The Split Between Old and New
Across the wider Albuquerque service area, the housing stock centers on 1979, with most of it going up in the 1960s and 70s. Placitas doesn't follow that pattern. The median year built out here is 1999, two decades newer than the city-wide figure. That gap matters more than it sounds like it should. A door installed in 1975 and a door installed in 1999 use different track hardware, different opener mounting, and in a lot of cases different spring systems entirely. If you're calling because something on your door looks or sounds off, the fix on a Placitas house is often not the fix we'd bring to an older neighborhood closer to town, and we plan the truck stock for the call accordingly.
This Area's Housing
Placitas has around 2,181 households, smaller than many of the areas we serve, and a median household income of $110,268 - well above the $72,188 median across the wider service area. That combination usually means larger two- and three-car garages, heavier steel doors, and openers with the belt-drive or jackshaft setups that came standard in higher-end late-90s construction rather than the older chain-drive units still common in older parts of town. We're in a cold-moderate climate band here, and at Placitas' elevation the temperature swings are sharper than they are down in the valley, which puts more stress-and-thaw cycling on weatherseal and on any hardware that isn't rated for it.
