Handyman Services in Derby

Two very different Derbys, two different job lists

Derby's inner suburbs — Normanton, Pear Tree, Litchurch — are largely solid-wall Victorian terraces, many built before damp-proof courses were standard, so a lot of the work there follows on from damp: ventilation, minor repairs around failed pointing, and jobs that come out of a damp survey. The University of Derby has around 18,900 students, and the rental and student churn around the university and nearby streets keeps end-of-tenancy work steady. Out at Chellaston and Oakwood — Oakwood alone added roughly 4,000 homes on former Chaddesden Common farmland in the 1980s and 90s, and Chellaston has several new developments under construction now — the jobs skew towards flat-pack assembly, TV mounting and garden work on properties that are newer and often smaller than in the city centre.

Covering Derby from DE24

Based on Glossop Street in DE24, our Derby handymen cover DE1 through DE24 — from the terraced streets of Normanton and Pear Tree, where on-street parking can add time to a job, out to Mickleover, Littleover, Chaddesden, Spondon and the newer estates at Chellaston and Oakwood.

Wards covered: Abbey, Allestree, Alvaston, Arboretum, Blagreaves, Chaddesden, Chellaston and Shelton Lock, Darley, Littleover, Mackworth, Mickleover, Oakwood, Normanton, Sinfin and Osmaston, Spondon. Postcode districts: DE1, DE21, DE22, DE23, DE24.