Timber Floors Revived + Home Refresh
Floors sanded back to their natural colour, plus an air-con fix, new hot plate and range hood, bathroom ceiling, courtyard tidy-up and cupboard repairs.
Need a Handyman in Wollongong? Start With the List.
Handy Tradie 4 U is a handyman in Wollongong working across the Illawarra and South Coast, from Helensburgh down to Nowra. We do the jobs that have sat on the fridge note for six months: the tap that drips, the door that will not shut, the shelf nobody has put up, the fence paling that went in the last southerly. Most of our customers are homeowners and renters with a list rather than one job, so we quote the visit rather than each item. Owner Marcio runs the jobs himself. Send the list through the instant quote tool for a ballpark in a couple of minutes, or call 0413 147 335 and read it out.
Handyman work across Wollongong and the Illawarra
Licensed and insured
ABN 91 639 254 685
Insured on every job
Wollongong based, covering 24 Illawarra and South Coast areas
Instant ballpark estimate before you call
One visit, several trades, one invoice
Most jobs on an Illawarra maintenance list are not one big problem. They are five or six small ones that have built up over months: a door that sticks in summer, plasterboard dinged by a handle, a gutter joint weeping over the deck, a flat-pack wardrobe still in its box, a side gate that stopped latching.
Call a separate trade for each and you pay a separate call-out for each, then wait on four different schedules to line up. The point of a handyman who also welds, does carpentry and patches is that the whole list gets cleared in one booking, by one person, on one invoice.
Where a job needs a specialist, we bring in the right trade and coordinate it, so you are still dealing with one number and one point of contact.
Licensed and insured. ABN 91 639 254 685.
Handyman services across the Illawarra
The list is predictable here because the housing stock is: fibro and weatherboard on the northern escarpment, post-war brick through Figtree and Unanderra, newer slab-on-ground estates at Horsley, Albion Park and Shell Cove, and salt air over all of it.
That plays out differently street to street. The older timber and fibro stock through Woonona, Corrimal and Fairy Meadow throws up external timber, gutters and doors that have dropped out of square. Figtree adds the problems that come with sloping blocks and reactive clay underneath them. The flatter, newer housing at Dapto and Warilla fails in its fittings rather than its structure, and at Warilla everything metal wears faster because of the salt. In the units and apartments around North Wollongong and the Wollongong CBD the work is the same but the access, the lift and the noise hours decide how it gets done.
Repairs around the house
Dripping taps and tap washers. Door handles, deadlatches and strike plates. Doors that stick, drop or will not latch, which in older Illawarra homes is usually the hinges or a frame that has moved rather than the door. Wall patching. Loose tiles and regrouting. Flyscreen and security screen repairs, including re-meshing. Smoke alarms. Shower screen and sliding door rollers. Skirting and architrave repairs.
Mounting, hanging and installation
TV wall mounting, fixed into the stud rather than hoped into plasterboard. Shelves, mirrors and heavy artwork, fixed to suit what is actually behind the wall. Towel rails, robe hooks and holders. Blinds and curtain tracks. Child safety gates and furniture anchors. Handrails, where the fixing matters more than the rail.
Flat-pack assembly and cupboard fixes
Flat-pack furniture and kitchen cabinetry assembled and levelled. Cupboard doors realigned, hinges adjusted or replaced, soft-close upgrades, drawer runners, kickboards and end panels. A cupboard door that has annoyed you daily for a year is usually a ten minute hinge adjustment.
Where a kit will never fit the opening you have, we also build custom built-in wardrobes to measure instead.
Outside jobs, fences and gutters
Fence palings, rails and gates that have dropped and now scrape. Gutter and downpipe clearing, which the northern suburbs need more often than people expect because of the escarpment leaf drop. Vent covers. Clotheslines. Letterboxes. Pressure washing. Garden taps.
Welding and metal repairs, which most handymen cannot do
Welding and metal fabrication is our main trade, so no other Illawarra handyman matches this on the same visit. A rusted gate hinge, cracked balustrade, split trailer frame or handrail pulled out of the brickwork gets repaired on site with mobile welding, instead of being carted off and returned a week later.
MIG for mild steel and heavier section, TIG for thin-wall stainless and aluminium, so the repair suits the metal in front of us. Where the metalwork is the whole reason you are calling, it is handled as gates, handrails and balustrades or rust and weld repairs in its own right.
How we quote a handyman visit
We do not publish hourly rates or price ranges, because no two lists are the same. Marcio looks at the job, works out the access, the materials and the condition of what is already there, and gives you a firm figure before anything starts. You approve that figure, then we book the visit.
