Handyman and Home Maintenance in Hoboken, New Jersey
Nineteenth century rowhouses and brownstones with no yard and no garage, where essentially all of the maintenance list is interior.
The houses in Hoboken
Hoboken is a mile square of attached rowhouses and brownstones, most built between the 1860s and the 1910s, plus converted industrial buildings and newer construction along the waterfront. Party walls, narrow footprints, tall ceilings, steep interior stairs, original plaster, and heat that is often still radiator. Almost no house here has a yard, a driveway, or a garage.
Dense, walkable and flat, on the Hudson opposite Manhattan, with the Palisades cliff rising at the western edge. Nothing about the exterior of a rowhouse is the owner working alone: facades face the street and the rear faces a shared yard or airshaft.
What we see most in Hoboken
The list is almost entirely interior
No gutters to clear, no deck to seal, no lawn furniture to store. What there is instead is wall mounting, shelving, assembly, plaster repair, fixture work and every kind of storage problem, in a space where every inch counts.
Mounting into old, unknown walls
A rowhouse wall might be plaster over lath, plaster over brick, or brick with furring. Hanging a television or a heavy shelf correctly depends entirely on knowing which, and getting it wrong in a party wall is expensive.
Storage is the real problem
No basement worth the name, no garage, no attic. Custom shelving, closet systems, over-door and wall-mounted solutions and careful assembly are the single most requested category of work in Hoboken apartments and rowhouses.
Stairs, radiators and old fixtures
Steep original stairs that need handrails tightened, radiator valves that weep, and hundred-year-old plumbing fixtures that need a washer rather than a replacement. All small, all recurring.
Where we work in Hoboken
We cover the whole of Hoboken, including the waterfront, Uptown, the Washington Street corridor and the southwest. Service runs Monday-Friday, 8:30am-4:30pm. We do not offer same-day or emergency work, which is what lets us keep scheduled appointments for the people who are on a plan.
Most requested here
- TV and picture hanging
- Furniture and product assembly
- Drywall repairs
- Minor plumbing repairs
- Grab bars and safety upgrades
Everything on the full service list is available in Hoboken, covered by your plan hours.
Plans for Hoboken homeowners
Basic Maintenance at $249/month, Premium Maintenance at $399/month, Quarterly Maintenance at $499/quarter, or a single visit at $549. Pick your first visit while you sign up, on a live calendar, with the same pro each time.
Questions? Call 866-394-4443. NJ HIC Registration #13VH14016000.
Nearby towns we serve
See the full service area , every town we cover.