Mounting & hanging
TVs and soundbars, floating shelves, heavy mirrors and artwork, curtain rods, blinds, closet systems. Anchored into studs, level, and wires tucked out of sight.
Sarasota and Manatee County Handymen
Your whole list,
done in one visit.
Duct Tape Duo takes care of the small repairs that keep sliding to next weekend. We give you a quote up front, text you when we're on the way, and vacuum before we leave.
- Flat quote before we start
- Text confirmation the day before
- Bundle your list into one visit
- We haul away the debris
What we do
Annoying jobs,
too small for a specialist
If it takes a specialist, a permit, or a license, we'll say so and point you to someone good. Everything below is our lane.
Furniture & assembly
Flat-pack from IKEA, Wayfair, Amazon — beds, desks, bookcases, dressers, patio sets, grills. We break down the boxes and take the cardboard with us.
Drywall & touch-up paint
Holes from anchors and doorknobs, hairline cracks, popped nails, water stains. Textured, primed, and painted back so you can't find the spot afterward.
Doors, locks & hardware
Doors that stick, sag, or won't latch. New deadbolts, handles, hinges, weatherstripping, door sweeps. Cabinet doors realigned and drawer slides replaced.
Fixture swaps
Like-for-like changeouts: faucets, shower heads, toilet seats and fill valves, cabinet knobs, towel bars, light fixtures and ceiling fans. Anything beyond a straight swap goes to a licensed trade.
Outside & seasonal
Pressure washing driveways, walkways, patios and pool cages. Gutter clean-outs, re-caulking, loose deck and fence boards, hose bibs, storm-shutter hardware.
Snowbird & rental checks
Walk the house before you fly back, or between guests. We photograph what we find, fix what's small, and tell you plainly what isn't.
The whole honey-do list
Four, six, nine things at once? That's our favorite call. One visit, one price, one invoice — and a better rate than booking each job separately.
Staying in the house you love
Small improvements that make your home work for another twenty years
Most of what keeps someone safe at home isn't a renovation. It's a bar in the right place, a light that comes on by itself, and a handle you can work with a full grocery bag in your arm. We do these all week, and we're patient about it.
- Grab bars anchored into blocking or studs — bath, shower, and beside the toilet
- Handheld shower heads and adjustable slide bars
- Lever door handles and rocker light switches instead of knobs and toggles
- Brighter, warmer bulbs and motion-sensor lights in halls, closets and garages
- Non-slip treads on tile, thresholds shaved down, loose rugs secured
- Raised toilet seats, shower chairs, and bed rails installed properly
- Doorbell cameras and smart locks set up on your phone, then shown to you twice
Recent work
Real jobs, real rooms
Every photo below is our own work, shot on a phone as we went. Nothing staged, nothing borrowed from a stock library.
Ceiling restoration
Old Florida ceilings blister and flake — humidity gets under decades of paint and lifts it off in sheets. Painting over it just buys a few months. The only fix that lasts is to take it back to a sound surface.
We scrape every loose edge, sand the whole plane flat, feather the transitions so the repair does not telegraph through, prime, and paint. Furniture covered, floors papered, and the dust vacuumed as we go.
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Before Paint lifting across the whole ceiling
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During Scraped back and sanded flat
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After Primed, painted, room put back together
What failing ceilings look like
Left alone, flaking does not stay flaking. The one on the left had opened right through to the substrate. Damage that spreads out from a vent, a corner or a window usually means moisture found a way in, so we look for the source before we touch the surface — a repair over an active leak is money thrown away.
The same job, living room
A whole ceiling this time, with a fan and an air vent to work around and furniture that had to be covered rather than moved out. Same process, more square footage.
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Before Flaking spreading out across the room
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Before Lifted right down to the old finish underneath
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After Scraped, sanded and painted
Drywall and corner repair
Damaged corners are the single most common thing we get called about. Cut back to sound material, new bead, three coats, sanded flush, then textured and painted so the repair disappears into the wall.
