Handyman in Guide Post

Handyman Ashington has been helping homeowners, tenants and landlords around the Wansbeck since 2018, and Guide Post is one of the closest places we work. It sits only about two miles south of our Ashington base, across the river, so a visit here rarely means a long wait or a lengthy drive for us.

We are a family-run team and we genuinely mean it when we say no job is too small. In Guide Post that often means a dripping kitchen tap, a back door that has dropped on its hinges, a few pictures and a mirror to hang, or a wardrobe that arrived in forty pieces. We also take on larger work such as replacing skirting, patching plaster or freshening up a hallway with paint. If you have a list rather than a single task, tell us about all of it and we will plan the time properly.

Homes and property in Guide Post

Guide Post grew up alongside neighbouring Choppington and Scotland Gate as part of the old mining landscape south of the Wansbeck, and the housing still reflects that history. You will find brick terraces and former colliery cottages, rows of council-built semis from the middle of the last century, and newer private estates added on the edges of the village in more recent decades.

Each type brings its own small headaches. Older terraces tend to have timber sash or early uPVC windows that need new seals, handles or hinges, and internal doors that have shifted as the building settled. Mid-century semis often have original pipework running along walls and through cupboards, which is why boxing in and tidying up plumbing comes up so often here. On the newer estates the issues are different: settlement cracks in fresh plaster, doors that need planing once the heating has dried the timber, and garden fences that were installed quickly by the developer.

Guide Post is inland, so salt spray is less of a concern than on the coast, but the exposed open ground between here and the river means fences, gates and shed roofs take a battering in winter storms.

Jobs we are often asked to do in Guide Post

Most calls from Guide Post fall into a few familiar groups, and they line up closely with the kind of houses in the village.

• Doors and windows – easing doors that catch, replacing worn handles and lock cylinders, and fitting new draught seals. See our doors and windows page.
• Plumbing repairs – dripping taps, running toilets, sealant around baths and connecting washing machines through our plumbing service.
• Tidying exposed pipes – neat timber boxing that can be painted to match, explained on our boxing in pipework page.
• Fences and gardens – replacing blown panels, rehanging gates and cutting back overgrown borders with our gardening services.

We also get plenty of requests from people moving into the village who want everything sorted in one go: curtain poles up, flat-pack built, a few shelves fitted and a smoke alarm changed. That kind of moving-in list suits us well, because it lets us bring the right fixings and get the house feeling settled in a single visit.