Short answer
Randleman is home base: our office is on Deerrun Drive, and we remodel and repair houses throughout town. Its mill-village origin explains a lot about the houses here. A mill went up around 1830 and the town incorporated as Randleman Mills in 1880, and today the median home dates to 1981, so older and newer houses sit side by side.
Repairs that come with a town this old
The town had 1,982 housing units in 2020, about 5.6 percent of them vacant. Houses that sit empty or change hands after decades usually need the basics before anything cosmetic: rotted trim and sills, soft floors over the crawl space, windows that stick or leak and exterior doors that no longer seal. We start with those, since they protect everything inside. From there, a phased remodel works well for most owners. DataUSA puts owner occupancy at 61.5 percent and the median home value at $184,700, so we usually plan the kitchen and baths as separate phases rather than one large project.
Making a Randleman home easier to live in as you age
Randolph County has 20.7 percent of residents aged 65 or older, according to QuickFacts. Many owners here want to stay in the house they know. We widen doorways, add handrails on both sides of stairs, build zero-step or ramped entries and convert tubs to low-curb showers with grab bars. Doing a few of these at a time spreads the cost and lets the house change as needs do.
The bathroom is usually where these changes pay off first. A low-curb or curbless shower, a fold-down seat, a handheld shower head on a slide bar and grab bars set on solid blocking make bathing safer without making the room look clinical. Lever faucets and a comfort-height toilet finish the job, and our checklist covers the rest. Most of these cost little extra while the walls are open.
Permits, distances and the lake north of town
Randolph County Building Inspections handles permits for Randleman, and we file through its ePermits system. Randleman is 20.1 road miles south of Greensboro, about 27 minutes, and Asheboro is roughly 7 miles off, Archdale roughly 10. Randleman Lake, a Deep River reservoir, runs from just northwest of town to east of High Point; Greensboro has drawn treated water from it since October 4, 2010. The town is also home of the NASCAR Petty family, and the Richard Petty Museum operated here from 2003 to 2014. Homes on the lake side of town are a fair fit for a porch or deck that faces the water.