Doing your own decorating can seem a great idea when you first come up with it. After all, you have the ideas, you have the tools (or most of them, at least), you have a local DIY superstore for all your supplies. What could possibly go wrong?
You find out the answer halfway through, when it’s already taken longer than expected, it’s playing havoc with both your home and your social life, and nothing looks the way it did in your imagination. Perhaps you should have got a professional in, after all.
What Can a Handyman Do for You?
If you call in a good handyman instead, any disruption can be kept to a minimum and will be finished at the planned time, rather than three weeks later. Even more importantly, each aspect of the decoration will be done expertly, as you visualised it.
The range of services a handyman company such as the Handy Squad can offer is impressive, and goes well beyond painting and papering. For instance, the wall plaster may need repairing. This could be because of the cracks that routinely appear as a house settles, or to fill in holes left by picture hooks, curtain poles or light fittings. A handyman will carry out these repairs as expertly as a plasterer, so they’re left invisible.
Some repairs may be larger scale, such as boarding over and plastering a doorway you no longer need. A handyman can also repair silicone around a bath, basin or shower tray, removing the old silicone and applying it freshly to seal it perfectly watertight.
Wallpaper and Paint
Wallpaper looks great when it’s hung well, but an amateur job can look awful. A good handy man will cut and hang the strips perfectly straight with the pattern exactly matching up, just as you imagined it.
Painting generally looks easier than it actually is, especially if you have to match up with existing paintwork. Whether you need the whole house done or just an unsightly mark painted over, a handy man can do a professional job on doors, walls and floors. This includes preparing the surfaces, an essential process often skimped or ignored by amateur DIYers.
Find Your Handyman
The catch is, of course, that you have to find a good handyman, and this can depend on where you live. If you’re looking for a handyman Clapham and most of South London is covered by the Handy Squad, but if you’re elsewhere make sure their website specifies all these services. Find the right person, and you’ll never have to go through the headaches of decorating again.
