Gqeberha and Port Elizabeth
The sticking door. The cupboard that hangs crooked. The TV that never got mounted. The shelf still in its box. Small repairs and installations across Gqeberha, worked through properly in a single booked slot, for one agreed price.
Sample photoHow it is priced
Fixed price per job
Agreed before work starts. No hourly rate and no meter running.
How pricing worksEvery job is quoted as a job, in writing, before anything starts. You approve the number while you can still say no, and materials are approved separately.
One trip, one setup, one invoice. Each job is priced on its own, and booking six jobs together spreads the travel across all of them.
Work that legally needs a registered plumber or electrician is referred to one. You get told at the start, not halfway through with the water off.
Dust swept, packaging stacked, tools gone. The part most people have been burned on before is the part that gets the most attention.
Every job is quoted as a job, with the price agreed before work starts rather than run up on a meter. Send the whole list at once and you get a price for each item on it, which is also why a long list prices better than the same jobs booked one at a time.
01 / Waterproofing
Sealing the joints the water gets through, before it reaches your ceiling.
02 / Roofing
A leak found where it gets in, not where the stain shows.
03 / Wall mounting
Straight, level, and fixed into something that will hold it.
04 / Doors
Sticking, sagging, swinging open, or refusing to lock.
05 / Cupboards
Doors that hang, hinges that gave up, drawers that jump the rail.
06 / Fixing to walls
The jobs that need a level line and the right fixing.
07 / Assembly
Flat pack out of the box and standing square.
08 / Small plumbing
The drips and the wobbles, not the geyser.
09 / Paint
Patches, marks, scuffs and trims, not the whole house.
10 / The list
The list on your fridge door. Bring all of it.
11 / Landlords and agents
Punch lists worked through before the tenant walks in.
Something not on the list? Send it anyway. Most odd jobs fit.
Market figures, not a Craig's Handyman price list. Labour only. Materials and fittings are quoted separately and approved by you before anything is bought. The useful lesson in them is about batching: one visit covering six jobs prices far better than six separate visits, because the travelling and the setting up happen once instead of six times.
Prices shown here are typical South African market figures for this kind of work, not Craig's own numbers, and are not yet confirmed by him. To be locked in before launch.
WhatsApp the jobs, with photos of anything unusual. Five items or twenty five, it does not matter. A photo of a problem is worth more than a paragraph describing it.
You get an honest answer on which jobs fit and how long the visit should take, plus a price. If something on the list needs a specialist trade, you hear that up front rather than on the day.
The whole list gets worked through in a single slot, in a sensible order. Materials are approved before they are bought, and the number on the invoice is the number you agreed to.
Sample photoCraig does the work himself, which means the person who quotes the job is the person standing in your kitchen doing it.
The important part is what does not get done. Anything that legally needs a registered plumber or electrician gets referred to one. It is a smaller invoice for that visit and the honest answer, and it is the difference between a handyman and someone who will have a go at anything.
A rental turnaround has a date that does not move. Send the inspection report or your own list, get a price for the visit, and get an itemised account of what was completed and what needs a specialist.
Most metro complexes now require contractors to sign a POPIA compliant access register at the gate, and some restrict noisy work to set hours. Send the unit number and the gate procedure with the booking and the visit does not stall at the boom.
Completed items are listed against the invoice so it can be checked off against the inspection report without a phone call.
What a turnaround covers
Salt air does not forgive lazy work. Coastal homes here deal with corrosion on gate hardware, rusted hinges and paint that lifts. Coastal repairs get stainless or galvanised fixings by default.
SummerstrandHumewoodMill ParkWalmerWalmer HeightsLovemore HeightsSchoenmakerskopSardinia Bay
Older housing stock, so the work is mostly tired fittings rather than new damage. Sticking doors, worn hinges and old cupboard catches are the everyday job here.
Newton ParkCharloMount CroixSt George's ParkCentralNorth EndSidwellSydenhamKensingtonAdcockvale
Family homes and the bulk of the rental stock. This is where punch lists, landlord turnarounds and move-in repairs concentrate.
LorraineSherwoodFramesbySunridge ParkKabega ParkWesteringCotswoldPari ParkRowallan ParkMalabarAlgoa ParkFairviewGreenbushes
Further out, so visits get planned rather than squeezed in. Book a proper list and it is worth the drive for both of us.
Bluewater BayAmsterdamhoekSeaviewBeachviewChelsea
The jobs that fall between trades. Doors that stick, cupboard doors that hang, TV brackets, curtain rails and shelves, flat pack furniture, dripping taps, silicone that has gone black, and small paint touch-ups. Plus roof leaks and waterproofing on tiled roofs. Anything that legally needs a registered plumber or electrician gets referred to one instead.
On a tiled roof, yes. The leak gets traced to where the water actually enters, then the cause gets fixed: a cracked or slipped tile replaced, ridge capping rebedded, a valley cleared and resealed, a flashing closed up again. Flat roofs, concrete slab roofs, parapets, balconies, re-roofing and anything above single storey need a roofing contractor instead, and you get told that rather than quoted for it. Roof work is quoted per roof, once it has been looked at.
Every job is quoted as a job rather than by the hour, and you get the price before any work starts. The pricing page carries typical 2026 market ranges for the common jobs, clearly labelled as market figures rather than Craig's own prices, so you have something to judge a quote against. The quote itself is the number that counts.
There is no hourly rate and no minimum-hours charge to work around, which was the whole point of pricing per job. A twenty minute job gets a price for a twenty minute job instead of two hours you did not use, and a long list gets quoted job by job so you can drop items without renegotiating the rest.
Small maintenance on existing fittings, yes. Anything that forms part of the fixed water installation, including pipework and geysers, must be done by a qualified plumber, and fixed electrical work needs a registered electrician. Those jobs get referred out rather than bodged, and you get told straight away.
Send the job, or the whole list, on WhatsApp with photos of anything unusual. Most jobs can be priced from a photo. Anything that needs eyes on it before it can be priced honestly gets looked at first, and the written quote follows. Nothing is booked and nothing starts until you approve the number.
The whole city, from Summerstrand and Walmer through to Newton Park, Lorraine, Framesby, Westering, Algoa Park and out to Bluewater Bay. Send the suburb when you book and you will get a straight answer on travel.
Yes, all standard hand tools and a cordless drill with the bits for masonry, timber and tile. Materials and fittings are quoted separately and approved before anything is bought, so you are never handed a bill for parts you did not agree to.
Work stops and you get told. Every trade has jobs that only reveal themselves once something is open or off the wall. The rule is simple: no surprise on the invoice. The quote changes only if you approve the change.
One or twenty jobs, it makes no difference. The more you put on the list, the better the visit works out.
