Almost every house we walk into has the same thing going on. There is a list somewhere, on the fridge or in somebody's phone, and it has been there long enough that people have stopped seeing it.
None of the items are hard. That is the whole problem.
Why the list never gets shorter
A ceiling fan swap is maybe forty minutes. A door that will not latch is usually twenty. Re-caulking a tub is an hour if you do it properly and let it cure.
Individually, none of that is worth a contractor's trip. So you call somebody, they ask what the job is, you list four small things, and they either quote you a number that makes no sense or they never call back. Do that twice and you stop calling.
Meanwhile the list grows, because a house generates small failures continuously. That is just what houses do.
What actually goes on these lists
Here is what we see most often around Clarksville, roughly in order:
Doors. Sticking, dragging, not latching, or swinging open on their own. Houses settle, hinges loosen, and strike plates end up a quarter inch off. This is one of the most common calls we get and one of the fastest to fix.
Things that need hanging. TVs, floating shelves, mirrors, curtain rods, art, towel bars, grab bars. Most of these fail because they were anchored into drywall instead of a stud, and the fix involves patching the first attempt before doing it right.
Ceiling fans and light fixtures. Straight swaps of an existing fixture.
Caulk and weatherstripping. Tub and shower surrounds, kitchen backsplashes, exterior door sweeps, window trim. Caulk has a service life and people are always surprised by that.
Drywall damage. Doorknob holes, the spot where a TV mount came out, cracks over a doorway. Almost always from something else on this same list.
Cabinet hardware. Drawer slides that have given out, doors that no longer sit flush, pulls that were never quite level.
Trim and baseboard. Gaps that have opened up, corners that got kicked, quarter round that came loose when the flooring was done.
Assembly. Furniture, playsets, shelving units, grills.
Batch it, do not drip it
The single best thing you can do is write down everything at once and send it as one list.
Two reasons. First, the trip is the expensive part of a small job, not the labor, so four items in one visit costs a lot less than four visits. Second, we can plan the visit properly. If we know a door needs planing and a wall needs patching, we bring the plane and the mud, and nobody has to leave to go get something.
Send it however you want. A typed list, a photo of the handwritten one on the fridge, a string of pictures with captions. Photos help more than descriptions do, especially for anything damaged.
Say what "done" means
The one thing worth being explicit about is what finished looks like to you.
A patched wall can mean the hole is closed and primed, or it can mean the wall is patched, textured to match, and painted corner to corner so you cannot tell. Those are different amounts of work. Neither is wrong. But if you assume one and we quote the other, somebody is disappointed at the end.
Same with a door. Do you want it to latch, or do you want it to latch and stop scraping the frame and get the hinge screws replaced so it stops dropping again in six months?
Just tell us. We would rather hear it up front.
What we will tell you no on
There is work we do not take, and we say so before we start rather than after.
Tennessee requires a state Contractor License for jobs of $25,000 and up. We do not hold one, so we do not bid at that scale. Electrical and plumbing require their own separate Tennessee trade licenses at any job value, and anything that falls under those goes to somebody who holds the right license.
If one item on your list crosses that line, we tell you which one and why. Then we do the rest of the list that day. You are not stuck waiting on the whole thing because of one item.
The short version
The list is not too small. It is exactly the right size. Write it all down, send it over with a few photos, tell us what "done" looks like, and we will knock it out in one trip with a 60-day warranty on the work.
Call us at (931) 320-9818 or send the list through the form.