I fix things
Home maintenance and repair, and grab bar installation for homeowners, landlords, and property managers in La Grande and across Union County, Oregon.
The doors that stick, the railing that wobbles, the list that has been on the fridge since spring. One person shows up, does the work, and cleans up after.
Doors, windows, drywall repair, trim, interior and exterior painting, replacing rotted or damaged cabinet bottoms, caulking, deck repair, gutters, shelving, assembly.
Small fixes and the bigger projects that keep a home running right.
The whole point is to stop the fall before it happens. That's easier, and kinder, than healing from one.
GBIAA-certified installation of grab bars for home and bathroom safety.
Turnovers, punch lists, and repairs across your units, with notes and photos on every job so you know what was done.
For property managersNo call center, no crew you have never met. You talk to the person who does the work, from the first phone call to the last sweep of the floor.
Tell me what is going on. Most jobs get scheduled from that first conversation.
Detailed pictures are often enough. If not, I come take a look. Either way, I tell you what it will take before any work starts. No surprises on the invoice.
Done right, cleaned up, and written up so you know exactly what was fixed and where things stand.
A grab bar is only as good as its mounting. I locate and mount directly into the studs, or use Moen Home Care SecureMount anchors, or add solid blocking if need be. I set the bars at the height that fits the person using them, and test them before I leave.
I'm Jonny, based in Summerville and serving Union County. I spent twenty years maintaining and restoring an 1828 building in the French Quarter of New Orleans. It was a labor of love, and it taught me the trade.
I fix things
Don't see your job listed? Give me a call.
On homes built before 1978, painting and other work that disturbs old paint is done lead-safe under my Oregon Lead-Based Paint Renovation (LBPR) and EPA Lead-Safe Renovator certifications.
Oregon licenses electrical and plumbing work separately from general contracting. If your project includes that work, call me and we'll sort it out together.
Grab bars for home and bathroom safety, solidly installed and placed for the person who'll use them. Serving La Grande and all of Union County, Oregon.
The whole point is to stop the fall before it happens. That's easier, and kinder, than healing from one.
Placed where the hand actually reaches: stepping into the shower, standing up from the toilet, lowering into the tub.
For you, or for the parent you check on. One less thing to worry about every morning and night.
Falls are the leading cause of injury, and of injury deaths, for people 65 and older, and the numbers are climbing. About eight in ten bathroom injuries are falls. The older we get, the more of those happen getting on and off the toilet or in and out of the tub.
The bathroom is a hard floor, wet surfaces, and nothing to hold onto but a towel bar. A towel bar is not a grab bar. It's screwed into drywall with hardware meant to hold a towel.
Sources: CDC, Older Adult Falls Data · CDC MMWR, Nonfatal Bathroom Injuries
Grab bars are like handrails on stairs. Nobody needs them until they do, and by then it's late to be shopping. The people who call me are usually:
Nobody has to be old, or unsteady, to want one. I've caught myself on a towel bar too.
There's a standard starting height, the same one public bathrooms are built to, and where occupational therapists start too. Then I adjust for the person: their height, which hand is stronger, whether they sit to shower. A bar placed for a 6-foot man doesn't help a 5-foot-2 woman.
A grab bar is only as good as what it's screwed into. That's the whole trade.
The Grab Bar Installers Association of America is the national certification for this work. Certified installers are trained and tested on wall assessment, anchoring, placement, and documentation, and agree to a code of practice. The standards for the bars themselves, how much they hold and where they go, have been around for decades. What didn't exist was any way to check the person installing them. GBIAA is the first certification built for that, and I hold it.
Certified Grab Bar Installer
Tell me who the bar is for and where the trouble is. Five minutes on the phone usually tells me most of what I need.
I come out, look at the walls, and watch how the person moves in the space. That's where the placement comes from, not a chart.
Bars in, tested, wiped down, mess gone. Your invoice shows what went in and where.
Most single-bathroom jobs are done in one visit.
Grab bars are one of the cheapest things you can do for an older tenant, and one of the easiest requests to say yes to. I work with property managers on tenant requests, turnovers, and getting a unit ready for an aging renter. Same bars, same anchoring, invoiced to the account.
Whatever the route, I give you an itemized invoice that shows what was installed and where, which is what these programs ask for.
Turnovers, punch lists, and the repairs tenants call about. You deal with one person, and every job comes back with notes and photos, so you know what was done without driving out to see it.
On homes built before 1978, painting and other work that disturbs old paint is done lead-safe under my Oregon Lead-Based Paint Renovation (LBPR) and EPA Lead-Safe Renovator certifications.
Yes. Send me the work order and the tenant's contact information, and I'll set a time with them.
Notes and photos of the work, plus an invoice you can forward to the owner.
No. If there's a lockbox or a key to pick up, tell me how you handle access, and I'll follow your process.
It depends on the week. I'll tell you honestly when I can get there, and then I'll be there when I said I would.
Licensed, Bonded & Insured, Oregon CCB #261760. When we first meet, I bring an introduction folder for your files, including a signed W-9.
I'm Jonny, owner of mr O's Handyman Service, based in Summerville and serving Union County.
I learned this trade the long way. For twenty years I lived in a building built in 1828 in New Orleans, right in the heart of the French Quarter. I kept it up — rebuilding rotted window and door sills, tracking down and repairing Formosan termite damage, restoring windows and doors, stopping water intrusion, skim coating lath and plaster, repointing brick walls and patching stucco three floors up on a stepladder. It was a labor of love, and I learned an enormous amount.
Then, after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, I came back from evacuation with a dump truck and Bobcat. I worked my dump truck and Bobcat service for five years after the storm, in that long line of dump trucks, working the recovery. Most of my working life before that was spent in service jobs, where showing up on time and being straight with people is the whole job.
Oregon Construction Contractors Board license #261760. Look it up any time at the CCB's public license search.
Certified through the Grab Bar Installers Association of America, because a grab bar is only as good as how it's installed.
Based in Summerville, working all of Union County.
Worked with me? I'd love to hear how it went.
A phone call is fastest. If you would rather write it down, the form goes straight into my scheduling system and I will get back to you to set a time.