Handyman in Astoria

I take jobs in Astoria all the time — it’s home turf in Queens for me. The classic Astoria booking isn’t one job, it’s a list: install the window A/C ($90), fix the door that won’t latch, stop the running toilet ($110), hang the shelves. I quote the whole list flat from your photos, and the minimum visit is $90.

Astoria housing: walk-ups, family houses, and stairs

Astoria is mostly low-rise: brick walk-up apartment buildings, attached two- and three-family houses, and a growing crop of newer mid-rise condos near the waterfront. Practical consequences:

• Window A/C is a way of life. Most buildings here don’t have central air, so every June my calendar fills with window A/C installs — $90 in, $70 out in the fall, secured properly and to code. If you’re wondering what “properly” means, I wrote up the NYC window A/C rules.
• Older buildings, older quirks. Prewar and midcentury walk-ups mean doors that swelled shut decades ago, radiator-adjacent plaster cracks, and bathrooms due for a re-caulk. Door planing from $110, tub re-caulk $120, plaster and drywall patching from $140 with paint.
• Family homes = homeowner lists. In the two- and three-family houses, I often work for owners keeping a rental unit in shape between tenants — locksets from $95, faucets from $130, light fixtures from $110. Landlords, I have a dedicated page for exactly this.
• Managed buildings have house rules. The newer condos and managed co-ops near the waterfront come with work-hour windows and management-office formalities. Tell me the rules when you book and I’ll plan the visit around them, so paperwork never stalls the job.

The one-visit punch list

Here’s the math that makes Astoria clients happy: my minimum visit is $90, so bundling beats booking piecemeal. A typical combined visit might be a window A/C install, a dimmer swap ($85), and anchoring a dresser ($90) — one trip, one flat quote, and the whole apartment works again. Cleanup is included; I don’t leave a single foam peanut or drywall crumb behind.

Everything is priced publicly on my pricing page — materials extra, but the labor number you get by text is the number you pay.

How to book

Photos first. Send me shots of everything on your list — even the embarrassing stuff, I’ve seen worse — and I reply personally with a flat price for the visit. Not a dispatcher, not a call center, me. Then we pick a slot.

I work evenings and Sundays, which fits Astoria’s shift-work and family schedules better than banker’s hours. If it can’t wait, check same-day availability. And if you’ve got another place nearby, I cover all of Queens, including Long Island City just down the boulevard.

One text with photos, one flat price, one visit that clears the list. That’s the deal.