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Handyman price - just wanted to cross reference
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My handyman charges £15 oer hour and I live in Yorkshire. He has done such things as gardening, repairs to garden wall, decorating, fitting curtain rails/pole, ripping up carpets, clearing gutters, washing down outside gutters, drainpipes, dismantling an old shed and laying turf in that area, replacing light fittings etc.
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I've worked for three years as a handyman in a seaside town in North Wales and charge £30 minimum and that covers the first hour, after the first hour I charge £25 per hour, in 15 minute units, so 1¼ hours would be £36.25 and two hours £55.
It's very rare that anyone says they think my charges are excessive.
I offer to quote people a price for a job but they are usually happy to pay at an hourly rate. If they do want a set price I tell them I'm likely to charge a bit more to cover myself in case I underestimate how long it will take.
Most of my business comes via my website and people find me on Google searches, I come up at the top of searches and it costs me nothing because I'm registered with "Google My Business" - a bit of Google that you may well not have heard of and the most valuable bit of advice I ever received when setting up my business. It probably helps if you call yourself The X Town Handyman because your business name will describe what you do and where you are.1
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