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San Francisco Handyman Co. (415) 555-0147

Handyman in San Francisco, CA

A careful San Francisco handyman for hills, flats and hundred-year-old houses.

Fog, old Victorians and freight-elevator bookings make every San Francisco job a little different. As your San Francisco handyman, we handle the whole list in one visit, with one honest quote up front.

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The San Francisco Way of Doing Business

Built for Old City Houses

Plaster and lath, balloon framing, doors that have settled a half inch since the Coolidge years, and walls that have to ride out the next quake. We work with San Francisco's housing stock instead of against it — anchoring into studs that are actually there, matching old trim and texture, and securing heavy things the way earthquake country demands.

Clear Quotes Before We Start

You get a price before any tool comes out of the bag. No padded hours, no surprise add-ons once we're inside. If a job turns out simpler than we expected, the number comes down with it.

The Whole List, One Visit

Parking in this city is half the battle, so we'd rather come once and stay. Hand us the sticking pocket door, the loose stair rail, the running toilet and the shelves you bought in March, and we'll work down the list in a single organized trip instead of making you schedule four different trades.

We Know City Logistics

Elevator reservations, HOA and building-manager sign-offs, certificate-of-insurance requests, quiet hours in shared walls, tenants in the unit below — we've done it all before. We plan around your building's rules so the job goes smoothly for you and your neighbors.

Handyman Service Across San Francisco, CA

San Francisco is a city of about 800,000 people on the tip of a peninsula, bounded by the Pacific, the Golden Gate and the Bay, and almost every square block of it is built out. The housing runs from Victorian and Edwardian flats in the Haight, Hayes Valley, the Mission and Noe Valley, to the 1930s and 1940s stucco rowhouses of the Sunset and the Richmond, to the Marina's Mediterranean-style homes on 1915 exposition fill, to newer condo towers in SoMa, Rincon Hill and Mission Bay. In a single week we might repair cracked plaster in a Pacific Heights flat, rehang a door in an Excelsior bungalow and mount a TV on a steel-stud wall in a Mission Bay high-rise.

The city's texture shows up in the work. Fog rolls in through the Golden Gate and over the western hills most summer afternoons, keeping the Sunset and Richmond cool and damp while the Mission and Potrero Hill stay sunny. Winter storms come off the Pacific between November and March. The hills mean stairs, garages tucked under living space and lots where a single street drops two stories, and the long ridge of Twin Peaks splits the weather in half. Golden Gate Park, the Presidio, Dolores Park, Lands End and McLaren Park give the neighborhoods their breathing room, and Muni and BART tie everything together.

What San Francisco neighbors book most

Jobs we handle a lot in San Francisco

A typical San Francisco week brings plaster cracks and nail pops opened up by the last little quake, doors and windows that stick in the wet months, TVs and shelving anchored into plaster or steel studs, bookcases and dressers strapped for earthquakes, ceiling fans and light fixtures installed and wired, dimmers and smart switches put in, running toilets and dripping faucets fixed or replaced outright, fog-softened window trim and fence boards, and make-ready lists for landlords between tenants. We also see a steady stream of furniture assembly for apartments where every inch counts and condo punch lists before a sale.

Questions we hear around San Francisco

Do you cover every San Francisco neighborhood?

Yes — the west side from the Outer Richmond and Sea Cliff through the Inner and Outer Sunset and Parkside, the central neighborhoods from the Castro, Noe Valley and Glen Park to the Haight and Cole Valley, the north side from the Marina and Cow Hollow to Russian Hill and North Beach, and the southeast from the Mission and Bernal Heights to the Excelsior, Portola, Bayview and Visitacion Valley. If it has a San Francisco address, we work there.

I live in a condo — can you work with my building's rules?

Yes, and it's a normal part of the job here. Tell us your building's requirements — certificate of insurance, elevator reservation, approved work hours, loading-dock access — and we'll arrange them ahead of time. We protect hallways and elevator pads, keep noise inside the allowed hours and leave common areas the way we found them.

Do you handle rental turnovers for San Francisco landlords?

Yes. Between-tenant make-ready work is common for us: patching and painting, rekeying hardware, fixing doors and cabinet fronts, replacing worn fixtures and clearing tenant-reported repairs. We can coordinate access with tenants on notice, send photos when we're done and keep an owner who lives elsewhere informed.

How We Help Around Your Place

One crew for the whole list — pick a single job or hand us all of it, and bundling a few keeps the visit affordable.

Drywall Repair

Drywall and plaster repair in San Francisco, CA — quake cracks, nail pops, holes and water stains blended to…

Drywall Repair in San Francisco →

TV Mounting

TV mounting in San Francisco, CA — secure mounts in plaster, steel studs and concrete, quake-minded hardware…

TV Mounting in San Francisco →

Furniture Assembly

Furniture assembly in San Francisco, CA — beds, wardrobes, desks and shelving built, leveled and anchored for…

Furniture Assembly in San Francisco →

Door Repair & Adjustment

Door repair in San Francisco, CA — sticking, sagging and fog-swollen doors, pocket doors, latches and…

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Ceiling Fan Installation

Ceiling fan installation in San Francisco, CA — new fans and boxes, swaps, wall controls, plaster and high…

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Light Fixture Installation

Light fixture installation in San Francisco, CA — pendants, chandeliers, sconces, dimmers and new light spots…

Light Fixture Installation in San Francisco →

Faucet & Toilet Repair

Faucet and toilet repair in San Francisco, CA — drips, running toilets, new faucets, toilets, disposals and…

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Fence & Gate Repair

Fence and gate repair in San Francisco, CA — rotted boards, leaning posts, sagging side gates and rusted…

Fence & Gate Repair in San Francisco →

Gutter Cleaning & Repair

Gutter cleaning and repair in San Francisco, CA — clogged gutters, leaky seams and downspouts cleared before…

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Pressure Washing

Pressure washing in San Francisco, CA — slick front stairs, sidewalks, decks, patios and stucco cleaned with…

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Interior Painting & Touch-Ups

Interior painting in San Francisco, CA — walls, trim and touch-ups in Victorians, rowhouses, rentals and…

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Garage Storage & Shelving

Garage storage and shelving in San Francisco, CA — wall shelving, overhead racks and quake-secured storage for…

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Smart Home Installation

Smart home installation in San Francisco, CA — smart locks, video doorbells, thermostats, cameras and alarms…

Smart Home Installation in San Francisco →

Seasonal Home Maintenance

Seasonal home maintenance in San Francisco, CA — rainy-season prep, fog upkeep, earthquake readiness and whole…

Seasonal Home Maintenance in San Francisco →

From Your List to Done

Tell us what's nagging you

Call, text a photo, or send the form. A sentence and a snapshot is plenty — we'll ask if we need more.

Say yes to a clear price

You'll see the number before we load the trailer. Approve it, pick a time, and that's the whole negotiation.

Enjoy a shorter list

We arrive when we said, do the work carefully, tidy up, and walk you through it before we wave goodbye.

Areas We Roll Through

We're based in San Francisco and cover every neighborhood in the city plus the towns around it, roughly a 20-mile reach. That runs from the Marina and the Excelsior down the Peninsula to Daly City, South San Francisco and San Bruno, and across the Bay Bridge to Oakland.

Got a list? Let's shorten it.

One quick call or text gets you a real price and a real arrival time — usually within the week.

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