Fixture & Faucet Swaps.
Princeton & Mercer County, NJ.
Princeton Handyman covers fixture & faucet swaps for Princeton, West Windsor, Plainsboro, Lawrence Township, Montgomery, and the towns around them. A kitchen faucet that drips, a toilet that runs at 2 a.m., a brass dining-room light from the last owner. We put a like-for-like replacement in the same place on the same lines. New Jersey's construction code classifies that as ordinary maintenance: no permit, no inspection, almost always one visit.
What's Covered
- Kitchen and bathroom faucets, cartridges, and sprayers
- Toilets on the existing flange, plus fill valves, flappers, and wax seals
- Vanities and sinks where the plumbing stays where it is
- Garbage disposals and dishwashers on existing hookups
- Shower heads, shower trim, and P-traps
- Light fixtures, pendants, and flush mounts, like-for-like
- Ceiling fans on an existing fan-rated box
- Switches, dimmers, receptacles, and GFCIs, like-for-like
- Bath exhaust fans that already vent outside
What We Leave to Others
- New or relocated water lines, or a fixture where there was none
- Water heaters, gas lines, and gas appliances
- New circuits, extra outlets, panel work, or wiring inside walls
- A ceiling fan where there is only a light box (it needs a fan-rated box first)
Pick the Block
General repairs are sold by the block of time; specialty installs get a per-job quote. Both are fixed before we arrive, with materials at cost on the invoice.
Visit
$345
Up to 2 hours of general repairs
- Swap a kitchen faucet and a bathroom faucet
- Replace one toilet
- Change two light fixtures and a dimmer
Half Day
$595
Up to 4 hours on site
- Vanity, faucet, and toilet in one bathroom
- Disposal and dishwasher swapped
- Four fixtures and a ceiling fan
Full Day
$1,095
A full working day
- Move-in day: every tired faucet, fixture, fan, and switch plate in the house
In Their Words.
I highly recommend reaching out to Osama if you need a reliable and professional handyman. Even though he was fully booked, he took the time to discuss my project, offered a very fair and transparent estimate, and gave me great advice.
Before You Book
Do I need a permit to replace a faucet, toilet, or light in New Jersey?
No. N.J.A.C. 5:23-2.7 lists replacing faucets, valves, traps, and fixtures with a similar fixture, and replacing receptacles, switches, and lighting fixtures with a like item, as ordinary maintenance. No permit, no inspection, no notice to the township. The moment a job changes the piping or the wiring it leaves that category, and that is also where we stop.
What does like-for-like actually mean?
Same location, same connections. Faucet for faucet, toilet for toilet on the same flange, a light on the existing box, a switch for a switch. Moving a sink, adding a second vanity, running a line for a fridge, or hanging a fan where only a light was is new work: permit, licensed trade, not us.
Do I buy the fixture or do you?
Either works. If you have already picked one out, we install it. If not, tell us the look and the budget and we bring options at cost, itemized on the invoice. The truck stocks a couple of dependable toilets and faucets for the common cases.
It is leaking right now. How soon can you get here?
Close the shutoff under the sink or behind the toilet and text us a photo. Most swaps get booked inside the week. If water is actively running somewhere it should not, call a plumber first and us for the repairs afterward.
Whenever You're Ready.
A photo and one line is enough. You get a reply the same business day with the block that fits.