What handyman work costs in St. George, Utah
I. Noah Guy Handyman Services quotes a total price for the whole job, and the estimate is free. You get one number for the work in front of you — not an hourly rate and a hope — and seniors and veterans take 5% off it.
Most trade sites in Washington County will not put a number on a page at all, which is not much help to somebody trying to work out whether to pick up the phone. Here is how the number gets arrived at.
Figures for Washington County, Utah, as of August 2026.
The estimate
Free
Joe looks at the job and gives you a total price for it. No charge, no obligation.
What you're quoted
One price
For the whole job — not a clock running while you watch. Overruns are his problem, not yours.
Materials
At cost
No markup, receipts provided. Or buy your own.
Seniors & veterans
5% off
Off the quoted total. Mention it when you ask, not after the invoice.
For the rare job that genuinely cannot be scoped in advance — chasing a fault, or a long list of small unrelated tasks — the rate is $150 an hour. Everything that can be quoted as a job is quoted as a job, and Utah's handyman licence covers work up to $7,000per job.
What changes the number
Two jobs that sound identical on the phone can be a day apart in practice. Four things account for most of the difference.
- Matching something that is already there
- Matching a 1990s hand-troweled texture or a discontinued trim profile means test boards before any finished work starts. This is the most common reason a small job is not a cheap job.
- How hard it is to get at
- Ladder work, protecting finished floors, or an occupied room that has to be put back every evening all take longer than the same work in an empty room.
- What you have already done
- If the wall is already open or the old flooring is already out, that is labour nobody has to charge for. It genuinely comes off the number.
- How many jobs are on the list
- One visit with four things on it costs less than four visits with one thing each — travel and setup get paid for once.
Pricing questions
Do you charge for a quote?
No. Looking at the job and giving you a total price for it is free. Diagnostic work — opening a wall or lifting flooring to find out what is actually wrong — is labour, and it gets agreed before it happens.
Why quote a total instead of just charging by the hour?
Because a total tells you what you are committing to. The rate behind it is $150 an hour, but if the job takes longer than expected that is the tradesman's problem rather than yours — which is the right way round, since he is the one who estimated it.
Can the price change once you start?
Not unless the job itself changes. The quoted total is the price, and if the work takes longer than expected that is on the person who estimated it. What does change the number is finding something nobody could see from the outside — rot behind a window, a floor that turns out to be badly out of level — and that gets a phone call and a decision before any extra work happens, never a surprise on the invoice.
What is included in the price?
The labour, the setup, the cleanup, and the small consumables — fasteners, caulk, compound, sandpaper. Materials are on top at cost with receipts, or you buy them yourself. Hauling the old material away is included unless it is a skip-sized amount, and if it is, that gets said in the quote rather than added afterwards.
Priced per job, whichever trade
Tell me what needs doing.
Describe the job and send a photo if you have one. The person who reads it is the person who will do the work.