Handyman & Home Repair in Canaan, NH

• Doors, trim and rot repair in older village and Canaan Street houses
• Porch rebuilds, additions and updates on lake camps
• Spring mower service and fall snowblower service
• Gravel driveway regrading and pothole repair after mud season
• Washer, dryer and dishwasher installs, including dryer vent rebuilds
• Punch lists ahead of listing a house or closing up a camp

Canaan's housing runs the full range, and each part of it fails in its own way. The old houses along Canaan Street have settled into a century and a half of frost cycles, so doors and windows move and trim opens up. The camps around Canaan Street Lake and Goose Pond were built seasonally and then lived in year-round, which is how you end up with soft porch framing and windows nobody has replaced since the eighties.

Out on the back roads it is driveways and drainage — long gravel drives that wash every spring and a spring thaw that finds every low spot on a property.

I am based in Canaan and Canaan is inside the roughly 30-mile radius I work. That means no games about minimum job sizes — but it also means the honest advice is to save up the small things. A list of five items handled in one visit costs you less than five separate trips, and it is a better use of both of our days.