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The list of small things nobody wants to own

A drawer that will not close. A cabinet door that scrapes. An outlet with a crack around it. A baseboard that has come away from the wall. None of it is urgent, all of it is annoying, and it slowly convinces you the house is falling apart. HEART AND DAGGER SOUTHERN LTD clears the whole list in one visit with one invoice.

Technician using a drill to fix a loose baseboard trim on a matte white wall

The problem

Small repairs get expensive because they get deferred

A sticking cabinet hinge is a fifteen-minute job. Left alone for two years it strips the screw holes, softens the timber around the fixings and now you need new hinges, new screws, filler and a repaint of the whole door face. The original fault was trivial. The delay was not.

The same pattern shows up with outlets, drawer runners, door frames and ceiling fans. Each one is cheap on its own, expensive as a pattern, and difficult to explain to anyone else living in the house. “It has been like that for a while” tends to become “it is just the house”.

HEART AND DAGGER SOUTHERN LTD takes the whole list at once. You send it as a list, a photo album or a voice note at midnight. We sort it, price it, source the parts and come back with a single written scope. One visit, one invoice, one crew, and a house that stops generating small grievances.

There is no minimum list size, by the way. A single stubborn door counts.

What we fix

Common requests

  • Cabinet hinges, soft-close fittings and drawer runners
  • Outlets, switches, dimmers and USB inserts
  • Baseboards, crown moulding, door frames and architraves
  • Drywall patches, nail holes and small wall damage
  • Doors that stick, latch badly or swing open on their own
  • Ceiling fans, light fittings and hardware swaps
  • Caulking around baths, sinks and exterior gaps
  • Stair treads, loose balusters and squeaky boards
Pricing
First hour on site$129
Each additional hour$89
Parts and materialsQuoted before purchase
Paint touch-up per room, outside the repaired areas$60
Drywall patch and skim coat$95

Door hardware

A house that closes properly

Doors are the part of a home we touch most often and think about least. A door that latches badly gets propped open. A door that swings open by itself gets a hook hung on it. A door with a lever that has come loose gets used carefully by everybody except the person who moves the furniture.

HEART AND DAGGER SOUTHERN LTD adjusts hinges, replaces hardware with the correct backset and screw length for the thickness of your door, and planes the edge where it catches. We fit the hardware you choose and we tell you when the door itself needs a different treatment, because a new lever on a warped door still will not close properly.

Most of this work takes under an hour per door. The point is that it gets done properly, once, rather than becoming a habit of avoidance.

Door hinge and handle being adjusted on a painted interior door

Questions

Before the first visit

Any way you like. Send a message, a photo of the list on paper, a photo album or a voice note. HEART AND DAGGER SOUTHERN LTD will pull it into a tidy written scope and send it back for approval before anything is booked.

Yes. HEART AND DAGGER SOUTHERN LTD sources standard parts and fittings in advance so the visit is not wasted. Specialist or discontinued items are discussed with you first, including the cost and the realistic wait.

We do touch-ups on the areas we have repaired, and that is included in the quoted scope. Full-room repainting is a different job, and we will say so rather than quietly adding it to the invoice.

Most lists of five to twelve items are finished in a single morning. Larger lists are split over two visits so the crew is not rushing and the quality does not drop towards the end of the day.

One list, one visit

Give the list to HEART AND DAGGER SOUTHERN LTD

Send it however it comes easiest. We will turn it into a written scope and a price, and clear it in one visit.