OBrien Handyman Services

OBrien Handyman Services is a one-man Peabody operation — owner Mike O'Brien says he's been doing home repairs for more than 40 years — that reviewers reach for on the kind of job other trades won't touch: a stuck storm door, a mangled lock, a sliding door that's stopped tracking right. On Angi, where all 15 reviews on file live, the rating sits at 5.0 from 26 ratings, and the written record — while dated, running from 2014 to a newest review in October 2022 — tells a consistent story. Doors come up again and again. In a 2019 review, a customer needed a sliding glass door fixed along with a list of other small projects and called the price reasonable and the work quick; in a 2014 review, someone had a lock fixed on a mangled door specifically to avoid replacing it, and O'Brien stuck to the agreed price even though the job ran longer than expected. A 2019 review describes a doors job that hit real obstacles — bad weather and a worker who quit mid-project — that O'Brien still saw through and made right. Deck and porch repairs turn up too, including one in a 2014 review at the YWCA in Malden. One touch keeps showing up: in a 2014 review describing a gutter cleaning, O'Brien sent the customer photos of each section afterward since they couldn't see the roof themselves. His own website adds pressure washing, drywall and water-damage repair, and custom woodwork to the mix, though those aren't confirmed in the reviews shown here. Angi also lists an HIC trade license number for the business, but that number is self-reported and not registry-verified — worth confirming directly. With nothing on file more recent than October 2022, it's worth a quick call to check current availability and pricing before booking.