{"id":70,"date":"2026-09-10T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/strathby-home-services\/before-you-hire-a-handyman\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T09:00:00","slug":"before-you-hire-a-handyman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/strathby-home-services\/before-you-hire-a-handyman\/","title":{"rendered":"Before You Hire a Handyman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A good tradie makes a job feel easy; a bad one costs you money, time and weekends. Five minutes of checking before you book can save you all three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Check licence and insurance<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Tasmania, plumbing and electrical work needs a licensed tradesperson. Ask for the licence number and proof of cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Get the quote in writing<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A proper quote lists the work, the materials and the price, with GST shown. Vague quotes tend to grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Look at recent jobs and reviews<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photos of finished jobs and reviews from people in your suburb tell you more than any ad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Notice how they keep in touch<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A tradie who replies quickly and turns up when they said they would usually works the same way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What to check before you book a tradie for your next job around the house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-advice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/strathby-home-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/strathby-home-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/strathby-home-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/strathby-home-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/strathby-home-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/strathby-home-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/strathby-home-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/strathby-home-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/strathby-home-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.iamavi.com\/portfolio\/strathby-home-services\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}