Your local handyman, wherever local is.
Seventeen years in the trade. Carpentry, repairs, and the dozen small things on your list, done properly by a tradesman who happens to be parked up in your town this month.
2026
NZ
Catch us before we move on.
We work each town for a month or two at a time. The schedule below is updated as new dates are confirmed, usually a few weeks before we roll in.
Got a town we should visit? Drop us a line. Bookings open in each region the moment we announce dates, and the calendar fills quickly.
Upcoming stops
A proper tradesman's skill set, packed into one van.
Most handymen do a bit of everything. So do we, but with seventeen years on the tools behind every job we take on.
General repairs
Doors, locks, hinges, leaking taps, dripping showerheads, things-that-rattle, things-that-don't-shut. Your home's small problems, fixed.
Carpentry & assembly
Flat-pack furniture, decking touch-ups, shelving, fencing repairs, TV mounting on studs, picture hanging that actually stays up.
Working at height
Single-storey work as standard, taller jobs sized up before we quote. Gutters, exterior touch-ups, and the jobs you'd rather not be on the ladder for.
The job list
The list of small jobs that's been sitting on the fridge for six months. Half-day or full-day bookings. Knock the lot out in one visit.
Seeing New Zealand the long way round.
We're Ross & Jesse, and we're seeing New Zealand the long way round.
Ross is a Heating Engineer to trade. He spent most of his life in Glasgow, then picked up the travel bug while progressing his career through a handful of towns across England. Seventeen years in the industry, eight of those running operations for teams of engineers, and somewhere along the way the idea of doing it all from a campervan in New Zealand started looking like a reasonable plan.
Jesse is a vet, working locum contracts up and down the country. Her work opens the door to a different town every month or two, which suits both of us perfectly. We move together, settle in for a stretch, and Lizards Handyman Services rolls in when we do.
Before, after, and the bit in between.
Real jobs from real homes. Gallery filling up as the tour rolls on.
Photos coming as the jobs roll in. Check back soon.
The journal.
What 17 years of fixing things teaches you about houses
From Glasgow tenements to New Zealand bungalows - the patterns you start to see after long enough on tools, and what they mean for your home.
Read more →Five things on your house that fail before you notice
Gutter brackets, deck fixings, door seals, smoke alarm batteries, and the bit of trim around your windows. Catch them early, save the trouble.
Read more →How much does a handyman cost in New Zealand?
What you should expect to pay in 2026, why hourly rates vary so widely, and how to tell whether a quote is fair before the work starts.
Read more →Why your deck boards keep popping up
If you're hammering down the same deck nail for the third time this year, you're fixing the symptom, not the problem. Here's what's happening and the screw trick that actually works.
Read more →Do you know where your water, gas, and power shut off?
Most homeowners don't find out where their shutoffs are until something goes wrong. Here's how to find all three before that day comes.
Read more →Why we take the small jobs
Most handyman companies have a minimum spend that rules out anything under a couple of hours. We don't. Here's why that's a deliberate choice, not a gap in the business model.
Read more →Tell us the job. We'll tell you when we're nearby.
Drop us a quick note about the work, and the town. We'll come back with a date, a quote, or both.
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(local to wherever we're parked)