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We got called out to install two ceiling fans. Straightforward job, in and out.

While we were there, we noticed the front door frame needed paint. Not dramatically – the kind of thing you’d walk past a hundred times without registering it. But paint is the only thing standing between wood and weather, and once it goes, the wood starts drinking.

We mentioned it. ...

There is no test to become a handyman.

That’s the part most people don’t realise. Somebody can decide on a Tuesday that they’re in the home repair business, get a magnet made for the truck door, and be taking deposits by Thursday. Nothing stops them. And most of the time it goes fine, right up until the day it doesn’t.

We are not going to spend this post running...

Every year around the middle of September, the phone changes.

The outside work starts winding down. Deck jobs, siding, gutters, the roof repairs people put off all summer – those all have a clock on them, and once the weather turns, that clock runs out. Then December comes, and January, and February, and the calendar gets thin.

Here’s the thing most people don’t...