What are the opening hours?

Monday 8am - 5pm Tuesday 8am - 5pm Wednesday 8am - 5pm Thursday 8am - 5pm Friday 8am - 5pm

https://www.facebook.com/102428054926592/

Simon the Handyman Laurencekirk, Laurencekirk (2026)

05/06/2026

Hi Guys, it’s Friday… yay👍… it’s been once of those weeks where I have been outside doing garden maintenance.. the weather hasn’t been on my side but all projects have been completed successfully with happy clients.. you can’t ask for anything more. Today, the sun was out breaking through the clouds allowing the grass to start drying out… at my new clients for a full garden maintenance on both front and back garden areas.. the back garden caused issues especially being stabbed by “Monkey Puzzle Trees”..who were determined to stab me OUCH😩. Anyway, arrived early unloaded and had a feeling I was being watched behind the curtains.. “WHO’s this.. what’s he doing” etc etc, best not do my snake hip moves from yesterday doing the weeding while listening to Latin music as that would probably get the Police around plus, it was to early for the neighbours 😂. Luckily for me the front didn’t need much doing bar weeding in all the areas and remove the weeds from the block work drive… what a faff but all done👍. Good sweep up then headed to the back garden with all my equipment while doing the Samba, those snake hips of mine😂😂😂. The back garden was looking a touch hairy following rain and sunshine.. and the weeds growing between the slabs.. what fun. Anyway, it was too early to get listening to music plus the neighbours properties were too close perhaps AC/DC wasn’t on the cards but I did listen to more Latin music at very very low volume 🕺. First task was the weeding in all patio areas, behind the shed, under the bushes and the raised beds with the Monkey Puzzle Trees…I do apologise to the neighbours who may have heard some Anglo Saxon words this morning but you just had to say something after being stabbed weeding or brushing past with a lawn mower .. OUCH! Weeding completed then on to edge strimming around all areas before 2 x cut heights were needed to get the grass looking neat and tidy. A good sweep up was required before packing up.. what a difference the garden is now looking but you could almost see the grass grow behind me when mowing😳. Headed to a site visit with a new client this afternoon before heading to B&Q for supplies. Dawn and I are going to relax over the weekend as it’s been full on work wise for us.. beer and crisps this evening👍. Have a lovely weekend everybody😎

04/06/2026

Hi Guys, back at my clients fortnightly garden maintenance with everything soaked…. Can’t think why😂.Arrived early as there was a window of opportunity in completing the garden maintenance before it pi**ed down, very ominous black clouds all looking very moody! Unloaded and cracked on with the occasional splatter of rain causing me to stop and see if I was about to be drenched by a killer cloud creeping up behind me. The dreaded gravel creep awaited me.. RAC Rally or dukes of Hazzard in doing doughnuts on the gravel😂. Luckily I will be spreading a product later this year that will bind the gravel together and with any luck, stop the Dukes of Hazzard gravel creep. Anyway, front garden all now looking neat and tidy once again.. weeds are a bu**er at the mo… rain and sunshine great combination for turbo growth🙁. Headed to the back garden where I can listen to my music while weeding the two big borders.. music choice “Latin” yeah baby my snake hips were moving to the beat of the music while weeding.. was half expecting to see bods turning up thinking this was a party 🤘. There is definitely space for dancing… and my Latin snake hips finished the weeding.. alas nobody turned up to dance….well it was early😂. Lawn next with the stimming of the edges then mowing with two cut heights required..done just as big rain drops descended from the sky but only the surrounding area. Headed back home to unload before heading out again for a hedge trim but this time , the big rain clouds followed me to my second job of the day… buckets of rain came down with the occasional flash of lighting.. this was cancelled for another day.. it was too wet to get my snake hips moving again😂. Managed to see three new clients this afternoon so the afternoon was not a total let down. Some photos of the day.

