Gen Wright asked:


Some things are best done when you leave it to the experts. In case of your home improvement activity, you would be well served in hiring a qualified handyman. He would have all the skills to work on your home the way you would have wanted. In the deal, you may have to spend some money, but that will be more than a worthwhile replacement for the time you would have spent had you done all of this by yourselves.

Here are 5 benefits of hiring a qualified handyman

* Best skills on display ? Let us face it. How much ever we try, we may not be able to get proficient in doing home improvement? Handymen do this job day in and out. They are skilled in this job, and trust them to do a good job with your home improvement activity.
* Save your time ? Why do you have to spend 5-6 hours a day for the next week in improving your home? You have an easier alternative in front of you. All you have to do is hire a qualified handyman and consider your job done. In fact, just tell the handyman what he needs to do and carry on with your daily routine as normal.

* Every nook and corner of your home investigated ? Only a handyman will be able to explore and identify small mistakes in your home, improving which would be of prior concern to you. Leave that to the handyman. He will ensure that all possible gaps are fixed without delay.

* Long lasting home improvement ? A home improvement, however desirable it may be, is time consuming for sure. You definitely do not want to keep improving your homes once a month. Allowing a qualified handyman to work on your home will ensure you may not have to think of another home improvement for the next six months to a year.

* Revamping your home could be difficult. Not for the handyman ? Initial days into your home improvement exercise, and you would realize a revamp of your home is necessary. Hire a qualified handyman and consider this tough task done with consummate ease.

This and many more ? You would find that hiring a qualified handyman is always handy for you, especially for a specialized job of that of home improvement. It could dent your wallets a bit, but considering the objectives hiring a handyman helps you in achieving, it is worth every cent of it.

Do some research on the Internet and you would find many qualified handymen offering their services to you. Choose one who has established credentials and experience in this domain. Remember, you would be spending some money on hiring the handyman and you obviously do not want them to go waste.

jeff riley asked:


So you want to know what it takes to be a handy man? A handyman must is to have very good hand/eye coordination, and you must have some commonsense. By common sense I mean if you are changing out a bathroom faucet and you start loosening the supply lines with out securing the water, you are going to get very wet. Commonsense, dont play around with electricty when it is live, you will shock the hell out of yourself or worse. Wear gloves and proper safety equipment when handling hazardous chemicals.

It takes a lot of knowledge in many different trades to be a true handyman. Sometimes you could know how to fix everything around the house but not know anything about Heating, ventilation and refrigeration. A Handyman must be able to complete small tasks around the house, here are some jobs a handyman should be able to complete.

Working on hvac systems, like checking the condenser for proper refrigerent levels, changing an air filter, cleaning dirty coils on an air handler, soldering copper piping together. Recovering refrigent, handling electrical issues with air conditioning systems. Lighting pilot valves on water heaters, replacing electrical and gas type water heaters.

A handy man must also be fluent in plumbing problems and how to fix pipe leaks, stop a toilet from running constantly, change out a kitchen sink and faucet. Replacing a dishwasher withiout flooding the entire house.

Another big part of a handymans duties is painting walls, baseboards, making drywall repairs. It could be replacing a front door, changing out a lockset, installing a bug sweep or putting weatherstripping around an entire doorframe.

Theres hundreds of different tasks that a handyman could run into, so how could one person learn all of this stuff ? They do offer trade schools for Plumbing, HVAC classes and all that but that would take forever to get through.

What I would recommend is to get your HVAC certification. To be HVAC certified you dont really need to know all that much about HVAC, you just have to know about recovering refrigerent and how dangerous cfc’s are to the atmosphere. Basically just studying a book and then you will have to past 4 sifferent tests that are 25 questions each. Once you pass the test then you will be certified to handle refrigents and people will want to hire you.

Once you get that certificaton I would try to get a job at an aprtment complex preferrably and older one. If the complex is old then you know there will be a lot of work to do and you will learn alot of stuff. One thing that sucks is you will have to go on emergency call every once in a while.

Working at an apartment complex for a couple of years wont make you a handyman right off the bat but it will open doors of opportunity for you everywhere.

charlotte q asked:


Can a handyman be responsible for his own tax reporting? Or must he provide his social security number or tax ID to every client he has.