Home improvements, renovations and repairs require great amount of skill and getting a good agency or contractor or skilled labor is a huge task in itself. Entrusting the job to an unskilled person or hiring the wrong man for the job can be a nightmare you would do well to avoid. You will end up with more on your hands to manage and your home will be worse off than before.
The home improvement business has grown by leaps and bounds in recent years from the ‘simple handyman’ services earlier. Home improvement agencies provide assistance and support in a great many areas relating to home improvement, home repairs and home renovation, each of which requires highly skilled craftsmen and services of the highest quality. Businesses that provide such services not only have to possess a high degree of knowledge concerning home construction materials and their durability, house plans, building engineering & electrical details etc., but also have complete grasp of geographical locations, climate & weather affecting particular areas, factors like pests and pest-control and several other minutely related points.
Some of the areas that home improvement services undertake to renovate or repair in a home may fall in the main area of the house or kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, attic or the roof and could involve improvement services like repairs and renovations in:
• Basements
• Baseboards
• Crown molding
• Cabinets
• Carpentry
• Countertops installation
• Doors / door frames
• Faucets and sinks
• Floor installations
• Painting
• Tiling
Handyman or Handyperson
The term Handyman or Handyperson is used to refer to a person with a wide range of skills to do minor repairs and corrections around the home. These repair tasks include overall interior and exterior maintenance jobs that classify under electrical, plumbing and other fix-ups. To put it simply, a Handyman can be relied on to do those simple, sometimes a little complex home jobs that can be categorized as DIY.
Somewhere along the way, to improve their chances of getting more projects and contracts especially when job markets were seeing a downturn and putting many out of jobs, a Handyman’s profile altered subtly. Where earlier they were paid workers mainly attending to simple DIYs, they progressed to more complex or skilled jobs like painting, remodeling, carpentry, furniture assembly, reinforcing and many more. They figured that it needed only a little more knowledge and willingness to undertake projects and learn-on-the-job.
Generally, a Handyman’s job is viewed as semi-killed, a low status job ranking below specialists such as carpenters, electricians and plumbers. However, the emergence of ‘home improvement agencies’ that have on their rolls skilled Handymen, that general perception is fast changing and they are being viewed as the “go-to-men”, technicians with a lot of job knowledge and multiple skills to handle a variety of home repair and home improvement tasks. With changing attitudes, they are being treated with great professionalism, better wages and perks, and safer working conditions.
The usefulness of a Handyman’s tools are best illustrated with this example of an Australian doctor who in the absence of an appropriate neurological drill, used a Handyman’s Drill for an emergency surgery to save the life of a 13 year old boy who suffered brain trauma.
