Those Pesky Projects

Those Pesky Projects is a one-person handyman business in Beverly run by Bill Roberts, who says he founded it after a 20-plus-year corporate IT management career. He covers general home repair, light carpentry, painting, and fixture and appliance work on the North Shore. A repeat customer's 2023 review credited Bill's carpentry work as precise and clean across several projects. In an earlier 2022 review, he installed an exterior railing into granite block stairs — a job that meant drilling eight holes into unforgiving stone — and the customer called the result picture-perfect. Other reviews from 2022 and 2023 describe him fixing a broken kitchen drawer quickly, assembling a new snowblower and fixing a storm door in one visit, and helping with a landscaping job that left a customer's yard looking transformed. One 2023 review, rating him 4 stars, still called him punctual and reasonably priced. There's nothing negative on record to flag — the lowest of his ten reviews is 4 stars, and reviewers repeatedly mention quick responses and fair pricing. For general home repair, carpentry fixes, or a full punch list of small jobs, the reviews across two years describe a reliable one-person operation that responds quickly, works cleanly, and charges fairly.