No games, no surprise fees, no "we'll have to send someone out to talk about it." Here's exactly what Bob charges and exactly how a job goes.
A door that won't latch, rotted trim, a leaky window, drywall patch, hardware swap, the stuff that's been on the list too long. Bob comes out and looks at everything before he prices it — no guessing off a description.
A deck, a bathroom, a room remodel, anything running more than a day. These need eyes on them. Bob comes out, looks it over, and gives you a written price for the whole job — no charge to come look, anywhere in his service area.
Not sure which one you've got? Call or text him — he'll tell you.
Covers getting to you, getting set up, and the first hour of work.
Straight hourly, billed in half-hour steps. Materials at cost on top.
A full 8-hour day on site. The same 8 hours billed hourly would run $605 — past 8 hours, it goes back to $65/hr.
There's no trip fee on top of this. The $150 minimum only shows up when the job is small — if the work adds up to more than $150, that's simply what you pay. No surprises, no separate charge for showing up.
Got more than one thing? Tell Bob the whole list. Bundling several jobs into one visit almost always costs you less than calling him out three separate times — and he's happy to knock out a whole list in one trip.
Materials are billed at cost. Bob doesn't mark up parts. If he picks up $40 of lumber, you pay $40.
People compare Bob's hourly to what they'd pay a guy for an hour of labor. It isn't the same thing. Everything below is already in the number:
The one exception: a full tear-out that fills a truck bed — a whole deck, a gutted bathroom — is its own line item. He'll tell you that up front, not after.
Because a "twenty-minute fix" is never twenty minutes for Bob. It's the drive out, the drive back, unloading tools, setting up, cleaning up, packing up, and hauling off what came out — usually the better part of two hours of his day for one stop.
The minimum is what makes it possible for him to say yes to small work at all instead of quietly not returning the call. That's the honest reason, and it's why bundling is always the better deal for you.
Anything that's going to run more than a day — a deck, a bathroom, a room, a whole list of work at once — isn't an hourly job. It's a project, and it deserves a real number before anyone starts.
On site, in person, at a time that works for you — anywhere in his service area.
Free for project work. No charge, no obligation, no pressure.For the whole job — labor and materials — not an hourly guess that grows.
You know the number before he starts.Take it, think about it, or don't. The estimate is yours either way.
No one's going to call you three times.If he opens a wall and finds a problem nobody could see, he stops and talks to you first.
The price doesn't move without a conversation.Call or text and describe the problem in plain language — you don't need to know what the part is called.
On site, in person, before he gives you a number.
That's how he prices it right the first time.A day and a window. If he's running late, he calls — he's not going to leave you sitting there wondering.
And cleans up after himself.
The number from the visit, unless the job turned out to be something different — and if it did, you heard about it before it happened, not after.
Bob's a one-man operation, and he'd rather see it than guess at it. A price given without looking is a price that can change once he's actually there — and nobody wants that conversation.
Coming out to look is part of the visit, not an extra trip. That's what makes the number he gives you one you can count on.
Electrical panel work, HVAC, plumbing that requires a licensed plumber, and roofing. He's not going to take your money for something that needs a licensed trade.
If that's what you need, tell him anyway — after this many years around Louisville, he usually knows someone worth calling.
Fastest way to get started is to call or text Bob directly.
(502) 416-5170