Handyman repairs in Folkestone and the surrounding patch.

What's covered

• Sticking doors re-planed and re-hung; frame movement corrected where possible
• Squeaking stairs and floorboards - screw down from below where cellar or under-stair access exists, top-fix and colour-match where not
• Cracked plaster patch-and-paint, hairline to 5mm; larger cracks flagged as movement not decoration
• Dropped shelves re-fixed with correct wall-fixing for the substrate (stud, brick, block, plasterboard-and-dot-and-dab)
• Curtain poles and blinds - correct fixing for solid or hollow wall, level, load-rated
• Kitchen unit door adjustments, hinge replacements, drawer runner swaps

Pricing

£95 call-out, first hour included, £45 per hour after that. Fixed-price jobs quoted where scope is well-defined (a single shelf, a single door). Most Folkestone-area snag-list visits fit inside a half-day.

Folkestone-specific notes

Older Victorian and Edwardian stock on the steeper streets has settled walls, drifted lintels, and mixed-substrate walls (lath-and-plaster, then dot-and-dab layered on top during a later refurbishment). A converted Leas villa flat can have three different wall types in one room, from the original build and from whatever the conversion touched. I test each fixing point before drilling - the difference between a shelf that holds and a shelf that drops is knowing what is behind the plaster.