Our services
Eleven trades, one company, one written quote.
Most jobs on this list turn up together — the leak, the door, the trim that never went back. They get done in one visit rather than one call-out each.
I own a home
Repairs, remodeling and the list that never gets shorter
General Repairs
The jobs that have been on the list for months — doors that stick, running toilets, a handrail that moved, trim that never went back. Priced as one visit rather than one call-out each.
Carpentry
Trim, doors, framing and built-ins, including the repairs that need a carpenter rather than a patch — rotten sill plates, a stair tread, a door that needs the frame squared before it will shut.
Painting & Decorating
Interior and exterior painting with the preparation done properly — filling, sanding, caulking and priming, which is the part that decides whether the finish lasts.
Plumbing Repairs
Leaks, drips, blocked drains, failed shut-offs, and fixture replacement — taps, toilets, vanities and water heaters.
Electrical Repairs
Switches, outlets, fixtures and fault-finding on circuits that trip, plus the small additions that come up during a remodel.
Garage Cleanup & Organization
Clearing, sorting, hauling and organizing a garage back into a space you can park in — quoted per job on the size of the garage and how much is in it, not from a price list.
Gutter Protection
Gutter clearing, re-hanging and the soffit, fascia and downspout repairs behind them — and guards fitted once the roofline underneath is sound enough to carry them.
Furniture Assembly
Flat-pack and delivered furniture assembled, leveled and where needed anchored to the wall — including the pieces that arrive with a part missing.
Lawn Care & Landscaping
Weekly mowing rounds for homes, rentals and commercial sites, plus the first cut of the season, overgrowth recovery and brush and yard clearance. Quoted per property, because a quarter-acre lot and a commercial site with a parking lot are not the same round.
Snow Removal & Plowing
Parking lots plowed, walkways and entrances cleared, and salt laid where it is wanted — for commercial sites, rental portfolios and homes. Booked before the season rather than during it, and quoted per property.
Attic Ladders & Attic Fans
Pull-down ladders fitted and made safe to climb, hatches that never sat flush put right, attics cleared and sealed against what got in. Attic and gable fans quoted as new work — this page says which is which.
I manage properties
Turns, make-ready and the repairs between tenants
General Repairs
The jobs that have been on the list for months — doors that stick, running toilets, a handrail that moved, trim that never went back. Priced as one visit rather than one call-out each.
Carpentry
Trim, doors, framing and built-ins, including the repairs that need a carpenter rather than a patch — rotten sill plates, a stair tread, a door that needs the frame squared before it will shut.
Painting & Decorating
Interior and exterior painting with the preparation done properly — filling, sanding, caulking and priming, which is the part that decides whether the finish lasts.
Plumbing Repairs
Leaks, drips, blocked drains, failed shut-offs, and fixture replacement — taps, toilets, vanities and water heaters.
Electrical Repairs
Switches, outlets, fixtures and fault-finding on circuits that trip, plus the small additions that come up during a remodel.
Turnover & Make-Ready
Unit turns for landlords and property managers — trash-out, repairs, paint and make-ready cleaning, signed off against a 13-point photo checklist so the condition of the unit is on record before the next tenant.
Furniture Assembly
Flat-pack and delivered furniture assembled, leveled and where needed anchored to the wall — including the pieces that arrive with a part missing.
Lawn Care & Landscaping
Weekly mowing rounds for homes, rentals and commercial sites, plus the first cut of the season, overgrowth recovery and brush and yard clearance. Quoted per property, because a quarter-acre lot and a commercial site with a parking lot are not the same round.
Snow Removal & Plowing
Parking lots plowed, walkways and entrances cleared, and salt laid where it is wanted — for commercial sites, rental portfolios and homes. Booked before the season rather than during it, and quoted per property.
Every turn is signed off against the same 13-point photo checklist, so the condition of the unit is on record before the next tenant walks in. A W-9 and a certificate of insurance go out with every signed quote.
Most asked for
The jobs people ask for by name
These sit inside the trades above, but they get asked for by name often enough to deserve an answer of their own — including the part about when they are not a handyman job at all.
Ceiling fan installation and replacement
A ceiling fan put up, swapped or taken down. The thing that decides whether it is a simple job is the box in the ceiling: a standard lighting box is not rated to hold a fan, and that is the most common dangerous mistake in this whole category.
