512-290-5153

Handyman and Installation Services in Houston and Austin

We install across fourteen Houston-metro cities and fourteen more around Austin. Drywall, fence, flooring, painting and tile, plus seven specialty trades, all on a written scope.

  • Houston and Austin metros covered
  • Written scope before work starts
  • $500 project minimum

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Handyman Install at a Glance

  • Primary market: Houston, with fourteen metro cities covered.
  • Also serving: The Austin metro, fourteen cities, unchanged.
  • Core services: Drywall, fence, flooring, painting and tile installation.
  • Project minimum: $500. This is a project minimum for multi-item work.
  • Not accepted: Purely plumbing, electrical, roofing or foundation jobs.
  • Reach us: Call 512-290-5153 to scope a walkthrough.

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Straight Answers Before You Call

What areas does Handyman Install cover?

Fourteen Houston-metro cities across Harris, Fort Bend, Montgomery and Galveston counties, plus fourteen cities around Austin.

What is the minimum job size?

Projects start at $500, which is a minimum for multi-item work rather than a single-task service call.

What work is not accepted?

Plumbing, electrical, roofing and foundation jobs are subcontracted only inside a larger remodel, never taken on their own.

Core Services

Five Installation Services, Twenty-Eight Cities

These five run in every city we cover. Each city page is written to that city’s own ground conditions, so follow the link for your area rather than a generic quote.

Drywall Installation

Full wall and ceiling replacement, hung, taped and finished to Level 3, 4 or 5. No patch jobs.

$2-$6 / sq ftView Drywall

Fence Installation

New runs and full replacements in cedar or pressure-treated pine, posts set 24 inches into concrete.

$30-$50 / linear ftView Fence

Flooring Installation

LVP, laminate and hardwood over a tested, levelled slab with a moisture barrier underneath.

$4-$12 / sq ftView Flooring

Painting Services

Interior and exterior repaints with full prep, timed around Gulf humidity and surface temperature.

$3-$7 / sq ft of wallView Painting

Tile Installation

Floors, showers and backsplashes set over an uncoupling membrane so slab movement never reaches the grout.

$12-$22 / sq ftView Tile

Why This Metro Is Hard On Houses

What Keeps Breaking, and Why

The Ground Moves Under Most of This Metro

Smectitic clay sits under most of the Houston area, swelling when saturated and contracting through drought, which lifts and drops slab edges differentially across a single year. That movement is the common cause behind cracked grout, diagonal wall cracks at door corners, opened caulk joints and fence posts that stop holding plumb. It is also why the same five trades keep getting called to the same houses. Reading that movement before quoting is the difference between a repair that holds and one that reopens on the same line next season.

Every City Here Has Its Own Threat

The metro is not uniform, and treating it as one market produces work that fails locally. Katy sits inside the Addicks and Barker reservoir pools where water stands for days rather than draining. Kingwood takes a flood wave down the San Jacinto when Lake Conroe releases. League City sits around twenty feet of elevation with genuine storm-surge exposure. Sugar Land is subsiding ten to twenty-five millimetres a year, which compounds clay movement rather than simply adding to it. Each city page is written to its own ground.

One Scope, Written Before Anyone Starts

Most of the friction in this trade comes from scope that was never written down. We walk the work, put the scope in writing, and price it against published metro ranges rather than inventing a number on the spot. Projects start at $500, which is a minimum for multi-item work. Purely plumbing, electrical, roofing or foundation jobs are declined outright; they are subcontracted only when they sit inside a larger remodel we are already running.

2026 Pricing Reference

Houston Metro Installed Pricing

Metro-wide ranges. Where a job lands inside them is decided by substrate and scope. Project minimum is $500.

ServiceInstalled rangeWhat moves the number
Drywall installation$2-$6 per sq ftFull wall and ceiling replacement only; finish level and ceiling height
Fence installation$30-$50 per linear footCedar or pine, gate count, tear-out and rot board
Flooring installation$4-$12 per sq ftLVP through hardwood; slab flatness and moisture barrier
Interior painting$3-$7 per sq ft of paintable wallCeiling height, trim volume and texture matching
Tile installation$12-$22 per sq ftUncoupling membrane, pattern complexity and waterproofing scope

Service Area

Twenty-Eight Cities, Two Metros

Houston Metro: primary

Fourteen cities across Harris, Fort Bend, Montgomery and Galveston counties.

Austin Metro

Our original service area, still fully covered.

How We Work

What You Can Count On

Scope in writing, first

The walkthrough produces a written scope before any work is booked. You see what is included and what is not, rather than finding out mid-project.

Priced against published ranges

Every service is priced against metro ranges we publish on the page. Where a job sits in that range is explained by the substrate.

We say no to the wrong jobs

Patch-only drywall, repair-only fencing and standalone plumbing or electrical work are declined. Taking them would mean doing them badly.

Written for your city

Each city page is built on that city's own soil, flood history and housing stock, because a Katy reservoir lot and a Sugar Land subsidence lot need different work.

Questions

Frequently Asked Questions

Which Houston cities do you cover?

All fourteen in the metro set: Houston, Katy, Cypress, Richmond, Tomball, Spring, The Woodlands, Humble, Kingwood, Conroe, Pearland, League City, Missouri City and Sugar Land.

Yes. All fourteen Austin-metro cities remain covered, with the same services and the same phone number. Houston is simply the primary market now.

A project minimum for multi-item work. It covers mobilisation, material pickup and setup on a scoped visit.

No. Drywall scope is full wall and ceiling replacement. A single hole or doorknob ding is better handled by a patch-focused crew.

Only inside a larger remodel, as subcontracted work. A job that is purely plumbing or purely electrical is not accepted.

Houston permitting is trigger-based rather than value-based. Finish work such as tile, flooring, paint and trim is exempt; replacing plumbing or electrical fixtures is not.

The estimator on this page gives a figure immediately from your room dimensions. A walkthrough firms it up against the actual substrate before anything is scheduled.

The ranges are metro-wide. What changes city to city is scope, because local soil, flood history and housing stock decide how much prep a job needs.

Get Your Project Scoped

Call 512-290-5153 and we will walk the work, put the scope in writing and price it against published ranges. Houston and Austin, same number, same standard.