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The unglamorous jobs. A door that stopped closing properly. A catch that turns without engaging. A cupboard hinge that’s pulled out of the frame. The stuff that a full trade day-rate can’t justify but sits on a to-do list for two years.
Fixed price quoted up front after seeing photos and the postcode. No day-rate creep once a number’s agreed. Bands are a starting ring; the real number lands after we’ve seen the job.
| Band | Range | Typical fits |
|---|---|---|
| Small job | £45–£120 | One or two adjustments in a single visit - jammed door, wonky catch. |
| Half day | £120–£220 | Three to six small fixes across a house - the classic ‘can you look at all of these’ list. |
| Full day | £220–£380 | A full day’s to-do list, or a bigger single job (multi-door reseat, skirting run). |
| Larger jobs | £380+ | Multi-day punchlists for landlords and second-home owners - quoted per job. |
Dover’s post-war centre and the Victorian belt above the harbour have two dominant repair patterns. First, salt-humidity swelling - internal doors on the front elevation of a terrace above the seafront swell in autumn and jam. That’s a plane-and-adjust job, not a rehang. Second, the deep-frame settlement in the older stock along Victoria Park and Maison Dieu Road, where a hundred years of soft-brick movement means the frame is out of square and every catch is a fraction off - that’s a strike-plate re-mortice.
Neither is a difficult job for someone who knows what they’re looking at. Both are done wrong every day by full-day trades who’d rather rehang the whole door.
If the diagnosis on the day turns out to be a rewire behind a failing socket, a full structural crack across a load-bearing wall, damp under a rendered wall, or anything else that isn’t a handyman job - we tell you, we don’t charge, and we point you to who to call.
On every job
A proper job or you pay nothing 5% off for pensioners 10% off repeat jobs over £500Photos and postcode to hello@doverhandyman.co.uk, call 07763 100 477, or open WhatsApp. Same-day quote in most cases.