Blocked & slow drains
Sinks, baths, showers, basement wash basins and floor drains cabled and cleared, flow-tested before we leave — and told plainly when the fault is the shared line and needs a licensed plumber with a camera instead.
Drywall & ceiling repair
Holes, cracks, nail pops, water-damaged board and full ceiling replacement — patched, taped, floated, textured to match and finished, with an honest answer about when a patch is going to show.
Water damage repair
Putting a house back after water — ceilings and drywall cut out above the waterline and replaced, soaked insulation and soft subfloor removed, trim, cabinets and paint made good, with a moisture reading rather than a hand on the wall deciding when it is dry enough to start.
Mold removal & remediation
Mold found, the water behind it found and stopped, affected material cut out and hard surfaces cleaned and treated — with an honest line, drawn by area rather than by what we would like to sell, about where this becomes a certified remediator’s job instead of ours.
Basement waterproofing & wet basements
Finding out why a basement is wet before selling anything to fix it — gutters, downspouts and grade first, then window wells, crack sealing, sump pumps and discharge lines — and saying plainly which jobs are a foundation specialist’s rather than taking them on.
Gutter repair & downspouts
Gutters cleared, re-hung, re-pitched and sealed, and downspouts moved to discharge somewhere that is not against your foundation — which is the cheapest fix for a wet basement there is.
Low-slope roof repair
Repairs to flat and low-slope membrane roofs — EPDM seams, modified bitumen patching, blocked drains and the water that stands because of them. Shingles and steep slopes are a roofer’s trade and are not taken on.
Appliance delivery, install & removal
Collecting, delivering, fitting, swapping and taking away dishwashers, refrigerators, ranges, microwaves, washers and dryers — hooked to the connections that are already there.
Leaks, flooding & water clean-up
Finding where water is actually coming from and stopping it — supply lines, shut-offs, traps, hose bibs and dye tests — then the basement clean-up and the make-good behind it.
Rental turnovers & make-ready
Between-tenant turns for landlords and property managers — trash-out, repairs, paint and make-ready cleaning, signed off against a 13-point photo checklist so the condition of the unit is on record before the next tenant.
Rental inspection corrections
Working a city rental-inspection or Section 8 correction list back into compliance, item by item, with the paperwork that gets you through the re-inspection.
Doors, locks & hardware
Doors that stick, drop, will not latch or will not lock — plus screens, storm doors, closers, hinges, weather stripping and commercial hardware.
Floors & subfloors
Soft floors, failed subfloor, vinyl plank and sheet vinyl — including the bathroom floors that have been leaking under the finish for longer than anybody realized.
Exterior boards & roofline
Fascia, soffit, siding, trim, flashing and gutter work — the roofline components that let water into a wall long before anybody sees a stain inside.
Decks, porches & sheds
Deck and porch repair, resurfacing and painting, plus shed doors, pads, wrap and the rebuilds — the outdoor structures that get eight months of weather and four months of use.
Bathroom exhaust fan testing
A fan that spins is not a fan that works. Measuring what it actually pulls — and following the duct to wherever it really ends — is how you find out whether yours is doing anything at all.
TV mountingNew
A television fixed to the wall so it cannot come off it, with the cables run where you cannot see them. Most of the price is not the bracket — it is what is behind the plaster where the screen needs to go, and whether the cords can be hidden legally.
Grab bars and bathroom safetyNew
Grab bars fixed so they hold a person who is already falling. The bar is the cheap part and almost never the problem — what matters is whether there is something solid behind the tile, and whether anybody checked before drilling.
Shelves, mirrors and wall hangingNew
Shelving, mirrors, artwork, pegboard and anything else that has to go on a wall and stay level. A small job with one hard question in it, which is what the wall is made of and whether the fixing suits it.
Blinds, shades and curtain rodsNew
Blinds, shades, curtain poles and tracks measured, fitted level and fixed into something that holds them. The two things that go wrong are a measurement taken the wrong way and a rod hung on drywall anchors that cannot take a pulled curtain.
Ceiling texture & texture matchingNew
Knockdown, orange peel, stomp, skip trowel and smooth — new texture sprayed or troweled, and existing texture matched over a repair, with an honest answer up front about when a patch is going to show and when the whole plane has to be redone.
