A free matching service, a straight explanation, and no surprises — here is the whole arrangement in plain words.
Horry County Handyman is a free local connection service. It is not a franchise, not a national call center reselling your phone number to five bidders, and not a crew pretending to be in your neighborhood. You describe a job by phone or through the form; we match it with an independent local pro whose skills and schedule fit; the pro contacts you, looks at the work, and quotes it free. From there the relationship is yours and theirs — scope, price, schedule, and payment all settle directly between you and the pro who does the work. The matching costs you nothing at any point.
Because they are real, and because services that ignore them are quietly transferring risk to you. South Carolina splits residential work into three tiers: jobs totaling five hundred dollars or less sit in a small-work zone the state leaves to independent handypersons; specialty-trade work above that line — carpentry, drywall, painting, and their kin — belongs to contractors registered with the state's Residential Builders Commission; and plumbing, electrical, and HVAC are separately licensed residential trades wherever a job goes past the fixture level. Matching honestly means routing each job to the tier the law assigns it, and saying so in the quote. That is the standard here, on every page and every referral.
First contact takes two minutes — the job, the town, the timing. Matching usually happens the same day; busy season can add a beat, and rural corners of the county occasionally wait a day for the right fit. The pro's quote is free and carries no obligation; if the price or the plan does not suit, you owe nothing and may say so without ceremony. If a job turns out bigger than it looked — the drip that is really a valve, the crack that is really the foundation talking — the honest answer arrives before the work does, along with a referral pointed at the right registered or licensed contractor. No project gets stretched past what its tier allows.
Call (843) 890-4149 or use the quote form any day of the week. Beach or river, tower or single-wide, one repair or a season's list — the process is the same and the quote is always free.
Straight answers cost nothing here. Describe the job; the quote is free.
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