Comprehensive Handyman Services LLC

Dave Wolfenden runs Comprehensive Handyman Services out of Attleboro, and Google tells most of the story on its own: 62 ratings, every one of them five stars, and no negative reviews in the last six months. The company says it has been taking on jobs across Massachusetts and Rhode Island since 2020, and Wolfenden himself brings more than 20 years of construction and property-management experience to each visit. What people call him for skews toward fix-and-finish work rather than big remodels: an exterior door and shiplap ceiling built under an existing addition, a waterproofing system tucked under a deck, a sliding glass door a reviewer said now "slides like butter," and a mailbox post rebuilt in frozen ground after a car took it out. One recurring theme in the reviews is that a job rarely balloons in price even when it balloons in scope — a customer who called about wood-siding and trim rot in 2024 had him back a year later for more of the same house, ants included, and came away calling both visits professional and reasonably quoted. The last six months of reviews keep pointing at the same two things: quote-to-completion measured in days rather than weeks, and next-day response when something like a jammed sliding door or a smashed mailbox needs fixing fast. A few third-party listings echo the reputation — a BuildZoom score of 94, a "top 1%" badge from a business-awards site — but those, along with a BBB-accreditation mention on one handyman directory, aren't backed by an independently confirmed BBB profile in what turned up here, so they read more as marketing than verified credentials. For smaller repair and installation jobs — doors, siding and trim, decks, closets — this is a contractor with a genuinely multi-year paper trail of repeat, satisfied customers rather than a handful of recent five-star reviews. Worth confirming licensing and insurance details directly before booking, since third parties describe the company as "licensed and insured" but no registry confirmation showed up independently.