Handyman, Painting & Lock Services in Boca Raton
Boca Raton is two housing markets stacked on the same map. East of the tracks you have Addison Mizner's 1920s Spanish Mediterranean streets in Old Floresta, Pearl City from 1915, and the 1950s and 1960s block houses of Camino Gardens and Tunison Palms. West of Military Trail you have thousands of 1970s through 1990s condo and villa units in Century Village, Boca Del Mar and Whisper Walk. Palm Home Pros works both, on painting, lock and rekey services, TV mounting, furniture assembly and small repairs, with an upfront quote every time.
Working in Boca Raton
Housing stock
Boca Raton housing runs in three eras. The 1920s Mizner-era Spanish Mediterranean homes in Old Floresta have stucco, barrel tile and pecky cypress. The 1950s and 1960s block neighborhoods like Camino Gardens and Tunison Palms are CBS with tile roofs and skim-coated walls. West of Military Trail, condo and villa stock from 1970 through the 1990s dominates. Anchors go into block almost everywhere.
Associations and access
Most Boca Raton addresses answer to an association, and they are strict. Expect an approved exterior color palette, an architectural review form for anything visible from the street, a certificate of insurance on file before a technician is admitted, and posted work hours. Gated communities like Broken Sound, Woodfield and Boca Pointe run visitor lists at the guardhouse.
Old Floresta, Pearl City and the Mizner-era east side
Old Floresta went up in the 1920s under Addison Mizner and still reads that way: rustic stucco, wrought iron balconies, pecky cypress ceilings and barrel tile roofs on an open street grid with no gate. Pearl City, established in 1915, is the oldest neighborhood in the city. These are not the houses to hand a generic crew. Stucco takes an elastomeric-compatible system, pecky cypress should be cleaned and sealed rather than smothered in latex, and a lot of the interior trim is real wood that has never been stripped.
Boca Villas, the Golden Triangle and Por La Mar sit close to Mizner Park and the Intracoastal, where salt air is a daily fact. Hinge screws, entry hardware and sliding patio locks corrode there faster than three miles inland. When we rekey or replace hardware on an east Boca door, we specify finishes that survive it instead of the cheapest cylinder on the shelf.
Camino Gardens, Tunison Palms and the 1950s to 1960s block houses
Camino Gardens was built on the site of the old Africa USA wildlife attraction from the 1950s, and its houses carry the neighborhood's signature white barrel or flat tile roofs. The red footbridge that once led to Monkey Island is still there. Tunison Palms, north of Palmetto Park Road and west of Dixie Highway, is mostly 1960s houses and has no association at all, which is rare in this county and worth knowing before you plan a repaint.
Housing from this era is CBS block with skim-coated interior walls, terrazzo or tile underfoot, and low ceilings by current taste. Every wall anchor is a masonry anchor. Old picture hooks and anchor holes show through a fresh coat unless they are filled and spot-primed. We plan for both instead of discovering them on the second coat.
Century Village, Boca Del Mar and the west Boca condo belt
Century Village at Boca Raton is roughly 7,500 condo units on about 700 acres in 33434, built between 1970 and 1995, most of them one or two bedrooms between about 600 and 1,560 square feet. Boca Del Mar in 33433 holds around 22,000 residents across everything from one-bedroom condos to large custom homes. Whisper Walk, north of Yamato Road, has 1,446 homes across five subdivisions built from the mid-1980s into the early 1990s.
That is a very large stock of fifty-year-old and forty-year-old units in a small radius, and the demand is relentlessly small-ticket: rekey after a resale, repaint a unit between owners, remount a TV, rebuild a closet, replace a sagging blind. It is exactly the work most crews will not drive for. We schedule several in a day within one community so the visit is worth making.
Gated Boca: Broken Sound, Woodfield, Boca Pointe and Royal Palm
Boca Pointe covers about 1,200 acres and does not require club membership. Broken Sound and Woodfield Country Club are gated club communities that skew heavily toward residents over 55 without being age-restricted. Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club, off the Intracoastal, was ranked by Forbes in 2017 as the third most exclusive gated community in the country. Access to all of them runs through a guardhouse and a visitor list.
