Monthly Handyman Membership
A monthly handyman membership is an annual program that banks two to three hours of handyman labor against your house every month — same vetted tech, hours roll forward when you skip a month, member labor rate on anything that runs past the booked hours, no per-visit trip charge while the membership is active. From $600 a year for the standard two-hour tier on a typical Seattle home up to $1,800 for the premium tier with a fourth mid-month catchup hour. Sized for the house that uses a steady trickle of small handyman work across the year — picture hanging, hardware swaps, anti-tip anchors, caulk seam refresh, sticky door planing, smoke and CO detector swaps — instead of letting it pile up into one panicked Saturday once a year.
Membership
What Does the Monthly Handyman Membership Include?
The monthly handyman membership is an annual program — billed once at the start of the year — that schedules two or three banked hours of handyman labor against your house every month. The same assigned tech runs the visits whenever possible, carries notes forward from one month to the next, and works against your running list. Hours roll forward when you skip a month (capped at 90 days so balances do not stack indefinitely). The membership covers handyman scope only — gas, hardwired electrical, in-wall plumbing supply or drain, structural framing, and roof replacement live outside this trade and route to a licensed Washington L&I contractor when a job crosses that line.
What Fits in a Two-Hour Monthly Block
A typical two-hour visit on a standard home runs six to ten small items. Two pictures hung in a hallway. One anti-tip bracket on a new dresser. A row of cabinet pulls in the bathroom. A caulk seam refresh around the kitchen sink. A smoke detector swap on the upstairs ceiling. A sticky bedroom door planed at the bottom edge. The exact list is yours — items get added to the running list across the month and the tech works whatever you put on it. We size the list to the block on the visit confirmation the day before.
How the Three-Hour Block and Premium Tier Differ
The three-hour tier adds a third banked hour each month for households that genuinely use more handyman work — a larger home, more rooms, a longer running list, a regular flow of cabinet hardware, mounting, and small drywall patches. The premium tier ($1,800) adds a fourth mid-month catchup hour, scheduled separately from the main monthly visit, for items that show up between visits and cannot wait the full four weeks. Both tiers keep the same tech, the same notes, and the same member labor rate.
Banked Hours, Rolling Forward, 90-Day Cap
If a month slips — vacation, busy week, the tech rescheduled by a day — the unused hours roll forward to the next visit. A skipped February visit means six banked hours available in March (two from February rolled, two for March itself, and one already-pre-banked from the previous January rollover, for example). The cap is 90 days; balances older than that retire so the membership rolls clean from one quarter to the next. Member benefits (the labor rate, the no-trip-charge, the priority scheduling within the membership tier) continue regardless of rollover.
Member Labor Rate on Add-Ons, No Trip Charge
If the day-of list runs past the booked hours, additional time is billed at the member labor rate — lower than the public hourly rate — with your sign-off before the rate clock starts. No per-visit trip charge while the membership is active; the trip cost is in the annual fee, not added to every visit. Same applies if the tech is out at your house for an urgent priority-response call you booked separately (members stacking monthly with priority-response often see the no-trip-charge benefit pay out multiple times per quarter).
Multi-Property Tier for Households With a Second Address
The $1,500 multi-property tier covers two residential addresses on the same route — main home plus a second residence within the metro service area. The tech runs a longer combined visit each month, splits the banked hours across both properties per your priorities (often one and a half hours at the main home, half an hour at the rental), and writes a one-page summary for each address. Right for landlords with one rental, snowbirds with a Seattle main plus a winterized secondary, and family members carrying handyman load for an aging parent's home.
How a Monthly Handyman Membership Visit Works
The sequence we follow on every monthly membership visit, from the running list captured between months to the cleanup that lands inside the booked block.
Running List Between Months
You add items to a shared note (or text the dispatcher) as they come up across the month. Sticky door. Two cabinet pulls. Smoke detector at the ten-year mark. Anti-tip on the new dresser. The list lives in one place so nothing gets forgotten, and the tech opens it on his tablet the morning of the visit.
Visit Confirmation the Day Before
The tech (or dispatcher) confirms the visit window and walks the list with you over text or a quick call — what fits in the booked hours, what needs to roll to next month, whether any items need specialty hardware loaded on the truck (masonry sleeves for a brick wall, longer-shank toggles for plaster, smart-lock kit).
Truck Loaded Against the Specific List
The truck gets loaded for your actual visit — not a generic small-task kit. Wall-side hardware matched to your wall types, the specific cabinet pulls and detector models you supplied, drywall mud and primer if any patches are on the list. Specialty hardware surcharge ($40) only applies when masonry, plaster, or smart-lock work is on the visit list.
Sequenced Execution During the Block
Items that need dry time go first so the cure happens in parallel with other work — drywall patches before mounting, mounting before caulking. Hardware swaps, door planing, and small fixture changes fill the cure windows. Caulking and final mounts come last. The sequence is built around the list, not improvised on arrival.
Honest Communication on Overruns
If the list runs past the booked hours we tell you before the next thirty-minute increment starts — never a surprise on the invoice. The extension is billed at the member labor rate (lower than public hourly), with your sign-off before the rate clock starts. If items cannot fit they roll to next month's banked hours.
