If it's small and has an engine, Dennis fixes it. No showroom. No upsell. No corporate nonsense. Just a guy who's been doing this since before you owned your first mower.
Straightforward small engine work. Tune-ups, carb cleaning and rebuilds, pull-start replacements, blade balancing, fuel systems, ignition, no-start diagnostics. Dennis doesn't care what brand it is — Briggs, Honda, Stihl, Husqvarna, Echo, Toro, the off-brand one from the hardware store — if it's a small engine, he's had one on the bench before.
The Bench
Dennis started fixing small engines out of his garage in 1995 — back when a lawnmower was something you kept running, not something you replaced every three summers.
Thirty-one years later, he's still at it. Same trade. Same town. Same simple idea: the thing probably isn't broken — it just needs somebody who knows where to look.
Folks around Pensacola have been bringing their mowers, saws, trimmers and generators to Dennis for a generation now. Some of the customers who walked in during Clinton's first term are still walking in today — sometimes with the same mower, sometimes with their grown kid's mower.
Bring it in. Dennis will take a look, tell you what's wrong, tell you what it'll cost, and get it back to you running right. If it's not worth fixing, he'll tell you that too — straight, no runaround.
Easiest way to reach the shop. If Dennis is elbow-deep in a carburetor, leave a message and he'll call you back.
Call first for the shop address — Dennis will give you directions and let you know if he's got the bench space.
1. Call — tell Dennis what it's doing (or not doing).
2. Drop it off — during shop hours, Mon–Fri.
3. He diagnoses it — and calls you with the price before any work happens.
4. Pick it up running — most jobs turn around in a few days.
Facebook is the only place you'll find Dennis online — mostly photos of what's on the bench. The real conversation happens on the phone.