Boca Raton also enforces an unusually strict development code, which is why the main roads carry no billboards. Associations here are equally particular. Expect an approved exterior color palette, a certificate of insurance on file, an architectural review form for anything visible from the street, and set work hours. We handle that paperwork before the appointment rather than at the gate.
Seasonal Boca Raton, June to November and back again
Boca Raton adds more seasonal residents than any other city in Palm Beach County, roughly 11,400 on the 2020 count. That creates two hard peaks. October through December is open-the-house work: batteries, filters, bulbs, touch-up paint, a TV back on the wall, locks rekeyed after a summer of cleaners and repair visits. April and May is close-up work in reverse.
Storm season runs June 1 through November 30, which for an absent owner means the house sits closed for the whole of it. We put existing panels up before a named storm and take them down after, clean tracks, secure patio furniture and planters, and photograph the property before it closes. Permanent storm protection and post-storm repairs go to the licensed trades we refer out.
What we do in Boca Raton
- Interior PaintingInterior repaints for homes and condos county wide. Clean lines, covered floors, and coatings picked for humid rooms.Interior Painting in Boca Raton
- Rekey LocksRekeying existing locks to a new key for new owners, seasonal returns, and rental turnovers. One key for the whole home.Rekey Locks in Boca Raton
- TV MountingTVs mounted level and anchored properly, with masonry anchors on CBS block walls and cables concealed in surface raceway.TV Mounting in Boca Raton
- Furniture AssemblyFlat pack furniture assembled, levelled, and anchored, with all packaging removed when we leave.Furniture Assembly in Boca Raton
- Exterior PaintingExterior repaints on CBS stucco, front doors, and trim, matched to your HOA approved palette and timed around the wet season.See what is included
- Cabinet and Door PaintingKitchen cabinet and interior door refinishing. Doors come off, get degreased and sanded, and go back on with a hard, washable finish.See what is included
Streets and communities we cover in Boca Raton
Not a complete list, and not every address in Boca Raton falls inside the city limits. If yours is not here, call and ask.
Neighborhoods
- Old Floresta
- Pearl City
- Boca Villas
- Camino Gardens
- Golden Triangle
- Por La Mar
- Spanish River Land
- Tunison Palms
- Boca Riviera
- Winfield Park
Communities and associations
- Century Village at Boca Raton
- Boca Del Mar
- Whisper Walk
- Boca Pointe
- Broken Sound
- Woodfield Country Club
- Royal Palm Yacht & Country Club
ZIP codes: 33431, 33432, 33433, 33434, 33486, 33487, 33496
Questions from Boca Raton
Can you paint the exterior of a house in Old Floresta?
Yes, and the surface matters here. Mizner-era stucco needs a compatible coating system and careful crack preparation, not a heavy film that traps moisture. Pecky cypress ceilings and beams are better cleaned and sealed than painted over. We look at what is actually on the house, quote it up front, and tell you if a section should be left alone.
Do you work inside Century Village at Boca Raton?
Regularly. Those 33434 units are compact one and two bedroom condos built between 1970 and 1995, so we size everything to fit the room and the stair. We get on the visitor list, keep a certificate of insurance available for the office, and work inside the community's posted hours. Several units in one day is normal for us.
My Broken Sound association wants approval before I repaint. Can you help?
We will match to the palette your board has approved and give you the product name and color code in writing so the submission is simple. We also take before and after photos you can send the architectural committee. What we will not do is start an exterior job before the approval is in hand.
How do you handle gate access in gated Boca Raton communities?
You add us to your visitor list, or the management office does, and we arrive with the technician name that matches. For association work we send the certificate of insurance and any vendor form ahead of the visit. It sounds small, but it is the single most common reason a first appointment gets wasted here.
Can you rekey a Boca Del Mar condo after closing?
Yes. Rekeying the existing cylinders makes every old key useless, which matters after a resale where the key history is unknown. We cut you a fresh set, check the strike and screws, and can add a battery-powered keypad deadbolt so cleaners and family never need a metal key. Mailbox locks can go on the same visit.
Do you mount TVs on the block walls common in Boca Raton?
Yes. Nearly every wall here is concrete block or a furred-out layer over block, so we probe for the real substrate before drilling and use masonry anchors rated for the panel weight. We level the bracket, tidy the cable, and confirm the association's rules on drilling a shared wall before the appointment.
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