A Reliable and Flexible Handyman 

   

I would like to emphasize a more personal approach to home improvements. Without a reference from a friend, an interested client will have no idea what I can offer them. I think in most cases, the jobs I get are because the new client trusted my ability based on the word of their friend. Almost every job I get is a referral from a previous client. I would like people to use this as a guide to the way I work. I would like to explain, via this web site, my abilities and dedication that their friends were not able to put into words.

In school, all of my courses were geared to building construction. I took a bunch of courses I had no interest in, just so I could build the furniture test piece for that year. Coffee tables, end tables, foot stools, whatever. It was something my father did at a master craftsman’s level and some of that must have rubbed off on me.  Somewhere in a dusty old drawer, I have an award for completing more than the required number of credits.
 
With that, I decided banking was the life for me. I spent a while at CIBC where my mother was a well-liked and respected financial officer.
 
In October of 1986 I bought my house and the RENOVATOR in me jumped into action. I was a postal worker then and when I wasn’t playing golf after work I was doing work for my mail customers. There are not many houses in the Northshore Blvd. area that I haven’t painted or fixed in some way or another.

I plunged into renovations full time when I quit the post office to move to Cleveland to be with my wife and build our home there. Before long I realized my services were needed more back home.

Upon returning, I worked for both of the major home improvement retailers. For two long years I watched the retailers, builders and renovators prove what I think most of us already know. They really don’t care about you. They care about how much you intend to spend. I have seen retailers convince buyers they needed something they didn’t too many times. I’ve watched builders persuade their clients to do ridiculous things in order to drain more money from them.
 
The worst is going into a home after another builder has been in. The work that the builders pass as ‘good enough’ amazes me, and they get repeat work!  I promised myself I would work extra hard to be the opposite of what customers have settled for in the past. I will provide not only quality and satisfaction, but character and integrity as well.

Clients have lost control of projects they pay for and have to settle for what the contractor gives them in the end. In my opinion, the homeowner is the General Contractor and I work for and answer to them. I am dedicated to giving my clients exactly what they ask for or are dreaming of.

Mike Bearder

 

Mike Bearder
Phone (905)522-1867
Cell  (905)923-1867
Hamilton, Ontario

Owner/Operator