port Richmond and the surrounding north shore hold the oldest housing we work on in the borough. This was an established settlement well before most of Staten Island was developed, and the streets carry nineteenth and early twentieth century frame houses, some Victorian, alongside modest postwar infill and multifamily conversions. Kitchens in these homes have usually been remodeled several times over a long life, so appliances sit on plumbing and wiring that has been extended repeatedly. Basements are often unfinished, laundry sits down there beside the heating equipment, and access is easy even when the mechanical picture is complicated.

New Springville and Bulls Head represent the great mid island building boom. These neighborhoods filled in heavily through the second half of the twentieth century, particularly after the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge opened Staten Island to development, and they are dominated by split levels, ranches, colonials and the attached and semi attached townhouse rows that Staten Island builders produced in volume from the 1970s onward. The Staten Island Mall and the Richmond Avenue commercial corridor anchor this part of the island, and the Greenbelt's woodland sits alongside it. Kitchens here are conventional, full size and often the subject of a single major renovation somewhere in the last twenty years.

Annadale and Eltingville on the south shore are the most suburban part of New York City by any honest measure. Detached single family homes on their own lots with driveways, attached garages, decks, finished basements and, in many cases, a second refrigerator and a chest freezer supporting a large household. Homes here are generally newer, kitchens are larger, and appliance packages tend toward big capacity: French door refrigerators, thirty six inch ranges, double ovens and full size laundry pairs. The south shore also sits closer to the water, and homeowners in the low lying stretches have direct experience with coastal storm flooding and what it does to mechanical equipment.