Thomas Handyman LLC

About Thomas Handyman LLC

The old mansions along Grand Avenue west of downtown carry big, old-growth trees that bend low under a heavy wet snow, dropping ice onto the driveways and walks below before anyone's even had coffee. Thomas Handyman LLC clears those blocks with an eye on what the trees are doing overhead as much as what's underfoot — driveways plowed, walkways cleared to the concrete, de-icer laid down on the front steps where shade keeps the ice hanging on longest. A lot of the driveways here are older too, narrow and angled in ways a modern subdivision never is, which means the work is often closer to careful shoveling than straight plowing. Des Moines can swing from a gentle two-inch dusting to a heavy, wet, tree-bending snow within the same week, and this crew reads each storm on its own terms rather than running one routine. It's residential snow removal built for a neighborhood where the houses — and the trees around them — are older than most of the city.