03/06/2026

Hi Guys, wow what a thunder storm yesterday evening.. biblical is a understatement, was expecting the Ark to float by but the flooding was short lived. However, a few businesses in Laurencekirk did get a soaking internally due to the volume of water. Today back at Poppies Pre-School for the fortnightly garden maintenance…arrived with the remnants of the storm water evidence on all the paths and grass, water must have come from the road over lapping the pavement down into the front garden area bring all the debris, gravel and leaves. First job was a good sweep up to make things presentable 👍…the big borders had a good hoe and rake to remove the weeds then onto the grass edge strimming. The grass had really grown quickly with both lawns requiring to cut heights to make things neat and tidy.. sorted. A tree had a very light trim to take off some long twigs, the tree all nicely shaped once again, headed to the big ultra spiky hedge that I love doing…. not😳. Looking a touch hairy so all the fresh new growth was taken off now looking neater, a good sweep up was required.. sorted. During the morning the Bird Table/Nesting box had lots of bees flying in and out of the box getting a touch miffed as I was making so much noise, the bird table was carefully up lifted away from the front door and put in a safe area by the big hedge, the bees following me .. phew never got stung👍. This afternoon visited new clients for site surveys… all painting on sash windows, front doors and a big fence. Dawn and I will be sampling the New Indian takeaway this evening… can’t wait for the extra hot Vindaloo .. “loo” at the end of the word is probably needed😂😂😂😂. Some photos of the day.

02/06/2026

Hi Guys, what a day weather wise trying to do garden maintenance in this weather.. due to my diary fully booked out these weather conditions make it extremely difficult to cancel a booking as I would then have catch up, but I don’t have room for that luxury. This morning heading to my client the heavens opened up, O bu**er but within a few miles dry as a bone👍, back at my clients for the fortnightly garden maintenance and was greeted by once again a meadow. This weather is causing everything to grow very quickly.. too quickly making especially damp grass to mow an extreme faff🙁. Arrived early with the sun trying to come out as it suddenly became very humid.. all my work gear started to stick to me as I worked my way through the meadow with the lawn mower… stop start was the progress with unblocking the grass shoot into the collection box. Bag after bag of heavy wet grass was dumped into the green bags, by half way, perspiration was dripping off me trying not to wipe my forehead with very green wet gloves. Bu**er no good just have to wipe… by the time I had finished mowing both front and back lawns, I saw myself in the car wing mirror looking like Rambo with the camouflage streaks on my face😂.. better get those removed. Anyway, all done with the final bit of grass strimmer edging… sorted. After two cut heights required on the grass, this took me after 1pm, needed to head home to change out of my damp work gear and headed out once again to see new clients over in Forfar. Only just got back before the Thunder Storm… Fork lightening a plenty.. spectacular if only it was at nighttime this storm🙄. On a last note, Laurencekirk has a New Indian Restaurant called the “Cinnamon” ..Dawn and I spoke to the manager on Sunday afternoon as we walked past to pick up a menu. Can’t wait for a take away and Cobra beer👍

01/06/2026

Hi Guys, another weekend came and went extremely quickly but Dawn and I had a great time at “Mofest” listening to live bands in various pubs… four to be exact, but can’t recall how many beers were drunk.. put it like this, we were relaxed😎 Great event catching up with bods we know in the various pubs, Rock, Country, Indi and Soul were our choices of music we wanted to listen to. Sunday, we christened our new BBQ as the old one had heavy use over the 16 years … the bottom fell out! So the Sunday roast was Polish Sausages, chicken thighs with salad, coleslaw and fresh yummy brown bread watching the sun go down behind our cabin.. beautiful sky last night. Today, it rained all morning at my clients doing garden maintenance a touch soggy is a good word but all the mowing, strimming and hedge trimming on the 7 big bushes and the bad boy very hairy side hedges were done. Able to use my new Battery very long reach hedge trimmer to good effect on the top of the two big hedges… well pleased with the reach of the trimmer plus the battery stayed good lasting for the whole morning👍. Five big green bags filled and taken to the dump.. and me a touch soggy. Headed home just after 1pm to get out of my damp work gear and changed into fresh gear before heading to my second client of the day putting up these heavy shelves in the narrow gap between the cupboard and wall. Now here’s a thing, these shelves required four screw hanging points on the wall, done these many times so I find attaching paper to the back of the shelf so you can puncher exact holes, transferring the paper to the wall and make the location holes on the wall… fool proof and always works. First shelf up sorted then the other, all totally level👍. Some photos of the day😎

