Local Handyman & Carpentry in Royal Leamington Spa

Leamington's Regency and Victorian houses are lovely to work in, but they come with high ceilings, deep skirting, tall alcoves and walls that have moved over the years. Shelving and storage in rooms like these needs to be properly sized and solidly fixed, especially into old plaster and soft brick. I make alcove shelves and cupboards to fit the room, and match existing skirting and mouldings where I can so the new work doesn't look out of place.

Plenty of Leamington's townhouses have been split into flats, and there are lots of rentals around Old Town, Clarendon Square and near the Parade, including student lets. If you're a landlord or letting agent, I can work through a list between tenants: sticking doors, loose handles and hinges, tired worktop edges, bathroom boxing-in and flat-pack furniture for a new let. Send me the list with photos and I'll tell you what I can get done in a visit.

Not every job needs a full refit. I fit vanity units and finish around them, box in toilet cisterns and pipework, replace skirting and window boards, and cut and fit worktops, including sink cut-outs. These are often the bits left behind after the main work is done, and they make the biggest difference to how a room feels.

A lot of handyman jobs in Leamington Spa come in as a mixed bag: a blind to put up, a wobbly banister, a door that needs a new latch, a shelf that's pulled out of crumbly plaster. Write them down, take a photo of each, and send them in one WhatsApp message. It's the easiest way for me to work out how long they'll take.

I also do small building and repair jobs, like making good after other trades, repairing a damaged doorframe or window board, or tidying up a garden step. I'm a handyman, carpenter and general builder, so it's the practical, smaller end of the work that I focus on.

Carpentry in Leamington Spa often means working with what's already there – matching an old moulding, scribing a shelf into a bowed wall or fitting a cupboard under a sloping ceiling in a converted flat. You can see more on my carpentry page.

Many terraces and townhouses here have narrow back gardens, and a simple deck can make them far more usable. I do decking installation for small spaces and repair existing decks with rotten or loose boards. Send a photo of the garden and rough sizes to get started.

I take on a short list of small plumbing and installation jobs, which landlords find especially useful between tenants. That covers tap replacement and minor leaks, toilet and cistern repairs, washing machine and dishwasher installation where the connections are already there, and silicone resealing when the old sealant around a bath or shower has gone mouldy or lifted.

These sit alongside my carpentry and repair work rather than replacing it – I'm not a plumbing company. For more detail, see my small plumbing jobs page. No gas or boiler work. I don't touch boilers, heating systems, gas hobs or gas pipework; you'll need a Gas Safe registered engineer for those.

I cover the whole of Royal Leamington Spa, including Old Town, the town centre around the Parade, Clarendon Square, Milverton, Lillington, Cubbington, Sydenham, Whitnash and Radford Semele. I'm based in Stratford-upon-Avon – here's my handyman page for Stratford-upon-Avon – and I also work regularly in Warwick, so if you've got jobs there too, take a look at my Warwick handyman and carpentry page.