Handyman FAQs, Rome, GA

Nobody can price a job honestly without knowing what it is, and an hourly rate quoted before anyone has seen it is a guess. What is worth knowing is the shape of the pricing: several small jobs in one visit cost less per job than the same jobs spread across separate trips, because the trip is a fixed cost either way. Send your list and you get a real number rather than a range.

Yes. For most jobs a photo and a description are enough to get you a price without anyone needing to visit, which is quicker for both of us than booking a visit just to look.

The minimum is $180. It covers the trip and the first stretch of work, which is the reason a list beats a single item: the same trip carries eight jobs about as easily as one. If you are right out at the edge of the area, ask about travel when you call.

Ask when you call. Both models are normal in this trade: hourly suits an open-ended punch list, flat-rate suits a defined job like a TV mount or a door. What matters more than the model is that you know which one you are agreeing to before work starts.

Either of us. If you have already bought the fixture, the door or the paint, it will be fitted. If not, tell us what you want and materials go into the quote. Anything that has to be ordered gets flagged before the day rather than discovered on it.

Not for general repair work of the kind a handyman does, which is why this business does not hold one and does not claim to. Some trades are licensed separately whatever the job is worth, plumbing and HVAC among them, and work in those goes to that trade rather than onto a repair list. Swapping a faucet or toilet on the supply and waste already there is a fixture change. Moving pipework is not.

Yes. We carry general liability insurance, and we will send the certificate over if you ask. Worth asking that of anyone you hire, and worth asking for the certificate rather than a verbal yes.

Roofing, garage doors and their openers, gas and HVAC, and load-bearing structural and foundation work. Some of that is licensing, some is genuine specialization, and some, a garage door spring being the obvious one, is simply not worth the risk to anyone involved. Anything else, we will say so on the call and point you at the right trade.

Most small repair work does not require one. Some work does, and a new deck is the common example: height above grade, how the ledger attaches to the house and the load it carries are all things a building department has a view on. Ask about your specific job when you call. Anyone who tells you permits are never needed for anything is not a person to hire.

Monday to Friday, 7am to 5pm. Closed Saturday and Sunday. Availability inside those hours changes week to week, so say if your job has a deadline attached, like a rental turnover or a closing date, because that changes how it gets scheduled.

Call and ask. For genuine emergencies, an active water leak, anything smoking or sparking, structural failure, call the appropriate emergency trade or your utility rather than waiting on a handyman callback.

For the walk-through at the start and the hand-over at the end, yes. That is when you say what you want and check you got it. For the work in between, not usually, provided access is arranged and you are reachable by phone if something unexpected turns up.

Clear access to the work area and move anything valuable or breakable out of the room. For exterior work, unlock gates and move vehicles clear of ladder positions. If pets will be home, say so when booking. That is genuinely all.

About 35 miles out from Rome. In Georgia that is Floyd, Bartow, Polk, Gordon, Chattooga, Paulding, Cobb, Walker, Haralson and Cherokee counties, running from Rome and Lindale out to Cartersville, Summerville and Acworth. The same radius crosses into northeast Alabama across Cherokee and DeKalb counties, out to Centre, Cedar Bluff and Fort Payne. The smaller places in between are covered the same way. If you are right out at the edge of it, ask about travel when you call.

That is the core of this business. A list of small jobs: a door, a patch, a faucet, a rail, a bit of caulk, is a better use of a visit than any one of them alone, and costs less per item than calling somebody out three separate times.

You get told before any extra work happens, with what was found, what it means and what it will cost. This comes up most often with water damage, where rot reaches further than the stain suggests. Nothing gets added to a bill you have not agreed to first.

Yes. Workmanship is guaranteed for a year. If a repair does not hold, we come back and put it right.

Yes, both. Rental turnovers and property punch lists are common, and commercial maintenance and repairs are part of the business. Describe the property and the job when you call, because access and hours vary more on a commercial site than a home.