29/05/2026

Hi Guys, Friday yay😎.. has been a full on working week with lots of happy satisfied clients and lots of various projects making a satisfying week for me. Today at my new client with the various project phases to be done during the course of the year namely garden maintenance and everything in between, today everything in between👍. Arrived early to get cracking on building two bench/ table furnitures that had been already partly assembled by either a company call “Bodge- it and Leg -it” or someone who definitely needed to go to “Spec Savers” .. I had already seen the mess the bods had done some time ago when setting up a site visit on the furniture and huge garden, so was under no illusion of what lay ahead of me😳. Arrived early and set up my works area on the big raised patio… a real sun trap, factor 30 splashed on and the music ready… Pink Floyd set the mood👍. The half built or can I say not built properly furniture was looking very sorry for it’s self in the garage, lifted up a section and it fell apart, bugggggger😡, these had to be all screwed/ bolted together again in the garage before I could lift them.. cor these are heavy and take them to the patio, what a faff. All laid out to be put together, first thing you notice is wood splinters on the side legs where bolts had be forced in a hole.. what a “B” mess they had done..it appears there had been a manufacture fault where pre bolt holes hadn’t been drilled in by the manufacture. However, there is no excuse in making a hash job and damaging the furniture plus their holes they had put in were totally in the wrong position 🙄. Rant over, the process in finishing off the furniture was down to me.. have done many of these, so prep in getting it level so the sections can joined together is very important, table supported, each section was aligned marks were made and new drill holes done👍. The first table done and all sections are solid, plus it turns into a bench or table…sorted. The second bench/table was the problem child, this I had to re- constructed so all the parts fitted properly especially the moving part section transforming it into a table…what a faff, yep choice Anglo Saxon words were mentioned carried off into the wind.. it’s getting very windy here😳. Lots of tweaking had to be done before new hole were drilled.. all done as the furniture transforms from bench to table… SORTED😁. These were moved to their new homes waiting to be sat on👍. Next, Compost bins to be built.. instructions were totally useless as designed by a four year old… what a faff but eventually two bins built and transferred to the shady part of the garden… done. All done but will be back on Monday to finish off the list, putting up shelves👍. Have a great weekend everybody as Dawn and I will be heading to Montrose for the music festival..crowd surfing here I come with beers 😄😎🤘. Some photos of the day.

28/05/2026

Hi Guys, well never done so many windows, doors and the bad boy conservatory windows… all had the old sealant removed so new sealant could be applied..it’s a long process but very much worth it. Music choice to keep me company, Motörhead, Foo Fighters, Led Zep, Echo and the Bunnymen🤘 The front of the house was done first, lots of cutting, scraping and gouging out of the old sealant as I worked my way along .. disposable gloves are a must doing this other wise your fingers become as sticky as fly paper… 😳. Eventually front door, garage door and windows done… sorted, headed to the back of the house with the bad boy conservatory waving a finger at me… that will take time to do with lots of gaps and peeling of old sealant but first, three windows needed to be done first, same process as the front windows and the process started. My bucket of old sealant was filling up with empty tubes of sealant and very sticky disposal gloves but at least no Fly paper fingers😄. The Bad boy conservatory was next… slowing working my way around but eventually all done… phew that was a faff! The last bit one further window and two doors to do… done and I don’t want to see anymore windows, doors and conservatory windows for a very long time to seal😎. Pleased how it’s gone today and all water tight👍. Some photos of the day.

