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NJ MultiskilledHandyman · Oakhurst NJ
Interior renovation tools and materials

— About

One shop, three trades, one number

NJ Multiskilled Handyman works from 123 Oakhurst Rd in Oakhurst, covering the Township of Ocean and the wider Monmouth County.

(908) 332-0202Request a quote

— Why breadth

Problems in a house ignore trade boundaries

A stained ceiling is a plumbing job and a painting job. A floor that has lifted is a flooring job that started as a leak. A bathroom fan that has stopped is an electrical job until you get up there and find the duct has come off its collar.

Split that across three contractors and you get three schedules, three site visits, three minimum charges, and an argument about whose fault the remaining problem is. That argument is the reason this business is set up the way it is.

Plumbing, electrical and carpentry run out of the same shop. The job that crosses all three books as one visit.

Woodworking tools and workshop bench
Trade tooling — illustrative, not a photograph of this workshop

— How it runs

From the first call to done

  1. 01

    You describe the list

    All of it, not the worst item. Most visits clear several jobs at once, and the ones people leave off are usually the quick ones.

  2. 02

    We price it

    Free estimate. Most jobs can be quoted from a description and a photo, without a survey visit first.

  3. 03

    One visit, one crew

    A job crossing plumbing, electrical and carpentry is booked as one appointment rather than three call-outs on three days.

  4. 04

    We say when it is not ours

    Work that alters the service itself — a gas line, a panel change, a main stack — belongs to a licensed contractor. You hear that at the start.

— The patch

What working this township actually involves

Three things shape most of the work here. Each one has its source printed underneath it, which is the only way a claim on this site is allowed to appear.

Water, and where it goes

Deal Lake started life as an Atlantic estuary and was reshaped from 1890 onward — the ocean inlet was closed off and the water split into several lakes and ponds, making it a model flood-control and stormwater system for its era. Today almost the entire shoreline is developed, with many houses sitting inside the 100-year flood plain. Across the township, flooding and drainage problems follow either several inches of rain in a short window or several days of steady rain, and the area has taken repeated flood damage from rainfall events.

Wikipedia — Deal Lake; Township of Ocean — Flood Information

Permits, before the work

The Township of Ocean requires both zoning and construction permits before any work begins that involves construction, renovation, repairs, additions, alterations or reconstruction of a residence — and the Construction and Building Division issues and inspects every one of them, residential and commercial. Town Hall is at 399 Monmouth Road, in Oakhurst itself.

Township of Ocean — Construction and Building; ecode360 — Township of Ocean Building Permits

Who the neighbours are

Oakhurst is one of the neighbourhoods that make up the Township of Ocean, and it holds the township’s Town Hall on Monmouth Road. The area includes three established senior housing communities — Poplar Village, Heritage Village at Ocean and Heritage Village at Oakhurst — with further age-restricted housing under construction, which shapes the kind of work asked for locally: accessibility fixes, grab rails, step and threshold work, and maintenance on settled properties.

Township of Ocean — Government; Township of Ocean — Housing

A notepad, pencil and tape measure laid out on a plain surface

— Straight answer

What a job here costs

There is no price list on this site. A single published rate would be wrong more often than it was right, and you would find that out once we were standing in the room. Tell us the trade, the town and what has gone wrong, and in most cases you get a number on that call. Estimates are free and nothing is booked off the back of one.

  • The figures on this site — flood plain, permit rules, how Deal Lake was built — each carry their source underneath them.
  • Reviews come from the Google Business Profile, quoted as written, with the reviewer’s name attached.
  • If a job needs a licensed specialist rather than multiskilled repair work, you are told on the first call.

— Reference

The details, in one place

Contact page
Business
NJ Multiskilled Handyman
Address
123 Oakhurst Rd, Oakhurst, NJ 07755
Township
Township of Ocean
County
Monmouth County
Services
21, handled in-house
Trades
Plumbing · Electrical · Carpentry · Interiors · Exterior
Hours
Open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week
Phone
(908) 332-0202

— Get started

Put us on the job

21 services across 5 trades, run out of 123 Oakhurst Rd. Tell us the whole list — the free estimate covers all of it, and most jobs are priced without a survey visit.

(908) 332-0202Request an estimate

What you get either way

  • One crew, not three subcontractors
  • Free written estimate before anything starts
  • We say so when a job needs a licensed specialist instead