OK, so you sound like my target customer! I had thought of charging
£30 for the first hour (minimum charge) & £20-25 per hour afterwards.
Also though of a half day rate and a day rate.

Would that be in your budget?

It would depend - how long to decorate a room; for me 3 weeks and never
finished. One reoom I had altered about 5 years ago and it's still
plaster!
But I'm beginning to look at my bank balance, life expectancy, only
indirect relations waiting to pounce and wonder what a lifelong skinflint
tendency has got me.

My main problem is fear; of making a mistake, getting screwed, getting a
crap job, but I'm so aware of the deficiencies in my own work it sneers
at me for ever after! The fact my plumbing and wiring could be tidier
doesn't matter, I know it's sound.

For folks like me, word of mouth is the killer app; I look at ads in
papers, shop windows etc, and think "I dunno, might be another gyppo". I
hear about someone's handyman, and think "great, wonder if he'd come
here".

If you can get past that, I think you've got it made, so to get a
customer base, you need a customer base. But I'm sure it snowballs if you
can get it going.

You don't live near me, do you? ;-)

I don't know where you live! I'm in north east Kent.

North of Basildon...pah

Anyhow, if you proceed with it and put a crafty ad here, I'll give you a
bell - good luck

mike