Any Other Services
Not on the List? Describe the Job and Ask
The service pages cover the work MR HANDY does most, but plenty of jobs do not fit neatly under any heading. A pressure-washed driveway, a boarded loft, a key safe by the front door, a shed that arrived in forty pieces — they are all still jobs, and no job is too small.
If what you need is not listed anywhere on this site, this is the page for it. Describe the job in your own words, send a photograph if it helps, and you will get one of two honest answers: a price, or the name of the trade that should be doing it instead.
What's Included
What We Can Help With
- Pressure washing driveways, patios and paths
- Gutter clearing and downpipe repairs
- Loft boarding, loft ladders and hatches
- Key safes, grab rails and home-safety fittings
- Sheds, garden furniture and playhouses assembled
- Moving furniture between rooms and floors
- Garage and utility room shelving and storage
- Draught proofing and insulation strips
- Child safety gates and pet flaps
- Tiling repairs and regrouting
- Boxing in pipes and cables
- Small jobs for offices, shops and landlords
Worth Knowing
How an Unusual Job Gets Priced
Most jobs that seem unusual are ordinary once they are broken down. A loft that needs boarding is joists, insulation depth and a hatch; a key safe is a fixing into masonry; a shed is a base, an assembly and a felted roof. The first step is always the same — understand what the job actually consists of — and a clear description with a couple of photographs usually gets there without a visit.
Some things are genuinely another trade's work. Gas, notifiable electrical work, roofing, structural alterations, glazing replacement and anything needing scaffolding are not taken on, however small the job looks. That is said at the outset rather than discovered halfway through, and where possible you will be pointed towards the right kind of tradesperson.
Work at height is limited to what can be reached safely from a ladder. Clearing the gutters on a bungalow or a standard two-storey house is fine; anything that would need a tower or roof access is not.
Lists are welcome. If the unusual job comes with a dozen ordinary ones — a shelf, a sticking door, a dripping tap — send the whole list and the visit is quoted as one, which is almost always cheaper than dealing with each job on its own.
In Practice
Typical Jobs
- Pressure washing a block-paved driveway and resanding the joints
- Boarding part of a loft and fitting a folding ladder
- Fitting a key safe and a grab rail for an elderly relative
- Assembling a garden shed on an existing base
- Moving a wardrobe and bed between floors before a carpet is fitted
- Clearing gutters and refixing a loose downpipe on a two-storey house
Why MR HANDY
Why Ask MR HANDY
You deal with one person who will give you a straight answer. If the job can be done well, it is quoted before any work starts; if it cannot, you are told so and, where possible, told who does that kind of work. It costs nothing to ask.
Odd jobs are the core of the business, not an afterthought. Being asked to do something slightly unusual is normal, and the same care over preparation, fixings and tidying up applies whether the job takes twenty minutes or two days.
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Questions
Any Other Services FAQs
How do I ask about a job that is not listed?
Is there anything you definitely will not do?
Do you do work for businesses as well as homes?
Can you do a one-off job, or does it need to be a list?
What if you cannot tell whether the job is possible until you see it?
Need Any Other Services Doing?
Send a description or a few photographs and you will get a clear, no-obligation price.