One number for the whole list
We answer the handyman hourly rate question with one written number for your whole list. Somebody looks at every item in person before that number goes on paper.
That number covers every item of small repairs and home repair on the list. We take these jobs around Hot Springs and Hot Springs Village. The visit costs nothing, and the number stays the same unless you change the job.
What a small job list covers
Small work covers a patched drywall corner and a sink swap. It also takes in a door reset in its jamb, interior paint, cabinet painting, tile regrouting and shelving.
One list can cross four trades, and all four fit inside one job with us. One crew handles the drywall, the paint, the plumbing fixture and the tile. You make one call and get one schedule.
The four things that move the number
How many items you put on the list moves the number first. Bring the whole list to the visit, and every item goes on one written number.
What we have to open up moves it next. A drywall corner damaged to the paper takes joint compound and a matched texture coat. A corner damaged to the stud takes new board behind it before the compound goes on.
The material you pick moves it again. A pull-down faucet and a drop-in sink cost what they cost at the counter, and we put your choice on the written number.
Paint past the patch moves the last of it. A fresh patch shows against paint that has been on the wall for years. So a repair often ends with paint on the whole wall or on the room, and you pick which before we open a can.
Four small jobs, before and after
A drywall corner beside an exterior door had been scraped through the paint and gouged to the paper. We filled it and sanded it flat. Then the crew painted it to match the texture around it, and you cannot find that corner now.
A door jamb had split along its full height, with the casing pulling away from the wall. The crew filled the split and painted the jamb and the casing white.
A kitchen counter had an open granite cutout with the supply lines and the disposal showing underneath. It now has a stainless drop-in sink with a pull-down faucet.
A lakeside balcony had tile with the grout joints soiled dark. We scraped the old joints out and packed fresh light gray grout down the full run to the railing.
All four jobs are in the before and after gallery, with the rest of the finished work.
A door that binds in its frame
A door that binds is usually a jamb out of square. The fix is to shim the jamb and reset the hardware before anybody touches the slab. After that the slab swings clear of the frame, and the threshold gets set flat underfoot.
The order we work a list
The order is the same on any list. The room gets covered and masked first. Then the repairs go in the order that keeps one from marking another, and the paint goes on last.
What we find while it is open
Our crew knows the common problems behind a small repair and looks for them while the wall or the cabinet is open. Under a sink, that means the supply lines and the disposal. Behind a knocked-in corner, it means the framing.
A problem found at that stage still fits inside the price. A small job gets the same finish a whole remodel gets, with no patch left showing and the paint stopping on a clean line at the casing.
If your list includes a bigger room, the same crew handles drywall and interior work across the house. Ask for a free estimate and bring the whole list, or call 501-276-4770 and we set a time to come look.
Every job on this site was finished by the same crew around Hot Springs and Hot Springs Village. Read more about handyman and home repair, look at the finished work, or ask us about your own house.
