Real projects

Four jobs, documented start to finish

What the job actually involved, how long it took, and what that particular project cost. Every photograph on these pages is from the job it sits on — nothing here is stock, and nothing is staged.

Blue repainted house, front elevation and garage, by Handy Brothers LLC

Exterior painting

Full exterior repaint

Whole exterior washed, prepared and finished in two full coats — siding, trim, doors and garage.

  • ≈ 1,750 sq ft
  • ≈ 4 days
  • ≈ $5,500 incl. materials
Finished back yard in gravel with a paver border, by Handy Brothers LLC

Landscape

Backyard transformation

Worn lawn taken out, the ground stripped and levelled, pavers reset and the whole yard finished in gravel.

  • ≈ 3 days
  • ≈ $8,500 incl. materials
Black 8 ft privacy fence running the boundary of a wooded yard, by Handy Brothers LLC

Fence installation

170 linear ft of 8 ft privacy fence

Built from scratch on site — line set out, posts in, boards up and a wire top detail the whole way round.

  • ≈ 170 linear ft
  • ≈ 8 ft high
  • ≈ 5 days
  • ≈ $11,500 incl. materials
Newly laid plank flooring running to a sliding door, by Handy Brothers LLC

Flooring installation

3,000 sq ft flooring installation

Both storeys of a house, room to room, in three days — including every threshold, vent and door casing cut.

  • ≈ 3,000 sq ft
  • Two storeys
  • ≈ 3 days
  • ≈ $3,250 labor only

The figures shown are the record of each completed job, not a price list. What a project costs depends on its scope, its materials, the access, and the condition of what is already there.

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