by LJ Baker | Aug 22, 2026 | Job diary
Adventures of a Handy Human… today is cleaning Friday. Two houses, and then my own, as well as taking a client shopping. The shopping part surprises people when they hear it. It is not really a cleaning job and it is not really a handyman job. It is just something...
by LJ Baker | Aug 18, 2026 | How it works
There is a category of job that everybody knows needs doing and nobody does. Usually because it involves a ladder. Solar panels. People are often surprised these need cleaning at all. In this valley they absolutely do — dust through summer, and whatever the trees drop...
by LJ Baker | Aug 4, 2026 | How it works
I would rather be straight about this up front than have you book me for something I am going to turn down when I arrive. Things I do. Replacing a faucet. Swapping a sink. Putting in a garbage disposal or taking a dead one out. Replacing an outlet or a switch on an...
by LJ Baker | Jul 21, 2026 | How it works
If you are lifting your gate with your knee to get it to latch, you do not need a new gate. You almost certainly need one of these three. The post has moved. Ground shifts. A post that is even slightly out of plumb throws the whole gate out, and it shows up as the far...
by LJ Baker | Jul 7, 2026 | How it works
When somebody asks me for a cleaning estimate, my first question is always which one they mean. They are genuinely different jobs. A regular clean is maintenance. Floors, surfaces, kitchen, bathrooms, dusting, the things that need doing because a week has gone by. It...
