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
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.
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.