
How to Hire a Local Contractor: A Step-by-Step Guide
How to hire a local contractor step by step: describe the job, find and check contractors, compare quotes, agree the price in writing and pay safely.
Premium service is our standard.
Quality workmanship. Clear communication. Care for your home. Connect through a Taskovery introduction, a posted job or a direct call from a professional’s profile.
Up to 50% cheaper than franchise dealers
Prices and savings vary by service, location and contractor.
We expect every tasker to do work they’re proud of, communicate clearly and treat you and your home with respect. Our service standard

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In your own words. We ask who you are after you have said it, not before.

Trades we offer
You do not have to pick one. Describe the problem and we work out who it goes to.
Want the details first? See every service, with the license rules in your country and how pricing works.
How it works
One job. A few simple steps. Here’s how a dripping tap becomes a job done.
Add the details, your area and a time that suits. A photo helps explain the job.
We review your job. Interested local contractors reply. Compare profiles, chat and choose.
Agree the price and timing together. Get the work done, then share your experience.
Your job. Your choice.
One quality standard. Three ways to connect.
A connection that suits you
You choose how to connect. Explore their work and checks, talk through your needs, and agree the price before work begins.

Tell our team what you need. When we have a suitable partner for your job and area, we can make a direct introduction.
Ask for an introduction →Describe what needs doing. Read replies, compare profiles and choose the person who feels right for your job.
Post a job for free →Browse profiles in our app and choose Call to ring an available number directly through your phone’s dialler.
Find someone to call →No Taskovery customer fees. You choose the professional and pay them directly. Introductions depend on suitable partners and availability. Our web app is available now; iPhone and Android store releases are coming soon.
No middleman in your payment
Your contractor
$0 Taskovery customer fees
How payment works
Reviews
Every review here comes from someone who hired a contractor through Taskovery and saw the job through to Completed. Nobody else can post one.

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Nothing to download, nothing to wait for. Explore our upcoming iPhone and Android apps.
Ask for an introduction, post your job, or call a professional from their profile.
Post a job for freeJoin free, reply to posted jobs and take customer calls from your profile. Pay only when you’re hired, or go Pro.
Open Taskovery PartnerFor contractors
Exceptional work deserves the right connections. Join free, reply to posted jobs and take calls from your profile, and pay a small flat fee only when you’re hired. Or go Pro for no hire fees, direct introductions, personal partner support and a Featured partner badge.
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From the blog
Plain guides to finding, checking and hiring a contractor, and to what a fair job looks like.

How to hire a local contractor step by step: describe the job, find and check contractors, compare quotes, agree the price in writing and pay safely.

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How to vet a contractor online in fifteen minutes: read a profile in the right order, judge reviews and photos, spot bought signals, check licenses.
Questions
Exceptional work and exceptional customer service. We expect every tasker to explain the work clearly, agree a reasonable price before starting, keep you informed, respect your property and follow through on their commitments.
Contractors must pass their required identity and business or address checks before replying to your job. Before a partner shows our Featured partner badge, we also review their relevant experience, past work and customer service.
Look through the tasker’s actual work, customer reviews and current verification badges, then agree the scope and price together. Taskovery adds no customer fee. See what we check.
Describe what needs doing, add your location and choose when you need it done. Create your account, check the details and post for free.
Prefer another route? Ask our team for a suitable direct introduction, or browse profiles in our app and choose Call to ring an available number.
Verified before they can reply. Before a contractor can answer a job they pass a government photo ID check, plus a business registration check for a company or a proof of address check for a sole trader. Until those pass, they cannot reply to anyone.
We do not run criminal background checks, and we do not check insurance. A trade license is a separate, optional check with its own badge, so look for that badge when your job needs a licensed professional. Exactly what the tick covers.
Once you are in touch with them. Call shows you their number and hands it to your phone, so it is an ordinary call and they see yours. A contractor you message, or who answers a job you posted, can see it too, so they can ring you back. Nobody just browsing can.
Your street address is only shared once you’ve picked someone. Until then they see your city and roughly how far away you are.
Nothing. Browsing, posting, reading connections and messaging are all free. You pay your contractor for the work and nothing on top.
There are no optional extras either. No fee, no add-on, no service charge, no insurance product. The price your contractor quoted is the exact amount that leaves your account.
We’re paid by the contractor’s side, not by you. Those numbers are published too.
Your contractor invoices you directly. We are not in the payment, and nothing is added to the price you agreed.
Which also means we cannot reverse it. If the work is not right, take it up with them, and your consumer rights apply as they would on any job.
Some are, and they say so. Anyone who has bought a week of placement appears first in Best match and carries the word Promoted on the card. A contractor’s plan does not buy a position in customer search results. A Featured partner badge means the contractor is on our Pro plan and our team reviewed their experience, past work and customer care; it does not move them up the list.
Nothing else changes: same checks, same rating, same real reviews. And two sorts have no placement in them at all. Closest gives you the nearest, Top rated the best rated, with nobody able to pay their way up.
Six countries: the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Every contractor sets their own coverage area, so you only see people who genuinely come to your town.
Posting works anywhere in those countries, and keeps working as more contractors join.