Same-Day Visit Notes Carry Forward
The tech logs every item touched, anything flagged for follow-up (a wall stud that ended up empty where you wanted a heavy mount, a door that needs a longer hinge screw not on the truck, a caulk seam that needs a second coat after the first cures), and what is on the next month's running list. The note is open on his tablet at the next visit.
Monthly Handyman Membership Pricing
Annual membership pricing depends on home size, the tier selected (two hours, three hours, multi-property, or premium with mid-month catchup), and any travel premium for properties outside the standard Seattle metro radius. Members pay a discounted member labor rate on add-on work past the booked hours and skip the per-visit trip charge while the membership is active. Request a free estimate for an accurate quote.
Tell us the home size and how the house uses a handyman across a year — we will pick the tier and quote it.
Why Seattle Homeowners Book the Monthly Handyman Membership
A monthly membership only pays back when the visits actually happen on the schedule and the hours actually get used on the right items. The failure mode of most subscription services is the opposite — the visit lands, the tech is unfamiliar with the house, the list got forgotten between months, and the time gets spent on the loud item instead of the dozen small items that prevent loud items. Our monthly membership is built around the running list, the same tech, and the notes carrying forward — so the visit is short, specific, and pre-loaded for the actual house, every month.
Same tech, notes that open before he knocks
Each monthly member gets a primary tech who runs the visits and carries notes from one month to the next. Last month's running list is open on his tablet before he gets out of the truck. The picture rail you flagged in March is on the bookmark list in April. If the primary is out (vacation, illness, a backlog spike) a backup runs the visit with the notes in hand and the primary takes the next one. Most members keep the same tech for years.
Hours bank and roll, capped so balances do not stack indefinitely
Skipped a month? The two or three banked hours roll forward to the next visit, capped at 90 days. A skipped February means up to six banked hours available in March, sequenced across a longer single visit or split across two shorter visits within the same month. The 90-day cap keeps balances honest — unused hours older than three months retire, so the membership rolls clean from one quarter to the next.
Member labor rate on add-ons, no trip charge on visits
If your visit list runs past the booked hours, the extra time bills at member labor rate (lower than the public hourly), with your sign-off before the rate clock starts — never a surprise on the invoice. No per-visit trip charge while the membership is active; the trip cost is bundled in the annual fee. Members stacking monthly with priority-response usually see the no-trip-charge benefit pay back multiple times per quarter.
Honest scope — handyman work only, contractor handoff when needed
Monthly visits cover handyman scope only — mounting and hanging, small drywall and patch repairs, caulk and weatherstrip, door planing and hardware, cabinet pulls, anti-tip, smoke and CO detectors, light fixture swaps on existing wiring, faucet aerators and toilet seats. Anything inside a wall on a supply or drain line, gas appliances, hardwired electrical, new 120V or 240V circuits, roof replacement, structural framing, or work requiring a permit routes to a licensed Washington L&I contractor — we name the issue in the visit notes and recommend who to call, then come back for the finish work after their rough-in.
Insured, background-checked, 30-day workmanship guarantee
Every Handis handyman carries liability insurance and has cleared a background screening before the first visit. The 30-day workmanship guarantee applies to every item touched during a monthly visit — a mount that shifts, a patch that cracks, a caulk seam that pulls, an anchor that backs out, a door that starts dragging again because of how we set it. We come back and fix it at no extra charge.
Estimate
Tell us the home size and rough age, which monthly tier you are thinking about (two-hour standard, three-hour standard, multi-property, premium with mid-month catchup), and any current items on the running list — sticky doors, anti-tip needs, picture rail, caulk seams, smoke detectors. We send a clear annual estimate.
Customer Reviews
Real monthly handyman membership visits from verified Seattle-area Handis customers.
Two-hour tier for almost two years. Same tech every visit. He has hung sixteen pictures, anchored four bookshelves, swapped every smoke detector at the ten-year mark, planed the upstairs bedroom door twice (humidity moves it), and replaced seven cabinet pulls. The list never feels long because nothing piles up. Best $600 we spend on the house.
Three-hour tier because we have a 3,400-square-foot house and the list grows fast. He works the running list end to end every month. Last visit was four picture frames in the hallway, anti-tip on a newly-delivered bedroom set, two cabinet pull rows in the kitchen, a sticky bathroom door, and a caulk seam refresh around the master tub. Three hours, exactly the right size.
Multi-property tier — our main house in Ballard plus a small rental in Greenwood. Same tech handles both. He runs a longer combined visit once a month, half an hour at the rental between turnovers and an hour and a half at our place. Tenants get fast responses on small stuff, we never have to chase a separate booking. One annual fee, two addresses covered.
Premium tier with the mid-month catchup hour. We had been on the three-hour tier but kept burning the schedule with calls between visits — a deadbolt that broke, a closet rod that pulled out, a smoke detector chirping at 2 a.m. The mid-month hour is exactly what we needed. Now nothing waits more than two weeks.
Two-hour tier for my mom's house — she is 78 and the list grew faster than she could keep up with it. The first three months caught up a year of small repairs (lever handles on every interior door, grab bar in the bath, anti-tip on the bedroom dresser, three smoke detectors). Now the visits are short and steady. Same tech every month — she calls him by his first name.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the monthly handyman membership — pricing, scope, banked hours, scheduling, what fits in a visit, and what routes to a licensed Washington L&I contractor.