The Story Behind Memphis Handyman Pros

Memphis sits high on the Chickasaw Bluff above the Mississippi River, with the Wolf River and Nonconnah Creek cutting across town and a lot of the city spread over silty, clay-rich ground that swells when it's wet and shrinks during dry spells. The climate is humid subtropical: long hot summers, roughly fifty-plus inches of rain a year, a spring storm season that can bring damaging winds and tornado warnings, and winters that are mostly mild until an ice storm or a deep freeze shows up. The housing covers more than a century — Victorian homes near downtown, early-1900s bungalows, foursquares and Tudors through Midtown, postwar brick ranches across East Memphis, Whitehaven, Raleigh and Frayser, and newer subdivisions in Cordova, Bartlett and Germantown.

That mix of old houses, big trees and hard weather makes for a long maintenance list, and the small items are the hardest to get anyone to handle. A general contractor isn't coming out for a door that rubs or a toilet that runs all night. Landlords need a rental turned around between tenants. Longtime owners want a list of a dozen small jobs done by one dependable person instead of four separate trades. In a city where a lot of houses are past their fiftieth birthday, that list never really gets shorter on its own.

That's the work we're set up for. We're locally based, we carry general liability insurance, and we'd rather earn your next call than pad this one. We quote before we start, bring what the job needs, and leave the place clean. Fans, light fixtures, dimmers, video doorbells, thermostats, faucets, toilets and disposals are all part of the same list, and our licensed electricians and plumbers make the wiring and plumbing connections, so one call covers the whole house instead of a different company for every trade.

Our promises, plainly put

• The price you approve is the price you pay
• General liability insurance on every visit
• A real arrival time, not a half-day window
• Boots wiped, dust cleaned, trash hauled off
• Straight talk when a job belongs with a licensed trade
• Rooted here in Memphis and the towns next door