Tight budgets and time constraints have forced businesses and commercial buildings to outsource many of their requirements. Outsourcing cleaning, repair, maintenance and odd jobs around the workplace is a financially sound decision compared to investing in full-time technicians. But the question is, what are commercial handyman services and what benefits do they bring to businesses?
In this article, we will answer this question, talk about the included duties of commercial handyman services and discuss its benefits for businesses.
What is Commercial Handyman Service?
Handyman services are commercial services offered by cleaning contractors and support service companies for businesses who are looking for odd jobs, repair and maintenance in their workplace that require certain technical skills.
Commercial handyman services receive their client’s requirements and send the right person to do the job. Therefore, businesses don’t need to invest time in selecting the right person for the job. They just call their commercial cleaning contractor or business support service and ask for help.
Many businesses benefit from hiring commercial handyman services when they need technical help or when something requires repair and maintenance. The most important advantages of handyman services are discussed below.
#1 Saves Money & Time
The most important benefit of handyman services is saving money and time. Businesses can reduce their costs by hiring the right person for repair and maintenance. This way, they will end up with professional and reliable service that reduces future maintenance and replacement costs.
Also, commercial handyman services save you time. When you call your cleaning company and discuss the problem, they will send the right technician to take care of it. Therefore, you don’t need to spend time finding a repair service and researching to ensure it is the right one.
Handyman services are part of services offered by commercial cleaning companies. They have a full range of services that cover every requirement you may have in your workplace. This not only covers office or retail store cleaning but also covers general and professional repairs and maintenance.
#3 No Need for Vetting Technicians
Finding the right technicians for the right job is a difficult task, especially when you don’t know where and what to look for. If you decide to find a handyman yourself for repairing and maintenance of a kitchen appliance, then you have to make sure you end up with a professional person.
This involves gaining surface knowledge about the trade first and then starting vetting and interviewing different people for the job. It’s not only difficult but also time-consuming. Therefore, the best course of action is to ask your cleaning company or hire handyman services so they can send you the right person right away.
#4 Reliability & Efficiency
Handyman services for the commercial sector are more reliable and efficient compared to reaching for individual technicians or investing in a full-time handyman team in-house. Commercial handyman contractors send their best people for the job who are dedicated to diagnosing the issue, finding the solution, and repairing and maintaining appliances or equipment in the workplace.
On the contrary, common handyman services might not be trained for repairing and maintaining certain equipment and may end up just replacing the malfunctioning part or the whole appliance instead of attempting to repair it first. Therefore, it will incur high costs for the businesses. Even if they repair it, the job might not be thorough enough and might not be guaranteed.
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You or your employees should never attempt to do general and professional repairs. It is a health and safety hazard because repairs and maintenance require skilled professionals. Dangers include electrocution, injuries, damaging the appliance and many other hazards that may risk you or your employee’s life.
Repairs and maintenance are the duties of professional handyman services. They know how to handle power lines, plumbing systems, electrical wiring and other odd jobs. Hire a professional handyman and prevent employee injuries that will hold the business liable if something goes wrong.
What is Included in Handyman Services?
Handyman service covers a wide range of technical jobs from general repairs and maintenance to full retrofitting projects and professional appliance repairs. Here’s a list of the highly demanded services included in most handyman services. If you choose the right commercial cleaning company, you can rest assured they can send the right technical for your requirements in the workplace.
Fixture Installation
Fixture installation includes installing frames, signs, light fixtures, chandeliers or any other installation that requires technical skills, power tools, ladder and personal protection gears. It also includes securing furniture like filing cabinets and shelves to the walls to comply with earthquake injury prevention regulations.
Furniture Assembly
Offices and retail stores may purchase new furniture, desks, chairs and shelves that require assembly. Handyman services cover all your assemblies so you will end up with firmly structured furniture and no extra bits and screws that you assumed were extra!
General Repair & Maintenance
General repairs include repairing and maintaining kitchen appliances like refrigerators, coffee machines, microwaves and other electrical appliances found in offices, retail stores or schools.
HVAC Maintenance
Many commercial spaces use HVAC systems that require maintenance and occasional repairs. Such tasks are above general repairs so they should be handled by professional handyman technicians. HVAC maintenance involves cleaning filters, changing air filters, cleaning air vents and ducts, reprogramming the HVAC system and maintaining mechanical and electrical parts in the indoor and outdoor units.
Plumbing includes fixing pipes, leaks, taps and valves. It also includes maintaining boilers, central heating systems and radiators in offices, retails, schools and other commercial spaces.
Painting
When offices, retail stores or schools decide to brighten up their places and give a new look by painting the walls, commercial handyman services can help them out. You can rely on handyman services for painting walls, ceilings, handrails or large objects in or outside your workplace.
Dealing with high-voltage wires and power lines is a sensitive and dangerous job and requires skilled electricians. Commercial handyman services can send professional electricians to fix your wiring, electrical fixtures, lighting, plugs, sockets and other electrical requirements you may have at your workplace.
Shop Fitting & Renovation
Handyman services also include the full range of tasks and jobs related to shop fitting, retrofitting and renovation projects for offices or other commercial buildings. This includes designing, building, carpentry, decoration, lighting, painting and other related tasks. You can rely on commercial handyman services for full renovation projects as well. All you have to do is talk about your requirements so they can prepare a plan that meets them.
Other Odd Jobs
There might be other odd jobs that are specific to your workplace or retail store. If the tasks require a certain level of expertise and technical skills, then you can contact your commercial cleaning or support service contractor and discuss it. They will provide consultation on how to approach and meet your requirements and also will send the right person for the job.
Who Needs Commercial Handyman Services?
The answer to this question is easy. Almost all businesses in private and public sectors require handyman services. If time and money are important for your business, you have to outsource your repairs and maintenance to handyman services.
Here’s a list of businesses and establishments that can benefit from commercial handyman services:
In this article, first, we explained what commercial handyman services are. Then, we talked about the benefits of commercial handyman services to businesses like offices, retail stores and similar establishments. Towards the end, we discussed the full range of services that handyman service contractors provide to business sectors and what type of businesses require handyman services in their workplace.
The information in this article can help you justify the need for handyman services for your office and why you should contact commercial handyman services instead of hiring technicians for certain repair and maintenance jobs yourself.
Mehdi
Mehdi is the marketing manager and strategist at MN Support Services Ltd. He has over 8 years of experience empowering businesses by optimising their strategies and shifting their focus towards customers' underlying pain points and needs. He joined MN Support Services in 2023 and has been managing the marketing department ever since.
