HandEPig Services

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We all want the same thing when it comes to our project or projects, regardless of size. Quality work, timely and trustworthy people doing the work, and the certainty that while there our best interests and safety will be priority one.

This site is as fancy as this Pig gets, but I am hopefully viewed as the best of all the above when it comes to doing work for you, your family, or your business. My references are encouraged to speak openly and honestly about the quality of my work, my diligence, and my trustworthiness.

If you hire me you will also be supporting a USAF disabled Vet. Neither alone or together are justifications to choose me over another, but the Air Force helped me understand several values desperately missing in today’s world, and I’ve overcome my disabilities to continue to meet the challenges before me. I will apply these values to your work and our relationship.

I am also openly Conservative, and a traditional Christian man, not without flaw, but working on improving daily.

If any of these values are offensive, please feel free to move onto the next candidate who does not espouse the same.

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About Me

I am an almost 3 year resident of Live Oak, and while I spent most of my adult years in the Mountain States of Utah, Colorado, and Montana, I hail from Panama City FL. I am a husband of almost 40 years (June of 2024), a father of three successful children, all serving or served in the USAF. I am a Christian man, not perfect but always striving to improve. I am also Pro-America, pro-Constitution, seriously conservative, pro-2nd Amendment (shall not be infringed), and believe the irrefutable science that there are two definitive sexes (male and female). If any of these traits go against your beliefs, I fought for your right to be wrong. If my positions are offensive, PLEASE pass my offerings by like road kill, and feel free to give me the finger as you drive by.

Having served in the USAF in the late 70’s into the 80’s, I am a man of military bearing, discipline, and the ability to work with people of all walks of life. I am a Pig of all trades, from my education and career as an engineer, to a private pilot, skydiver, pro-comp softball player, literally every thing computers (from software dev, databases, to systems design, network switching, fiber plants, redundant power from multiple grids, data center design and implementation), Ham Radio Technician license, 41 years in the martial arts, welder, woodworker, surveyor, certified project manager, CDL-A with all endorsements, and while I’m careful not to step on the professionals holding state license’s as plumbers and electricians, I have performed many of their functions. I’m also an IVT FDA Validation professional for parts 11 and 802 (GMP), and an IVES certified special lift certified trainer. 

Possessing a unique sense of humor developed largely from strife, I tend to be of the sardonic and satirical all based around my conservative world view, although not without a little Sam Kinison, Eddy Murphy, and Bill Burr mixed in. While I’m certain I don’t align with them as people, I love/d their timing, their candor, and how they all admit the irony and temperamental nature of people. Most of my humor is delivered deadpan, and my wife jokes about my jokes, telling friends and family not to take me serious when I’m joking.

What services do I offer?

Excellent question, and I’m way late in explaining exactly that.

First, it is important to note that Florida is justifiably restrictive on the amount of work they allow people to do without applicable state issued licenses. Working on Electrical, plumbing and gas issues at either a residence and or a business can have disastrous consequences if done improperly. You don’t want a person who has not displayed years of practice, or passed the rigors of testing and licensure required of surgeon, the freedom to operate on you because they watched a bunch of Youtube videos, and are certain they can help. As such I have licensed with the state as a handyman, and will perform the legal associated tasks as allowed by the state.

Along those same lines, but no less important constraints, the following is a list of functions the state allowed unlicensed Handymen/women to perform:

Patch Cracks & Holes in Existing Concrete
Caulking
Painting
Tile cleaning and repair
Exterior and Interior Cleaning (yard debris, junk, scraps from licensed remolding and construction activities)
Yard Maintenance
Pressure Cleaning
Cleaning Gutters
Laying carpet, vinyl, wood, tile or laminate flooring
Replace interior doors & trim
Electrical Allowed:
Replace light bulbs with like type and wattage
Replace fuses of same size only
Plumbing Allowed:
Repair window A/C units
Replace disposable air filters
Replace exhaust vent piping for clothes dryer only

Additionally, I find no restrictions in the state code that bars me from being an advisor/consultant, to folks who want to pursue their own electrical and plumbing repairs (a lawful act in the state of Florida). With my extensive experience, not only on our homes over the years, with a complete build (acting as a general once prior to help a neighbor, performing electrical and plumbing in Utah), I am not only experienced, but will only give advice in compliance with applicable Florida codes and statutes. All of my work has passed the rigors of state inspectors, both in Utah and in Florida (installing my own sub panels, pulling my subterranean wire in conduit, to installing our Generac 22.5k Generator. All with proper permits and following the state code.