Bundling is cheaper. Travel, setup and pack-down happen once whether we fix one thing or seven, so six small jobs in one visit cost far less than six separate call-outs. That is why we quote the visit rather than the item.
Three things move a quote: hardware trips, who supplies the materials, and access. Sloped blocks through Thirroul, Austinmer and the escarpment suburbs add ladder and carry time, and that goes in the quote rather than appearing at the end.
For a ballpark before you speak to anybody, send the list through the instant quote tool on this page. For a firm figure, call 0413 147 335 and we will arrange a look at the job.
On larger work the paperwork follows the NSW home building rules. Residential building work with a contract price over $5,000 including GST needs a written contract. Work worth $5,000 to $20,000 can run under a small works contract, and work worth more than $20,000 requires a full home building contract, which also needs home building compensation cover and the insurance certificate that goes with it. The maximum deposit that may be requested is 10 per cent, on a small job or a large one, and any variation is agreed in writing before the varied work happens.
How a handyman visit runs
Send the list.
One job or twelve, with photos of anything mounted, rusted or broken.
We quote the visit.
You get the price before we book it, and anything needing a specialist trade gets flagged now.
We bring the right gear.
Materials sorted first, so the visit is not half spent at the hardware.
We knock the list over.
If an item is bigger than the photo suggested, you hear it then, with a price.
Done, not half done.
Work checked, rubbish taken, every job shown to you before we leave.
Why people call us rather than wait three weeks
1
Small jobs actually get booked.
Most trades will not come out for a tap washer and a door adjustment.
2
One visit, several trades.
Handyman work, carpentry and welding from the same van.
3
You know the price first.
The instant quote tool gives a ballpark before you speak to anyone, and the visit price is agreed before we start.
4
Local.
Wollongong based, Marcio quotes and does the job, and where a specialist trade is needed we bring one in and coordinate it.
Insured on every job. Agencies, strata managers and landlords run us as an account for ongoing property maintenance across a portfolio.
Suburbs we cover from Helensburgh to Nowra
Helensburgh, Thirroul, Woonona, Bulli, Corrimal, North Wollongong, Fairy Meadow, Figtree, Unanderra, Port Kembla, Dapto, Horsley, Albion Park, Warilla, Oak Flats, Shellharbour, Shell Cove, Minnamurra, Kiama, Jamberoo, Gerringong, Berry and Nowra.
Just outside the list? Call 0413 147 335. If we are working nearby that week, the answer is usually yes. You can also see all our Illawarra and South Coast service areas.
Get a handyman quote for your list
Write out the list, add a photo of anything broken or mounted, and send it through. The instant quote tool gives you a ballpark estimate in about two minutes, so you know roughly what the visit involves before you talk to anybody.
Call 0413 147 335 or email info@handytradie4u.com. Handy Tradie 4 U, Wollongong NSW 2500, ABN 91 639 254 685, licensed and insured.
Our Work
Recent Work
Framing, fixing and installation work from a recent maintenance visit
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Questions
Handyman Questions
How do you price a handyman job in Wollongong?+
We do not publish hourly rates or price ranges. We look at the list, work out access, materials and the condition of what is already there, and give you a firm figure before any work starts. Bundling several small jobs into one visit is cheaper, because travel and setup happen once. The instant quote tool on this page gives a ballpark in about two minutes, or call 0413 147 335 and read the list out.
Can you do several small jobs in one visit?+
Yes, and it is the most common way we work. Send the whole list and we quote it as one visit rather than pricing each item.
What jobs can a handyman not do in NSW?+
Where a job needs a specialist trade, such as electrical, plumbing or gas work, we bring that trade in and coordinate it, and the compliance certificate comes from the tradesperson who did the work.
Is a job too small to call about?+
No. One dripping tap is a fair reason to call. Small jobs are what this service exists for.
How quickly can you come out?+
You get a real timeframe when you book, not a vague callback. Small jobs are not left waiting weeks.
Do you charge a call-out fee?+
Travel, setup and pack-down are worked into the price we quote for the visit, so there is nothing separate added afterwards. You see the price for the whole visit before we book it.
Do I need a written contract for the work?+
The contract price decides. Residential building work over $5,000 including GST needs a written contract. Work worth $5,000 to $20,000 can be done under a small works contract, and work worth more than $20,000 needs a full home building contract with home building compensation cover and the insurance certificate that goes with it. The maximum deposit that may be requested is 10 per cent, and variations are agreed in writing before the varied work happens. We are licensed and insured, ABN 91 639 254 685.
Are you licensed and insured?+
Yes. Licensed and insured, and insured on every job. ABN 91 639 254 685.
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