Handyman · one van, one list

Don't book a job. Book a list.

Getting someone out costs more than most of these jobs do. So save them up — the shelf, the dripping tap, the door that won't shut, the smoke alarm nobody can reach — and we work through as many as fit the time you booked.

Send your list What fits in a half day?

Half day

$220 · 4 hours

As many jobs as fit the four hours
One tradesman, tools and van
Materials at cost plus 10%, receipted
Travel included within 12 miles

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What fits in the time

Two hours — Two or three small ones: flat-pack, a curtain pole, a tap washer, the smoke alarms
Half a day — Five or six: shelves up, a bathroom resiliconed, a sticking door eased, blinds, a fence panel
A full day — A room's worth: skirting, filling and painting a wall, a wardrobe built, a shed base levelled
What doesn't fit — Anything needing a part we have to go and find. That is an hour of your booking spent in a queue

Photograph anything with a model number on it — a tap, a boiler control, a broken handle — and send it with the list. Half the time lost on a handyman visit is a trip to the shop for the right size of something.

What we get asked for most

Doors

Sticking, dropped, won't latch. Usually hinges or a strike plate rather than a new door.

Mounting

TVs, mirrors, shelves and heavy pictures — into the studs or the right fixing, not a hope and a rawlplug.

Taps and sealant

Washers, mixer cartridges and resiliconing a bath. The small water jobs, not a boiler.

Flat-pack

Built, levelled and strapped to the wall. Bring the instructions; we've usually met the wardrobe before.

Small carpentry

Skirting, architrave, a shelf cut to fit an alcove that is not square. None of them are.

Outside

Fence panels, gate drops, a wonky post, guttering you can reach from a normal ladder.

Where we stop, and who we call

Gas — Never, at all. A boiler, a hob or a gas fire is a registered gas engineer's work and nobody else's
The consumer unit — We'll swap a light fitting or a socket faceplate. New circuits and board work are notifiable — that is an electrician
Structural — Removing a wall, notching a joist, anything holding the house up. Get it drawn before it gets touched
Asbestos-era materials — Artex, old floor tiles, garage roofing. We stop and it gets tested. This one is not worth the risk to either of us
High outside work — One storey off a proper ladder is our limit. Above that you want a roofer with a tower

We would rather name the right trade than have a go. It is the same reason you would want us to — most of the expensive repairs in this job are somebody else's cheap fix.

The rest of the rate card

Two-hour minimum — $120 — the smallest booking there is, because the van still has to get to you
Half day, four hours — $220 — the one most people want, and the best value in this list
Full day, eight hours — $390 — cheaper per hour, and the only way to finish a room
Evenings and Saturdays — Plus 25%, booked ahead. Sundays we don't work and won't pretend otherwise
Materials — At cost plus 10%, with the receipts attached to the invoice. Buy them yourself if you'd rather
Travel — Included within twelve miles. Beyond that you get the number before we set off, never after

One tradesman, one van. If a job genuinely needs two pairs of hands we tell you at the list stage rather than turn up and discover it.

Send your list

A list of eight is easier to price than a list of one. Send everything you can think of and we'll tell you what fits.

The workshop

2 Trellis Yard, Bridgefoot

Monday: 08:00 – 17:00
Tuesday: 08:00 – 17:00
Wednesday: 08:00 – 17:00
Thursday: 08:00 – 17:00
Friday: 08:00 – 16:00
Saturday: 09:00 – 13:00
Sunday: Closed

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Lists come in all week and get booked into the next free half day. Emergencies are not really this trade — if water is coming in, call a plumber first and us afterwards.

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