Handyman services
in Montgomery, OH.

The old village homes

The historic core along Montgomery Road and Remington has frame houses that predate almost everything else in the region, and they behave accordingly. Plaster over lath rather than drywall, so a standard anchor spins out and a plain joint-compound patch cracks again by spring. Original doors and trim that are worth repairing rather than replacing. Floors and frames that have moved enough over a century that nothing is truly square. We work on houses like this constantly and treat the original material as something to keep.

The colonials and ranches around it

Most of Montgomery's housing went up between the 1970s and the 1990s — two-story colonials, ranches and split-levels on well-established lots. The construction is sound; the fittings are simply old now. Bath and kitchen faucets long past dripping, worn outlets and switches, builder-grade light fixtures still hanging, hollow-core interior doors sagging on tired hinges, and decks from the 90s wanting rail and board repair. Every one of those is a routine flat-rate job.

Staying put, and doing it properly

A lot of Montgomery homeowners have been in the same house for decades and intend to stay, which brings a steady stream of comfort-and-safety work: grab bars anchored into real blocking instead of drywall anchors, handrails made solid, better lighting over stairs and in hallways, lever handles swapped in where round knobs have gotten stiff, and smoke and CO detectors replaced up at ceiling height. Most take under an hour and all of them are flat-priced.

• Plaster experience — anchored into framing, patched so it doesn't re-crack
• Original trim respected — matched and repaired rather than ripped out
• Anchored properly — grab bars and handrails go into blocking, never just drywall