It's one person. That's the point.

A photo tells me more in five seconds than a phone call does in five minutes. I can see the wall surface, the outlet, the ceiling height, whether the box under the sink is soaked. So that's where this starts — you send a picture, I send back a number for the whole job, and if you want it, you get an actual arrival time.

The price is flat. It covers the work, getting there, and taking the packaging with me when I leave. It doesn't cover the equipment: you buy the mount, the doorbell, the fan. That keeps my number honest, means you own the parts, and means you aren't paying me a markup on something that arrives tomorrow anyway.

You pay when it's done and you've looked at it. No deposit, no card on file. California caps a down payment at ten per cent for good reason, and asking for nothing at all is simpler than explaining the cap.

I work under California's AB 2622 handyperson exemption, which came into effect on 1 January 2025. It permits an unlicensed person to do work only when three things are all true at once: the total price including materials comes to less than $1,000, no building permit is needed, and the work is done by me without employees or subcontractors.

In practice that means no new circuits, no new outlets, no panel work, no repiping, no water heater or HVAC changeouts, no gas lines, and nothing structural. Electrical and plumbing work I do take on is replacement of existing fixtures on existing connections — a fan onto a fan-rated box that's already there, a disposal onto the drain that's already there.

When something falls outside that, I say so and point you at someone who can do it properly. That happens a few times a month. It's a better outcome than the alternative, for both of us.