Central New Jersey · Lakewood, Toms River, Manchester, Brick, and Howell

A decent person who shows up.

Handy Menchs is the van for the list on the fridge — a closet, a sconce, the faucet that won’t quit. Lakewood to Brick. We come, we look, we do the work. The photos below are the jobs, not a catalog shoot.

Name a repair when you’re ready. Nothing is booked from the form.

See the work About the shop

Handyman sanding a door on a work table in the garage.

Name it

Search the quote list the way you’d tell a neighbor. Or just describe it.

We look

Nothing is booked from the form. We call, we come by, we confirm the number.

We do the list

The job you asked for, and the two sitting next to it if they should be done together.

The work

Before, after, and the in-between.

Drag the sliders. Ladders are still in some of the shots. That’s the point.

Same room after recessed lights and a new chandelier, ladder still out.

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Living room lighting

Recessed cans and a fixture that belongs in the room — not the one that came with the lease.

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Same closet with painted shelves installed.

Empty closet with new drywall and no shelves.

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Closet shelves

From a painted box to shelves you can actually use.

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Same wall with metal circle and rectangle art hung in a grid.

Living room sofa with an empty wall above it.

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Hung the wall

Measured, leveled, and on the studs. Not a Saturday of extra holes.

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Same corner with black house number 13 installed.

Gray siding corner with no house number.

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House numbers

The 13 that was missing. Small job, first thing a visitor sees.

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Same closet with a door hung and hardware on.

Open framed closet around a water heater with no door.

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Heater closet door

The water heater had a hole. It has a door now.

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Same pipe primed and painted gray, paper still taped to the siding.

Heavily rusted outdoor water pipe on white vinyl siding.

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Outdoor pipe

Rusted iron, prepped and painted. The hose bib stays.

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Finished lantern mount beside the front door and house number.

Outdoor lantern on vinyl siding with a gap at the mounting block.

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Front sconce

New lantern on a block, caulked to the vinyl.

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Same room with wood slat walls, a black fireplace, and scaffolding for the chandelier.

Two-story living room with a bare fireplace opening.

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Great room wall

Slat wall, fireplace surround, fixture going up. Two-story, not a sticker job.

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Assembled black three-drawer rolling cabinet between two sofas.

Flat-pack cabinet parts and frames on a living room rug.

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The rolling cabinet

Parts on the rug in the morning. Drawers that roll by afternoon.

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Finished pass-through with butcher-block top and glass pendants.

Pass-through with bar stools and paint cans still on the floor.

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Butcher-block bar

Opened the wall. Butcher block and pendants.

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Dining room with a new hanging glass fixture over the table.

interior

Dining fixture

Hung, leveled, and on the box. Not a wobble.

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exterior

Windows after dark

New units in. The ladder came down when the lights went on.

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New cedar dumpster enclosure at an office building parking lot.

commercial

Office dumpster screen

Commercial: a fence that hides the trash and keeps it on the pad.

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Storm door with a long crack in the glass and a ladder on the stoop.

exterior

Storm-door glass

The crack you could see from the stoop.

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Vinyl siding on a gable pulled loose from the house.

exterior

Blown siding

A storm peeled a course off the gable. This is the call.

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Asphalt shingles lifted and buckled along a roof ridge.

exterior

Lifted shingles

Wind got under the ridge. We document, then we patch.

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Kitchen range with a drywall hood box being built above it.

interior

Range hood box

Framed, hung, mudded. The hood goes on after the wall is a wall.

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interior

Kitchen ceiling

Patch, tape, mud. Then the can lights look like they were always there.

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Crawlspace with support jacks, masonry piers, and lumber cribbing.

interior

Crawlspace jacks

Piers, cribbing, the work nobody photographs for Instagram.

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Square cut in a ceiling exposing an HVAC duct above a closet.

interior

Ceiling chase

Opened the lid, found the duct, closed it when the HVAC was done.

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interior

Tub spout

Water behind the escutcheon. That’s the leak, not the drip.

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From the jobs

What it’s like when we leave.

“He did the closet the same day. Measured twice. No extra holes in the drywall.”
Dana · Brick

“Showed up when he said, stopped the running toilet, and mentioned the caulk before I did.”
Michael · Toms River

“House numbers, a sconce, a sticking door. The small list, finished, no runaround.”
Leah · Lakewood

“The dumpster screen at the office looks like it belongs there. In and out.”
Steve · Howell

The shop

Not a franchise. A mensch with a van.

mensch (n.) — a decent person. The kind who shows up. Licensed trades get flagged before you send. If you’re in Lakewood, Toms River, Manchester, Brick, and Howell, we’re already driving past.

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