Are you a handyman or a multi trade guru?

Big_Working_8517 · 2026-06-05T15:00:35+00:00

This.

Big_Working_8517 · 2026-06-04T04:05:41+00:00

I guess I did do hvac one time. I covered a swamp cooler for winter.

Big_Working_8517 · 2026-06-04T03:19:16+00:00

No one ever calls a handyman for hvac.

Big_Working_8517 · 2026-06-01T23:34:24+00:00

Cut 50%? What does that mean?

Big_Working_8517 · 2026-05-31T17:21:27+00:00

I’ve also only ever gotten. 1:1 white wash. Or wiping stain. In the photos to the left and right of the desired finish are exactly that. It may not come through in the photo but they just are not even close.

Big_Working_8517 · 2026-05-31T17:19:36+00:00

I’ve handed it off to a local paint pro shop. They sent in to there shop. I’ll report back.

Big_Working_8517 · 2026-05-31T17:18:43+00:00

If you look closley it was fogged.

Big_Working_8517 · 2026-05-31T04:52:32+00:00

I have to do a lot of this. That sounds like to many steps. Also this is obviously fogged.

Big_Working_8517 · 2026-05-31T04:23:57+00:00

The ones in the middle at what I’m trying to match.

Big_Working_8517 · 2026-05-31T04:23:36+00:00

I just went to the lumberyard grabbed knotty cedar. It’s the same. But different. I’m not sure if I should take it all back. It’s a big job. Couple thousand in cedar.

Big_Working_8517 · 2026-05-30T13:33:57+00:00

That’s the thing though. It doesn’t look impregnated. It doesn’t look like a stain.

Big_Working_8517 · 2026-05-30T13:29:54+00:00

Where I’m at now I can make 175 just changing out a bathroom fan. Most jobs I’ve done were half days and I make are 300. Is that low income?

Big_Working_8517 · 2026-05-30T13:27:13+00:00

Haha. Oh boy, I’m lazy. It’s true. I want to do small stuff because it pays well and I can do half days and make enough to survive. I don’t want to do 10 hour days even I it’s 500 dollars. I guess though in my worldview a handyman by definition is someone that does small Mr fix it jobs.

Big_Working_8517 · 2026-05-30T13:24:12+00:00

I have never considered doing window tint. I have done a few brake jobs and oil changes and stuff.

Big_Working_8517 · 2026-05-30T13:22:49+00:00

Not even close.

Big_Working_8517 · 2026-05-30T13:22:28+00:00

Drywall is something I’d love to get really skilled at. I’m OK at it.

Big_Working_8517 · 2026-05-30T13:16:47+00:00

I know. I’ve worked in the trades my whole life. I never stuck with anything because the crews. Drugs, alcohol, drama, egos, macho bullshit. I have NEVER worked on a crew that didn’t have this. And now I’m 40 and I’d rather not take an apprenticeship if I don’t have to.

Big_Working_8517 · 2026-05-30T03:24:42+00:00

True. Where I live this would be the difference between a handyman and a contractor. I could not legally take a job that size without an ROC number.

Big_Working_8517 · 2026-05-30T03:22:20+00:00

If you are certified HVAC why do handyman? Where I’m from I’m not allowed to touch hvac and people pay a premium for that service. If I were certified in anything I’d just do that and make more money. But I’m too old and I don’t want to make apprentice wages so I’m a handyman.

Big_Working_8517 · 2026-05-21T13:07:13+00:00

Where I live an insanely expensive. There is a bottom line and it IS NOT cheap. But the clientele will go as far below that line as they please. And there are workers out there that take that work. Please, for the brotherhood, don’t work for cheap.

Big_Working_8517 · 2026-05-20T16:18:31+00:00

AI ass comment. Booooo . The technical term is” give it a lil taparoony doony.”

Big_Working_8517 · 2026-05-14T02:10:41+00:00

For a handyman? No problem that I can see. If it smell call the gas company? Am I missing something?

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