Winterization
Handis winterization is the four-service track that gets a Seattle-area home ready before the wet, dark, wind-prone half of the year arrives — outdoor faucet and pipe insulation before the first hard freeze, late-fall gutter winterization after bigleaf maple and alder drop, deck and patio furniture stow-away before the November storms, and storm prep with plywood for the bomb cyclones the Pacific Northwest gets every few seasons. From $200 for a single straightforward hose-bib visit to $1,500 for a full pre-storm prep on a larger home with eight window cuts of plywood and tree trimming. Peak booking window is mid-September through mid-November; we still run visits later, but past mid-November the work shifts from preventing damage to catching it.
Services
Winterization Pricing
Final pricing depends on home size, scope, and which winterization services you book. Bundled visits cost less than the same services booked one-by-one. Each child page lists detailed pricing for that service. Request a free estimate for an accurate quote.
Tell us the home size and which winterization services you need — we will quote the visit.
Why Seattle Homeowners Book Handis for Winterization
Winterization in Seattle fails three predictable ways. Too late and the hose bib already cracked. Too early and the gutter you cleared in September is full of bigleaf-maple debris by Halloween. Wrong scope and you spent the visit on weatherstripping while the sump pump float was sticking and a storm was three days out. Our four winterization services are sized to the actual Pacific Northwest weather year — leaf-drop, first freeze, atmospheric river, bomb cyclone — and the tech who arrives in October has done a thousand of these visits and knows which item on the list matters most for this house in this week.
Estimate
Tell us the home size, the rough age, which winterization services you are thinking about (faucet/pipe, gutter, furniture, storm prep), and any PNW specifics — number of hose bibs, whether there is a crawlspace, how much outdoor furniture is on the deck, how many tree branches overhang the roof. We send a clear estimate.
What Our Customers Say
Recent winterization reviews from verified Seattle-area customers.
We booked all four winterization services in October. Hose bibs covered, gutters cleared after the bigleaf drop, patio furniture moved into the garage, plywood pre-cut and labeled for the front-facing windows. The November bomb cyclone took two big alder branches down on the side yard but the windows survived and the house took on zero water. Felt like a different relationship with winter.
Sammamish hillside home, three hose bibs, irrigation backflow, exposed pipes in the crawl. The October visit covered everything I could see and the crawl walk found a run I had no idea was exposed. December freeze hit and not one thing cracked. Worth every dollar.
We host Thanksgiving and the back patio is part of the spread until then. Handis scheduled the deck stow-away the day after Thanksgiving — cushions in zip bags into the garage rafters, umbrella down and stowed, grill propane disconnected, fire pit cover on, planters lined up under the eave. Took two hours, looked like the patio was put to bed properly.
November bomb cyclone forecast hit on a Tuesday for a Thursday landfall. Handis was at the house Wednesday morning. Two big windows on the west elevation got plywood, the maple branch that had been a worry all summer got trimmed, the patio got stowed in twenty minutes. Power went out for three days. House came through clean.
West Seattle craftsman with a basement and a sump. The fall gutter visit caught a downspout that had separated from the underground drain — water was pouring at the foundation in every rainstorm. They re-tied it, ran a flow test, and sent the photo report. Basement stayed dry through the worst week of February.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Handis winterization services — pricing, scope, scheduling, what each visit covers, and what routes to a licensed Washington L&I contractor.