Fix Fab & Landscaping

About Fix Fab & Landscaping

City Park sits along a bend of the Iowa River on the west side of town, its playground equipment and picnic shelters standing empty and rimed with frost most winter mornings, and the streets that back up to the park see some of the earliest snow in Iowa City simply because the river air keeps them cold. Fix Fab & Landscaping clears driveways and walks through that stretch of neighborhood, learning block by block which downspout floods a walk first and which drive holds ice longest in the shade. The river itself narrows the available daylight in December, the sun dropping behind the west bank trees earlier than it does on the open blocks farther from the water. That means an afternoon storm can leave a driveway in shadow and unmelted long after streets a mile away have dried off in the sun. Getting to those shaded drives before the freeze sets in hard is most of what separates a clear morning from a skating rink.