Twelve years, one rule.
Handy started in 2014 with two vans, a rented lock-up on Spintex Road and a promise that sounded almost too small to build a firm on.
2014
Two vans and a rule
Kwesi Nyarko and Kojo Mensah start out of a rented lock-up in Tema with one rule between them: turn up when you say you will. Six months of word-of-mouth work in Sakumono and Spintex follows.
2016
The workshop
A proper joinery workshop opens on Spintex Road. It is the decision that changes the firm — building carcasses on a bench rather than on a customer's floor is faster, quieter and very much better.
2018
Licensed and certified
The electrical side is brought in-house rather than subcontracted, and every board we touch starts leaving with a certificate. It costs more per job and it ends most of the arguments.
2020
The year of the deep clean
Cleaning goes from a courtesy at the end of a refurbishment to a trade of its own, with its own crews and its own kit. Half the buildings we still look after came to us through it.
2022
Rounds, not callouts
The first maintenance plans. Fixing things while they are still small turns out to cost every party less, and it gives the crews a diary they can actually plan a life around.
2026
Eleven crews, seven trades
Forty-six buildings on a scheduled round, over twelve hundred jobs a year, and the same rule as 2014 — which is the only thing on this page nobody has ever proposed changing.
Twelve years
Where that leaves us
12
Years on the tools
11
Crews on the road
46
Buildings on a round
1200
+
Jobs last year
Still the same rule
Everything else about this firm has changed since the lock-up on Spintex Road — the number of vans, the trades, the workshop, the fact that there is now a board on a wall with forty-six buildings on it. The rule has not. If we say we will be there on Tuesday between nine and eleven, we are there on Tuesday between nine and eleven.
It sounds like a small thing to build a business on. Twelve years of people ringing back suggests otherwise.
Kwesi Nyarko & Kojo Mensah, founders
Testimonials
Testimonials
What people say afterwards
Unedited, and collected after the invoice rather than before it.
“They quoted the rewire, did the rewire, and charged what they quoted. After four contractors in three years that felt like a novelty rather than the minimum.”
Daniel Danquah
Homeowner, Airport Residential
Asked often
About the firm
Which trades do you actually cover?
Electrical, plumbing and drainage, carpentry and joinery, painting and decorating, roofing and waterproofing, grounds and gardens, and deep cleaning. Everything is done by our own directly employed crews — if a job needs something we do not do, we will say so and tell you who does.
What happens if something goes wrong afterwards?
Our workmanship carries twelve months, and roofing carries five years. If something we did fails inside that, we come back and put it right at no charge — no argument about whether it was the fitting or the fitter. Manufacturer warranties on parts run alongside that, and we register them for you.
Are you insured, and can I see it?
Public liability to GHS 2 million and employer's liability for every crew member. Ask and the certificate is emailed the same day — landlords, estate managers and body corporates usually want it on file before work starts, and it is much easier to send before than to find after.
Ready when you are
One number for the whole building
Tell us what needs doing. We will come and look, quote it in writing, and give you a date we can actually keep.
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