EXP Property Maintenance

Mike recently completed a whole range of jobs around the house for us including replacing lounge wall lights, and numerous bits of plumbing and carpentry. He responded promptly to my initial enquiry and arrived at the appointed time. He was very personable, tidy in his work and completed everything to a very high standard. I would not hesitate to recommend Mike to anyone looking for handyman services.

Excellent work from Mike - he dismantled and re-assembled our sliding wardrobe unit perfectly into its new position, replaced coving and skirting boards, re-positioned electrical sockets and then painted it all to a very high standard. We now have a beautiful and much better-proportioned bedroom. Oh, and then he painted the landing, stairs and hallway and fitted it around my enforced covid isolation. And he leaves his workspace tidy at the end of each day. We would most definitely recommend Mike - he is personable and friendly, he keeps his word, does a really good job and offers sound advice when needed. Can't fault his service.

Mike has helped us on 2 large household projects (utility refurbishment and Living room decorating plus adding back in period features) and a long list of smaller jobs from repairing loose floorboards, repairing and fitting lights to fixing our toilet cisterns. Every job no matter how big or small was carried out meticulously and to a high standard. Mike was always ready to work around our requests or problem solve and seems to have the equipment to assist with just about any job! He also makes helpful suggestions when he spots things that need doing (e.g. the fact that bees seemed to be flying into our brickwork - he promptly cemented up the holes). We really valued his flexibility to enable us to add to his list when new things emerged in our new house that needed fixing. He was a pleasure to have in our home (leaving a great impression on our children!). We hope Mike will be able to continue to help us out in years to come. We are very happy with our new living room, which now has coving, picture rails and a ceiling rose. Thanks to Mike's suggestion of adding embellishments, our built-in bookshelves also now look smarter. The decorating was done to a very high standard. Our utility room now has much neater pipework, new cupboards (including a purpose-built cupboard for housing the boiler), a sink, worktop, ceiling light and boxed up piping. It's quite a transformation - Thank you Mike!

Mike had a challenge. Access to the missing piece of bargeboard was tricky because the boundary fence is very close to that side of the house. He came up with a solution that made his life more difficult than if the access had been straightforward but he got the job done without complaining. His attention to detail is apparent and pleasing. Despite the job taking longer than I expected (because of the access issues) his good humor carried the day. I will definitely be asking Mike to quote for some other jobs.

Initially asked Mike to quote for what would have been a tricky and expensive repair on a hardwood conservatory, however, on seeing job Mike came up with an alternative solution which was much cheaper to implement and looks as good as new.

Mike did a great job painting the house in a punishing heat wave and along the way fixed a bunch of issues left by window fitters. He did a great job and the house looks amazing.

A survey of the house that we were buying identified an issue with the facia board on part of the house. We contacted Michael who carried out a thorough investigation and provided a detailed report of what was wrong and suggested solutions to fix the problem, together with a detailed quote. Having finally moved in some months later we asked Michael to carry out the work to fix the issue. Michael's approach was very thorough and he did a first-class job installing a new facia. Michael has an eye for detail and took his time to get the job done right. He also made a point of explaining what he was doing and explaining why. Not the cheapest, but you get what you pay for, and we will use him again if we have any more issues that need sorting. I would recommend him without hesitation.

We have a sofa in a sort of 1950s retro style that had two of its legs buggered--one very badly, rendering it quite unusable--and got in touch with Mike to see what he could do (as well as sort out a couple of other odd jobs around our flat). And he was excellent: there was a bit of back-and-forth on email to work out some of the details of the challenge: I sent a photo, he asked for a measurement, and then he got to work thinking about how he might address the problem--which he did by attaching two wooden strips its underside, and screwing in four new artificial feet that take the weight off the damaged legs entirely, so the sofa is functioning perfectly well once again. So an imaginative bespoke solution to an irritating problem--and Mike was very easy to deal with, both over email, and in person when he showed up to wrestle directly with the sofa. I'm very pleased, and would certainly hire him again.