Handyman and Home Improvement in Lafayette, NJ

It's the small stuff that costs real money over a winter. The draft at the window trim. The cold room over the garage. The gap under the front door you can see daylight through. Individually none of it feels urgent. Together it's a house that's harder to heat than it should be.

The fix is usually smaller and cheaper than people expect, because the problem is often air sealing, not the heating.

Doors, windows and weatherproofing

A door that latches in summer and not in winter is usually seasonal movement, and there's a right fix and a wrong fix. A window that's drafty at the trim is usually an air-sealing problem, not a window problem. A fogged double-pane means the seal has failed, and that's a glass unit replacement, not a repair — we'll say so plainly.

The cold room

A cold room usually isn't a heating problem. It's an air-sealing problem — gaps where pipes and vents pass through the envelope, a threshold that's gone, weatherstripping that's flattened. The fix is a fraction of what people assume it'll cost, and it's the kind of work that pays for itself before spring.

We don't install insulation and we don't work on heating systems. We seal the gaps that let the heat out in the first place.

How we work

We come find where the air is actually moving before we quote. There's no point replacing a window when the draft is at the trim, and we'd rather tell you that than sell you a window you don't need.