New wall and door
The laundry area and the bonus room were one open space. We framed a stud wall with a proper door opening to divide them, hung and cased the door, ran trim, and finished it so it reads as part of the original house rather than an addition.
While the wall was open we sealed the exterior side with spray foam and weatherstripped the doors — a real difference on the power bill in a Florida summer.
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Framing Stud wall and door opening going in
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Framing The wall that turned one open space into two rooms
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Finished Boarded, trimmed and painted
Bonus Room, and the rest of it
Beyond the wall: the whole room painted, the old brown deck boards primed twice and finished white, vinyl plank flooring laid over the slab, a TV mounted, and a wall A/C unit set and sealed in.
- Room painted throughout
- Deck boards primed twice and painted white
- Vinyl plank flooring laid
- Exterior wall sealed with spray foam; doors weatherstripped
- TV mounted, wall A/C unit set
Bedroom refresh
Ceiling scraped, sanded, patched and painted. Walls painted, curtains hung, TV and the gallery wall mounted, and the carpet steam cleaned. The dresser came out of the master and was refinished in white before it moved in here.
- Ceiling scraped, sanded, patched, painted
- Walls painted
- Curtain rods and curtains hung
- TV and gallery wall mounted
- Carpet steam cleaned
Master bedroom
Ceiling and walls scraped, sanded, primed and painted, curtains and a mirror hung, and the carpet steam cleaned with a hot water extractor.
Living room and entrance
Ceiling scraped, sanded, patched and repainted. Walls painted, curtains hung, TV mounted and the carpet steam cleaned.
- Ceiling scraped, sanded, patched, painted
- Walls painted
- Curtains hung
- TV mounted
- Carpet steam cleaned
Kitchen
Ceiling and walls painted, and a pull-out trash can mounted inside a base cabinet. The pull cord on the light over the sink had been torn clean out, so we opened the fixture up, rebuilt the switch assembly inside it and fitted a new pull chain.
Furniture refinishing
Same dresser, second life. Cheaper than replacing it, better built than most of what you would replace it with, and it moved to a different room where it now earns its keep as a TV stand.
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Before Dark stained, dated, wrong for the room
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After Sanded, refinished white, hardware cleaned up
How it works
Four steps, no mystery
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Send your list
Call, text, or fill out the form. Photos help — snap whatever's bugging you.
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Get a flat quote
Usually the same day. If something needs a licensed trade or a permit, we tell you then, not after we've started.
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We confirm, then show up
A text the day before, and another when we're on the way. If we're running late, you'll hear it from us first.
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We finish and clean up
Drop cloths down, dust vacuumed, boxes and old parts hauled off. Pay by card, check, Zelle or cash when you're happy.
The duo
You'll know exactly who's coming to the door
Same two faces every time. No rotating crew, no subcontractor you've never met.
Jeremiah Smith
Jeremiah came to Sarasota in 2020 by way of Puyallup, Washington and twenty years around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Before this he spent years inspecting houses for a living, then working in them — repipes, renovation, and a run of rental properties he owned and rehabbed himself. The upside for you: he tends to spot the thing behind the thing before it turns into a real bill.
Ryan Lynch
Ryan moved down from Austin in 2024. Before Florida he taught high school for four years and built two software companies, which is a long way of saying he is very hard to lose track of. He's the one who answers, sends the reminder, and remembers that your gate code changed. Eagle Scout, so "leave it better than you found it" isn't a marketing line for him.
Where we work: Sarasota, Siesta Key, Gulf Gate, Palmer Ranch, Lakewood Ranch, Osprey, Nokomis, Venice, Longboat Key, Bradenton and Palmetto. Outside that? Ask — we'll tell you honestly whether the drive makes sense.
Get in touch
Tell us what's on the list
Send it over and we'll come back with a flat price. No pressure, no obligation, no upsell to something you didn't ask for.
- Call or text
- (941) 941-9484
- Hours
- Monday–Saturday, 7:30am–6:00pm
- Based in
- Sarasota, Florida
Request a quote
We answer every message. Usually within a couple of hours.