The Story Behind Jersey City Handyman Pros

Jersey City is a peninsula city, wedged between the Hudson River and Upper New York Bay on one side and the Hackensack River and Newark Bay on the other, and its homes tell a long story. Downtown, the streets around Paulus Hook, Van Vorst Park, Hamilton Park and Harsimus Cove are lined with brick and brownstone row houses from the 1840s through the 1880s, many with original plaster, tall windows and built-in box gutters behind the cornice. Up on the Palisades in the Heights, and across Greenville, Bergen-Lafayette and the West Side, the blocks fill with two- and three-family frame houses from the late 1800s into the 1920s. Around Journal Square and along Kennedy Boulevard stand pre-war brick apartment buildings with steam heat, and along the waterfront in Newport and Exchange Place rise the glass towers built since the 1980s. Over all of it comes the weather of the harbor: hot, muggy summers, coastal storms, nor'easters and a winter that swings across freezing again and again.

That mix creates an endless supply of small repairs, and small repairs are exactly what's hard to get handled in a busy city. Bigger contractors are chasing gut renovations and have little interest in a sticking door or a running toilet. Meanwhile the list grows: the crack over the stairwell in a Hamilton Park row house, the downspout that dumps water against the foundation of a two-family in the Heights, the condo bathroom fan that's been buzzing for a year, the closet door in a Journal Square co-op that hasn't closed since the last owner. Finding one dependable person who shows up on time, quotes honestly and finishes the whole list is harder than it should be.

That's where we come in. We're a local Jersey City outfit, general liability insured, and we would rather earn your next call than stretch out this one. We give you a clear price before we start, plan your list into one organized visit, and work with the city's buildings in mind: respecting old plaster and trim, keeping water out of masonry and frame walls, and following the rules of co-op boards and condo managers. Wiring and plumbing connections are made by our licensed electricians and plumbers, so a new ceiling fan, a light fixture swap, a disposal or a new toilet gets finished in the same visit as the patching and mounting. One call covers it, and that's how a small local crew earns a permanent spot in your phone.

Our promises, plainly put

• The price you approve is the price you pay
• General liability insurance on every visit
• A real arrival time, not a half-day window
• Boots wiped, dust cleaned, trash hauled off
• Straight talk when a job belongs with a licensed trade
• Rooted here in Jersey City and the towns next door