Jose A Roman, working out of Chester

JRHandyWork LLC is run by Jose A Roman out of Chester, Pennsylvania. It is a hands-on business: the person who answers the phone is the person who comes out to look at the job, prices it, and does the work. There is no salesman in the middle and no crew of strangers showing up at your door.

The work covers the whole house. Inside that means renovations, kitchen and bathroom remodeling, painting, drywall repair, flooring and tile, doors and windows, and the general repairs that pile up — a door that sticks, a hinge pulled out of a cabinet, a hole in the wall. Outside it means porches, siding repairs, trim, exterior painting and the rest of the envelope. And when a job leaves a pile behind — old cabinets, torn-out drywall, a garage or basement somebody wants emptied — that gets loaded up and hauled off too.

Chester and Philadelphia are full of old rowhouses and twins, and old houses need a different touch than new ones: plaster that has to be worked rather than cut, framing that is out of square, floors that have settled. That is the kind of work JRHandyWork does most.

Estimates are free. You get a clear price before anything starts, and the work is done properly and cleaned up after. If the job is small, say so — those are welcome too.