The list on your fridge: a visit for the small jobs in Lititz, PA
A visit for the list on your fridge in Lititz runs the $70 hourly rate plus the $30 service charge — most take 2–4 hours, so $170–$310 before materials.
The dozen small things that have been waiting, done in one visit, in the order you care about.
What it costs
$70 per hour — most of this work takes 2–4 hours.
$30 service charge. Covers the trip and the first look. Applies once per visit, including the preset jobs.
- Light switches done together, or alongside a fixture or fan: $14 per switch.
- 5% off each additional larger job done on the same visit, up to 20% total.
Materials are extra, at cost, with the receipt. The full rate sheet has the rest of the fine print.
What's included
- One visit and one service charge, with the list worked top to bottom in your order
- The small hardware on the van: anchors, screws, caulk, blades, wire nuts, felt pads, putty
- A walk through the list first with a rough time against each item, so what doesn't fit is what you care least about
- A price before anything that turns out to be a bigger job starts
What's not
- Materials and fixtures
- Bigger jobs. If something on the list turns out to be a project, it gets its own estimate instead of eating the visit
- A promise that fourteen items fit in two hours. The list is worked in order and what's left stays on it
What to have ready
- The list, written down, in the order that annoys you most
- Anything you've already bought for it, in one place
- Access: rooms clear, attic hatch reachable, pets settled somewhere else
Where I do this work
Lititz, PA and anywhere within about an hour of it — Lancaster County and the towns around it.
Lititz, Manheim, Ephrata, Lancaster, Elizabethtown, Mount Joy, Denver, Akron.
Questions people ask
- How many things fit in one visit?
- More than you would think, because the trip and the setup happen once instead of eight times. Four to eight small jobs in a half day is normal, and the order is yours to set.
- Is a list cheaper than booking the jobs one at a time?
- Yes, and that's the whole point: one service charge instead of several, plus the bundle discount on each additional larger job on the same visit.
- What counts as a small job?
- Blinds, shelves, towel bars, door latches, cabinet hinges, toilet seats, weatherstripping, popped nails, a wobbling stair spindle, a switch plate that never went back on, a smoke detector you can't reach.
- What if something on the list turns out to be serious?
- Then it comes off the list with a price and a plan instead of becoming a surprise. A loose banister or a running toilet is almost always small. A soft floor next to a toilet isn't, and I'll say so.
How the job goes
The drive, the walk-through, the ladder coming off the truck, the drop cloth going down — that setup is most of what makes one small job feel expensive, and it only happens once when ten things get done in the same couple of hours.
So the first ten minutes are the two of us walking the list in your order, with a rough time next to each line. Then I work it from the top. Small jobs are pretty predictable in a way big ones aren’t: a blind bracket, a loose stair spindle, a towel bar that pulled out of hollow drywall and needs a real anchor, a door that started dragging, a toilet seat, the smoke detector in the stairwell ceiling you can’t reach. Whatever doesn’t fit in the time stays on the list in order, so the next visit picks up where this one stopped and nothing’s a surprise. Just text me the list and I’ll tell you roughly how much of it fits in a visit.