Base labour rate:

** Nelson restaurants: $75 hourly, minimum charge is $150, labour warranty is 3 months.

Slocan Valley: $60 hourly per worker. Rates for additional workers may vary. Minimum charge per visit is $100. 

Beyond Slocan Valley: $70 hourly per worker. (Nelson, beyond Crescent Valley and New Denver)  Rates for additional workers may vary. Minimum charge per visit is $140. 

Charging begins upon arrival and ends upon departure. You do not pay for lunch breaks nor morning and afternoon breaks.  

Plumbing drain servicing:

Slocan Valley, $100 hourly.

Nelson, beyond Crescent Valley and New Denver, $120 hourly. After-hours drain servicing, all regions:  $200 hourly. Includes Nelson restaurants.

After-Hours is considered times outside 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. with time being charged from leaving the shop to returning to shop.

Roof work:

All roof work requiring rope use, $125 hourly. Increased charge may be required in the event of detrimental conditions affecting safe conditions of equipment and safety of worker(s). 

Attics & Crawl Spaces:

Additional $20 to base labour rate.

Typical additional charges:

1) Selecting & Loading of tools & supplies and putting tools away upon return to shop, for each field of work hired for. This is done with the intention of minimizing charges of driving time to suppliers or Handyworks’ Slocan workshop. 

2) Prep time: modelling, planning ahead, internet researching, over the phone or in-person research due to unavailability of blueprints, manuals, instructions or materials supplied by manufacturer.

After-Hours:

$120 hourly for the Slocan Valley. Minimum charge is $135.
$140 hourly beyond Crescent Valley & New  Denver. Minimum charge is $250. 

$150 hourly for Nelson restaurants. Minimum charge is $250.

After-Hours is considered times outside 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Time is charged from leaving the shop to returning to shop as well as time selecting tools and supplies and putting said items away upon the return.

Travel time:

A) No charge for travel or truck to and from client work site
B) Exceptions to A) will be made in writing or verbally prior to travel
C) Travel time is charged out when, within a job’s clock-in and out time, travel is required from a client’s work site to i.e. a store/ supplier/ HH’s workshop and back. The base labour hourly rate is charged.

D) Outside of clock-in and clock-out times, travel time is charged for travel to a store or HH workshop which is to the exclusive benefit of a client’s project. The base labour hourly rate is charged.

Truck & trailer charges

– No truck charge unless verbalized beforehand
– No trailer charge unless verbalized beforehand

– Trailer use: $30 /day

– Truck use: $40 minimum per 1 one-way valley run i.e. delivery, pick up, dump run. Truck use fee is in addition to base labour rate while truck is in use. This fee includes travel from client work site and return back to client work site.