Los Angeles County, California
Small handyman jobs in Downtown Los Angeles
Handyman jobs in Downtown Los Angeles start with a question that isn’t what the job is. It’s what the wall is made of: brick, concrete, or metal studs behind ordinary-looking drywall, and the answer changes the anchor and the price. Tell us the building and the wall, and you get a price before anyone drills.
The price in writingAgreed before anything is scheduled
One visit, several jobsThe drive costs the same either way
No surprise when we arriveThe number holds unless the wall says otherwise
Across Los Angeles CountyFrom the Valley to the South Bay
What goes on the list
The jobs, and what they look like done
Most visits are several of these at once, and the drive costs the same either way.
Downtown is mostly lofts, apartments and condos, and the jobs are the indoor list: a TV on the wall, shelving and curtain rods, a patch before an inspection, flat-pack that arrived flat. If you’re on the eighth floor you have no gutters and no fence, and those belong to the building anyway.
Downtown jobs and what they run
Taken from our TV mounting, light fixture and assembly pages. A firm price for your list comes before anything is booked.
- TV into Historic Core brick$250–$450anchored into the brick and never the joint
- TV on a South Park tower partition$250–$450steel stud and the right toggle
- Cables hidden inside a framed walladd $100–$250where the wall has a cavity at all
- Chandelier or heavy pendant swapped$200–$400on a ceiling box that already exists
- Dresser, desk or TV console from flat-pack$120–$280per item, freight elevator permitting
Brick, concrete and steel stud
The converted buildings along Spring, Main and Broadway, in the Old Bank District and in the Arts District warehouses east of Alameda are brick and reinforced concrete. Brick carries a TV well with a hammer drill and a sleeve set into the brick itself. The newer towers have concrete structure with metal-stud partitions that look like ordinary drywall.
In a lot of lofts the ceiling is the underside of the structure, concrete or timber with the services run below it in the open. There may be no box anywhere near where you want a fan, and creating one is an electrician’s job, so check before you buy the fixture.
Building access and drilling rules
The job itself is often the easy part. The building may want notice, management approval and a freight elevator reservation, and some restrict drilling outright, especially into exposed brick. That changes the job without ending it: a freestanding TV stand, a floor-to-ceiling tension system or no-drill curtain hardware all exist, and we’ll tell you when the wall can’t take what you have in mind instead of drilling first.
Downtown work that needs another trade
One thing that pushes a Downtown job past the exemption faster than people expect is a fixture you’ve asked us to supply, because the price of the fixture counts toward the $1,000 as well as the labor. When that happens, the job needs a licensed contractor or the right licensed trade, and we’ll say so before anyone picks up a tool.
- A full media wall, new circuits, or a new box in a concrete ceiling.
- Opening up a partition, which usually needs a permit whatever it costs.
- Anything that touches the building’s structure or its fire-rated walls.
What a Downtown request should say
- Your building, or at least the part of Downtown: Historic Core, South Park, the Arts District, Little Tokyo or the Financial District.
- What the wall is, brick, concrete or drywall on metal studs, with a photo added to the form if you’re not sure.
- What the building needs before we’re let in: notice period, elevator booking, management sign-off.
Send us the list and the visit is priced before the elevator is booked.
Where we work
The rest of Los Angeles County
What the walls are made of changes street by street in this city, and it changes the job.
Send us the list
However long it is. You get a price for the visit before anything is booked.