Having troubles getting your home WiFi set up, look no further. Need a new computer, need a computer repaired or restored? Or your like me and want to get rid of Windows without going to the Walled Garden of the Apple ecosphere? I’m able to get you onto a FREE Linux operating system that functions as close to Windows as possible without violating copy-write or trademark infringement.

Finding no restrictions on welding, I am able to perform new build and structural repairs on existing metal projects that are not attached to a residential or commercial structure.

Equipment I have at my disposal: A large John Deere Zero Turn mower, a Kioti tractor with a bucket and forks attachment. A Hobart Mig Welder, a small suit case stick welder, and a Hypertherm Powermax 65 Plasma cutter. The suit case stick welder is portable for small jobs, but the others require 240v power and an air compressor, so those jobs would have to come home with me. I have a Stihl 500i Fuel Injected Chainsaw (the only one made) for making woodsy and overgrowth adjustments.

Shortly I will have a dual axle trailer for moving both of the implements, and their attachments (mid to late Feb 24). I have all manner of power management testing and service electrical equipment, meters, and more. All of my powered hand tools are new Dewalt branded, I treat my gear with TLC so that it lasts years.

In short I have a wide range of experiences, I’m not afraid of getting dirty, willing to consider most jobs, or function as a consultant and assist as lawfully allowed. My goals are to provide quality, timely and affordable services. I stay on a job until it’s done, or return daily until the job is complete. My pay schedule will be set prior to doing any work, with an estimate of time to completion. I won’t interrupt your job with another, because that is bad business, and devalues my commitment to you. I’m retired and doing this for something to keep myself busy, as well as throw a few more dollars into the vacation bank.

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Services​

Project consulting, project management, home repairs and expansions, unattached decks, generators, welding, computers, and I’ll use the line employers often abuse, “all other jobs and tasks as required.”

Project Management

I am PMP trained, and well tested through on the job experience. In my corporate life I never took on a project that was not completed on time, on or under budget, and brought on the required and skilled resources for the projects end goal realization. After several successful local projects, I was elevated to a global project manager with mirrored successes.

Installation & Repair (Home and Business)​

I would suggest this is the strength of my offerings. With a bit of luck I will not be perceived as the contractor who is attempting to make your job the one that buys them a new 1 Ton truck. I want my prices to be fair to both parties, and I look at jobs through my lens of what I believe would be fair, and a price that I would comfortably pay.

Happy Customers​

Local people that you might know, for whom I’ve complete projects.

“Pig was a huge help in providing me an extra set of hands, adivce, and direction for my complete shower remodel. This included removing our fiberglass shower/tub insert, he took us down to the studs, building a proper shower tub, over doing it the whole way to insure it was built with proper slope, waterproof, this allowed me to do a floor to ceiling tile job.” “This is the second project he has been a critical set of hands and advice, while I erected my 10’x12′ stick built greenhouse, with power.​”
“He is able to think on his feet, adjust on the fly to desired changes, and has a vision for what the job will look like, before, during and after.”

JT Hingson

Live Oak, FL

“Pig was very helpful to me in my recent conduit, wiring, and large main service panel install. From helping to set one run of 3” conduit over 230′, to a branch to our home at 100′, he helped with guidance in me pulling the wire, wiring the house sub panel, and setting the main panel for 400v service to branch out from there. He helped off load a burden that was weighing me down, and spent two days with me doing as I needed to get the job done.”​

Bill Bertrand

Lee, FL

If we come to acceptable terms, I will work your job, and only your job until complete. If you only need me to help plan, or draw out a project, I’ll be there until we’re both satisfied, or one of us decides we might not be a good fit. Yes, sometimes the reality of a situation reveals uncomfortable truths about incompatibilities, and the best display of discretion is to part ways.​

I’d rather suffer the pains and indignities of parting ways, hopefully on friendly terms, over the option of upsetting each other down the road if we start off knowing we are incompatible.