Popcorn ceiling removalNew
Textured ceilings scraped off, skimmed flat and left paint-ready — the dated look gone, the joints and nail pops underneath properly finished, and the mess contained rather than walked through the rest of the house.
Fire & smoke damage repairNew
Fire and smoke damage put back — scorched and smoke-stained drywall and ceilings replaced, burnt trim, doors and cabinets renewed, soot cleaned off and sealed rather than painted over, and the rebuild once a restoration contractor has finished. The small fire nobody will come out for, and the reconstruction half of a bigger one.
Radon sealing & mitigation supportNew
The sealing half of radon work, done to the standard a certified mitigator actually wants — floor and wall joints, control joints, penetrations, a gasketed sump cover and a sealed crawl space membrane — with the testing and the active system referred out, and a plain statement that sealing on its own is not mitigation.
Crawl space encapsulation & insulationNew
A crawl space cleared out, the water dealt with first, then a continuous sealed membrane to the code specification, the stem walls and rim joist insulated and air sealed — and the one question asked before any of it, which is what appliances are down there and how they vent.
Air sealing & draft proofingNew
Finding and closing the gaps that let heated air out of a house — attic top plates, chases, the hatch, the rim joist, penetrations and the places a bathroom fan empties into — done before insulation rather than after it, because insulation does not stop moving air.
Attic insulationNew
Attic insulation topped up or replaced to a depth that is worth having, after the air sealing and after the eaves baffles — with the four things that have to be checked before any material goes down, and what to do about what is already up there.
Home energy assessmentNew
A measured survey of where a house loses heat and what it would cost to stop — blower door, infrared, combustion safety, and a written report with the work in the order it should be done.
Blower door testNew
A calibrated fan sealed into a doorway that measures how much air your house leaks — the only way to turn a draft into a number you can act on and check afterward.
Ice dam preventionNew
Ice dams are an attic problem wearing a roof problem’s clothes. Stopping them means stopping heat reaching the roof deck — not heating the ice off.
Duct sealingNew
Up to a fifth of the air your furnace heats can be lost through gaps in the ductwork before it reaches a room — and the ducts are in the basement, where nobody ever looks.
Airbnb & short-term rental upkeepNew
Repair runs between guests, guest-damage fixes, locks and keypads, and the physical items an inspection flags — for hosts in Greater Lansing who do not live at the property.
Rental inspection prepNew
Walking a rental unit against the property maintenance code before the city inspector does, and closing what would have failed — for Lansing certificate of compliance inspections, East Lansing rental license renewals, and Section 8 HQS visits.
Section 8 inspections — HQS & NSPIRENew
Getting a Housing Choice Voucher unit through its inspection — prep before the inspector arrives and corrections after a fail — under Housing Quality Standards or NSPIRE, whichever your housing commission is currently inspecting under.
Water heater combustion testingNew
A gas water heater is supposed to send its exhaust up the flue. Testing finds out whether yours actually does — and whether it stops doing it the moment a bathroom fan comes on.
Furnace combustion testingNew
Measuring what comes out of a furnace while it runs — and whether any of it is reaching the air you breathe rather than the flue. Testing and reporting only: the repair is a licensed trade.
Government & public facility repairsNew
Repair and maintenance work for townships, counties, districts and other public bodies — aimed at the jobs small enough that an agency can buy them directly, without a sealed bid and without a bond.
School district facility repairsNew
Repair, maintenance and small installation work for Michigan school districts — written around the three things that actually decide whether a school job happens: the summer window, the bidding base and the background check.
Building your own homeNew
Michigan lets you build the house you are going to live in yourself, without a builder license, and lets you do it without an architect under 3,500 square feet. We draw the plans, test whether the parcel and the budget actually work, and teach you the sequence. We do not run the site — that needs a license we do not yet hold, and we say so rather than working around it.
There is no price list, and that is not evasiveness.
Two bathrooms the same size can be a four-figure difference apart depending on what is behind the tile. So we come out, look properly, and put a fixed price in writing with the work set out line by line and the exclusions written down too. If something is found once a wall is open, it is priced as a written change order and you decide before we carry on.
Tell us what needs doing.
Send the details and we will come and look. Quotes are free, and every job is priced individually — we do not work from a rate sheet you have not seen.