On a personal note

Please let me take this opportunity to thank you for taking the time to look around and perhaps, if you have the time, to read a little further.

I’m sorry to say that I can’t offer you the so called assurance of a professional qualification because there isn’t such a thing for being a Handyman.

You can rest assured that if there was I would have it and, in all probability, charge the ridiculous rates that most tradesmen and companies seem do on the grounds that it would make me a “Professional”.

Being a Handyman comes down to several things; having an aptitude for the work, an understanding of the materials involved, comprehension of the job at hand, common sense and above all, experience!

And that is what I have after over twenty something years of doing it for myself and others.

You don’t get a piece of paper waved in your face, no shiny van complete with corporate logo and no ridiculous surcharges hidden in an unexplainable bill. Oh, and I won’t treat you like an idiot because you can’t do what I do because I can’t do what my nuclear physicist customer does! (Thanks. Anon)

You do get a good job, an honest opinion, the best advice I can give, a free estimate, a no charge visit, a conscienscious worker and, as another customer put it, someone who knows how to clean up after themselves. (Thanks. Eileen)

I work on the rather outdated basis of a fair days wage for a fair days work. I’m not stupid and neither are my customers so I see no reason to try and fleece them for money I haven’t earned and jeapordise my hard earned good reputation.

Words are cheap. Try me or ask for a reference from an existing customer. (And, no, it won’t be my Mum, my brother nor my Great Aunts cat!)