Finnegan & Sons Home Improvement & Handy Man Services

Finnegan & Sons is Chris Finnegan's Reading-based handyman operation, and after nearly five years and 38 Google reviews the throughline is breadth — gutters, fences, siding, a backyard gazebo, a mouse infestation, even a stuck garbage disposal and a broken scooter. For a punch list of unrelated small jobs, this is built to be the one call that handles all of them. The amount of detail in the reviews is unusual for a handyman: people describe him explaining his plan before starting, flagging extra problems he finds rather than just doing the extra work and billing for it, and showing up the next day for urgent requests. Recent reviews keep the same pattern — a May 2026 review describes chimney flashing repair and moss removal finished within days of the first call, and a February 2026 review describes him repairing a customer's snow thrower on the spot after selling them a used snowblower. Further back, reviews from 2021 through 2025 describe fence rebuilds and custom gates, whole-house painting, a gazebo assembly, pest extermination that avoided toxic materials around a pet, and gutter cleaning one customer called the best they'd had. Two reviews break the pattern: a 2024 review describes a missed appointment with no call to explain it, and a 2022 review calls the owner rude and unprofessional, dismissing him as a jack-of-all-trades. A later reviewer speculated that one of the negative reviews might have come from a competitor rather than a customer — worth flagging, though nothing here confirms it either way. Given how many different trades show up across the reviews — fencing, siding, painting, pest control, masonry, waterproofing — it's worth being specific about what a given job actually requires, since coverage in the reviews is much deeper for some of those than others. He's a strong fit for a homeowner with a list of smaller, varied repairs who'd rather make one call than five — just confirm scheduling in writing given the one reported no-show.