That mix means a lot of 20-plus-year-old kitchens and a lot of custom equipment: built-in refrigerators, double wall ovens, warming drawers, the things a dispatch service will send an unprepared tech to. The village also runs its own water system, with a new well added in a 2022 upgrade, so your appliances see groundwater rather than lake water.
What I see in Lakewood Village homes
- Late-1990s custom homes
- The bulk of the village. Original kitchens now 25 years old, often with a second refrigerator, and dryer vent runs long enough to need a real cleanout.
- 1970s originals
- The earliest houses on the peninsula, on their third set of appliances and with older wall ovens that are still worth repairing.
- Waterfront homes
- Roughly half the village. Big kitchens, built-in refrigerators and wine coolers, and a preference for fixing over replacing when the built-in matches the cabinetry.
- Lakewood Village Estates
- American Legend's newer 80 and 90 foot lots. New equipment, first failures a few years out.
What I fix in Lakewood Village
Questions from Lakewood Village
- Do you work on built-in refrigerators in Lakewood Village?
- Yes. Several of the waterfront homes here have them. Parts can take longer, and I'll tell you the timeline before you commit.
- How far away are you?
- About six minutes. The village is just south of FM 720, and I can usually get there the same day.
- Our water is from the village well. Does that matter?
- Groundwater tends to carry more minerals and sediment than lake water. It shows up as scale in dishwashers and grit in washer inlet screens. Nothing dramatic, but worth a maintenance look every so often.
- Is it worth fixing a 25-year-old wall oven?
- Usually yes if the parts are available, and for most of the brands in these houses they are. An element or igniter is a small fraction of replacing a wall oven and the cabinetry around it.
Small village, big kitchens, and a technician six minutes away who answers his own phone. That's the deal.