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Price common electrical, plumbing, carpentry and painting jobs by billable hours, materials, visit charge, urgency and GST.
The Handyman Cost Estimator prices small home repairs the way a tradesperson bills them: hands-on hours at a trade hourly rate, a one-hour minimum on each job line, one visit charge per trip, materials at cost plus a handling markup, an urgency loading for same-day or out-of-hours work, and 18% GST on household repair and maintenance services. Reference rates run around ₹350 an hour for an electrician or plumber and ₹400 for a carpenter at tier-1 city levels. Use it before you call, so a quote can be checked line by line instead of accepted whole.
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Short jobs are billed at an hour each, and the tool shows exactly how much time that adds.
The estimate flags when a job list needs both a plumber and a carpenter, which usually means two visits.
Labour, urgency loading, visit charge, materials, handling and GST are itemised, not merged into one figure.
Roughly ₹300–400 an hour at tier-1 city rates — about ₹350 for an electrician or plumber and ₹400 for a carpenter — with metro rates around 20% higher and small towns roughly 28% lower. Almost every provider bills a minimum of one hour even for a ten-minute job.
Usually it is adjusted against the bill rather than refunded: most providers charge around ₹150–300 to come and look, then waive it if you go ahead with the work. Confirm the policy when booking, because the fee is normally kept in full if you decline the quote.
Buying them yourself saves the handling markup, typically 10–20% of material cost, but you carry the risk of buying the wrong part and paying for a second visit. For standard items like taps, switches and locks, buying yourself usually wins; for anything that needs a size or thread matched on site, it usually does not.
Yes, at 18% for household repair, installation and maintenance services when the provider is GST-registered. Many individual tradespeople fall below the registration threshold and bill without GST, which is a legitimate difference and not a discount to be argued for from a registered firm.
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