Decks and porches
Rotten boards cut out and replaced, loose rails fixed, steps rebuilt. New timber set into the old so the deck lasts, not a whole new deck you didn't ask for.
Swanton, Ohio
The jobs around the house,
The jobs around the house,
done by someone who turns up.
Family-run handyman work in Swanton and the villages around it: windows, decks, gutters, rot repair, siding, and the list that never gets shorter. And when a house needs a roofer, Jim is still one. Fully insured. The person who quotes the job is the one who does it.
Call (419) 402-4218
Straight to Jim. No call centre, no lead service.
A+
BBB rating, accredited since 2023
4.95
average across 20 BBB reviews
0
complaints ever filed
3rd
generation in the trade
Handyman work
The list of small jobs, finally done
Every house has one. Sun and Shield is a two-person family business, so the jobs that are too small for a contractor and too much for a weekend get done by someone who shows up when he said he would.
Windows
The old unit and the rotten sill out, the new window in, and the trim made good inside and out. Brick or siding. Photographs of one job are just below.
Gutters, soffit, fascia and rot
Gutters cleared, re-hung or replaced, and the boards behind them repaired before the water finds the wall. When it already has, the rotten corner is cut out and rebuilt from sound wood.
Siding patches
The cracked piece, the section the storm took, the corner the mower caught. Matched and fixed, without re-siding the house.
Outdoor builds
Raised garden beds, small structures, the timber jobs around a yard. Built from scratch on site.
The rest of the list
The small repairs that have been waiting for someone reliable. If it's a job Jim takes on, he'll say so on the phone; if it isn't, he'll say that too.
Before and after
Two jobs, as found and as left
The same house, the same corner, a few days apart. This is what the handyman side of Sun and Shield looks like on an ordinary week.
Old window and rotten sill out, new unit in, trim made good against the brick.
Rotted corner cut out and rebuilt from sound wood, then trimmed and painted.
Roofing
And when the house needs a roofer
Sun and Shield started as a roofing company and still is one. Repairs and leaks first, and the full jobs when a roof is past repairing.
Clearing an ice dam off the eave. One of Jim's winter callouts.
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Leaks you can't find
Water travels before it drips. Finding where it actually got in is most of the work, and it's the part worth paying someone to do properly.
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Ice dams and frozen gutters
Melt refreezes at the cold eave, backs up under the shingles, and comes through the ceiling. It is cleared from a ladder, carefully, without chipping at your roof.
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Storm and wind damage
Lifted shingles and torn flashing after a hard blow. Looked at quickly, so the next rain doesn't finish the job.
Repairs and leaks
Missing shingles, failed flashing, valleys, boots and vents. The repair that buys you five more years when the roof doesn't need replacing yet.
Flat and low-slope roofs
Rolled and membrane roofs on porches, extensions and garages. A different material and a different method to a pitched roof, and not every roofer takes them on.
Metal roofing
Standing-seam and panel roofs for houses, garages, barns and outbuildings. Common on properties out here, and a different job to shingle.
New roofs
Full tear-off and replacement on shingle and metal. Old roof off, deck checked, new roof on, and the site left clean at the end of it.
If it's the roof
Does it need repairing, or replacing?
Worth knowing roughly where you stand. If a contractor tells you the answer is always "replace", that says more about their business than about your roof.
A problem in one place
- A leak in one spot, after a storm
- A handful of shingles lifted or gone
- Flashing failing at a chimney or valley
- The rest of the roof still lying flat and even
- Under about fifteen years old
A problem everywhere at once
- Granules filling the gutters
- Shingles curling or cupping across whole slopes
- More than one leak, in different places
- Decking that feels soft underfoot
- Past twenty years, or a second layer already on
Not sure which one you're looking at? That is exactly the phone call to make. Jim will tell you if it's a repair, including when the honest answer is that it can wait another season.
Our work
Jobs around Swanton
Photographs from Sun and Shield's own jobs, most of them the small ones, and the roofs. Not stock, and not somebody else's portfolio.
What happens after you call
Four steps, no surprises
You should know exactly what you are agreeing to before anyone picks up a tool.
Look at it
Jim comes out and looks at the job, and if it's the roof he gets on it. Not a guess from the driveway, and not a photo from a drone somebody else flew.
Tell you straight
What is actually wrong, what it needs, and whether it needs doing now or can wait. If it is a repair, he will say so.
Do the work
The same two people who quoted it. No subcontractors, no crew you have never met turning up in an unmarked truck.
Clean up after
Nails picked up, old material hauled away, and the yard left the way it was before the job started.
Where we work
Swanton, and the towns around it
Based in Swanton, working across Fulton County and out into the western edge of Lucas County.
SwantonDeltaWauseonMetamora
BerkeyWhitehouseWatervilleHolland
MonclovaSylvaniaMaumeeToledo
Not sure whether you are in range? Call and ask. If it is too far, Jim will tell you that rather than waste your afternoon.
Questions
The things people ask first
What kind of jobs do you take on?
The handyman work around a house first: decks and porches, gutters, soffit and fascia, siding patches, outdoor builds, and the list of small repairs. And roofing, from a leak to a full replacement, when a house needs it.
Who actually does the work?
Jim, with Sue running the business alongside him. Sun and Shield is a two-person family company, so the person who quotes the job is the person doing it. There are no subcontracted crews.
Do you still do roofing?
Yes. Sun and Shield started as a roofing company. Repairs and leaks are most of it now, and full replacements when a roof is past repairing.
Do you come out in winter?
Yes. Most of the calls that matter come in the cold months: ice dams, wind damage, and leaks that start when the thaw sets in. Waiting until spring usually costs more than the repair would have.
Are you insured?
Fully insured. Sun and Shield has been trading since 2022 and has been accredited by the Better Business Bureau since 2023, holding an A+ rating with no complaint ever filed.
Will you tell me if I don't need a new roof?
Yes, and that is the point of getting someone out to look. Plenty of roofs that feel like a replacement are a repair and a few more seasons.
Get it looked at
Call Jim. He'll tell you straight.
A look at the job and an honest answer about what it needs, including when the answer is that it doesn't need much. Swanton and the surrounding area.