27/05/2026

Hi Guys, following tonnes of jobs yesterday for my client all completed, today was one project, “The Back Door”. This is phase three of my project with my client in completing the outside painting of doors and windows, the weather was on my side enabling all the wood to dry out making today a straightforward process👍. Arrived early to get cracking as the back of the property is a real sun trap… last thing I wanted was to melt again… not pleasant! The Door and frame was extremely rough with rot in certain sections especially the widow frames.. this had deteriorated from last year when it was last inspected it…yep all had to be taken out and replaced. Door steps covered and set to work with The Cure, James, Ocean colour scene, Oasis, Blur .. playing all day🤘. The frames were removed using my flat faced crowbar, glass then secured in place with masking tape last thing I wanted was it falling out😳, then the hard graft of wire brushing and sanding down the whole area. Once done, a huge amount of filling in the holes, sealing the frame at the wall and removing lots of small nails everywhere then filling in the small holes. The filler needed to dry so it was a good opportunity to head out to get replacement window beading.. that was fun.. not, the window is sunk into the door meaning a lip, trying to find a L shaped beading to fit was difficult but eventually success at the second place I went to, once back all the areas were sanded down before installing the new beading. Using the existing old beading made the task easy.. all cut to size and put back in the frame, tape was used to keep them in place then Air gun used to good effect.. solid to the door👍. Some filling was required and sealing the beading to the door… sorted, well pleased with the new frame😄. Lunchtime arrived and went quickly, the frame filler now dry, so a good sanding down was needed. Prep done and looking good now the painting could start, two coats of grey then the pink for the door to match the front door I painted this year… three coats applied as it dried quickly… done👍. Finally, the wall frame was painted done… wow what a difference it has made, really pleased with the window frame I made now looking the business. A good clean up of my work area was required… done😎. Some photos of the day.

26/05/2026

Hi Guys, what a day makes.. yesterday, melting working outside and today, very pleasant 👍. My client lives out in the sticks with stunning scenery leading to where I was working today.. light and shadows on a prepared field.. lovely👍. Anyway, tonnes to do with strimming being the first on the cards before it gets to hot.. managed to do 95% of the strimming covering all around the property before my strimmer broke😱, it was making a interesting noise before the strimming head stopped turning… bu**er🙁. Hummmm the sound of bits of metal when turning the head by hand. O well, packed up and headed indoors for the big list of jobs to deal with, hook put up, bog roll holder installed.. looks nice then onto installing blinds. Now here’s a thing, these were the wrong size so had to be cut to fit.. you just have to measure and remeasure as mistakes can’t be rectified. The first thing to do was paint both bedroom window tops.. done, then the tricky bit cutting the blinds to fit😱.. all done successfully and working, yay👍. IKEA box’s to install on the walls of both children’s bedrooms.. all straightforward but measuring once again was critical to get it right. All done and looking good, huge big fridge was shifted from one room to another with the help from my client.. boy was it heavy but done👍. The last part of the list was to install new house name plate fix the red flag.. now working and sanding down post box then varnishing it.. done👍. Happy all done but my poor strimmer🙁.. more expense but I have had it for 5 years trouble free and it has done extensive work so it’s one of those things. Some photos of the day.

25/05/2026

Hi Guys, what scorcher of a day it’s been with me melting doing garden maintenance and digging holes for the wing frame I erected this year,the frame needed bedding into the ground as the final part of the project. When I left to get to my client it was reading 19c at 7.30 am this morning but once there just on 20c at 8am😳…. South of France temperatures🇾🇪. I wanted to get the prep and the post create done before it got to hot….. how wrong I was on that point… melting with no shade around… digging holes was hard work to a depth of 450 for the back posts and 250 for the front ones, the ground is slopping so had a 200 difference front back and front to get level… fun fun fun. Music choice, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zep, kept me going through the morning, 6 holes were dug and me already drunk 2l of water …..it just evaporated! Swing frame all level as it should be👍.. then the process of the post create followed, done thank goodness as by the time I had finished screwing back the supports, climbing steps etc I was beat. Cleaned up and headed for some shade👍. Lunch over, now came the bad boy front garden hedge looking very hairy… boy was the sun strong, factor 30 had already been applied before I left for work but a second lot was applied for good measure, hedges done and once again I was melting, three green bags filled with a dump run required… by the time I got to Stonehaven my car was reading 31c😳. and there it remained heading back from the dump… phew is all I can say! Last thing to do at my clients was installing a folding gate in a camper to stop her dogs escaping…. done👍. A luke warm shower awaited back home to cool off… still radiating but better than I was👍. Some photos of the day😎

Simon the Handyman Laurencekirk

05/06/2026

04/06/2026

03/06/2026

02/06/2026

01/06/2026

29/05/2026

28/05/2026

27/05/2026

26/05/2026

25/05/2026

Address

Opening Hours

Telephone

Website

Alerts

Shortcuts

Share

Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm