Mowers, snowblowers, chainsaws, trimmers and generators — tune-ups, no-start diagnosis and seasonal service.
Running a property in this part of New Hampshire means owning equipment, and equipment that sits for eight months at a time is equipment that does not want to start. The mower that ran fine last September will not fire in May. The snowblower that was fine in March is dead the morning of the first storm.
I work on the small gas equipment homeowners actually depend on — and most of the time the fix is cheaper than the trip to buy a replacement.
Most no-start calls come down to fuel. Ethanol-blended gas pulls in moisture and goes off in a few months, and what it leaves behind varnishes the inside of a carburetor and plugs the jets. Equipment that was put away in the fall with a full tank of untreated gas is the classic case.
So a no-start usually gets checked in this order: fuel condition, fuel delivery and carburetor, spark and plug, then air, compression and the safety interlocks — which is a common one, because a failed kill switch or a broken safety bail will stop a perfectly healthy engine from running.
The cheapest repair is the one you get ahead of. Spring service on a mower and fall service on a snowblower is a fraction of what an emergency repair costs when everything else in the valley has broken the same week.
Sometimes it is not. A cracked block, a scored cylinder or a seized engine on a low-end machine is usually the end of the story, and a new carburetor and a day of labor into a fifteen-year-old box-store mower is money you will not get back. I will tell you when that is where you are rather than run up a bill on a machine that is finished.
Questions
Either. Handheld equipment and walk-behind mowers are easy to drop off. For riders, big snowblowers or anything you cannot lift, ask about pickup when you call.
Usually a service — old fuel and a gummed carburetor. Getting it looked at before the next storm is far better than finding out during one.
Those are a different world of parts and diagnostics. Call and ask — if it is not something I should be taking on, I will say so.
Where
Based in Canaan and working roughly a 30-mile radius through Grafton County and into the surrounding towns. Pick your town for local detail, or see the full service area.
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