I want to start a service that deliver hourly handy man, but I don't know the legal way to do it?

[uchymata]

I know a lot of great construction workers that are unemployed , and I have been thinking of a way to help this guys and myself, by finding small jobs were the home owner or client will pay me the hours the handy man worked, I will take my percentage and then I will pay the worker.
My question is: Is there a way to do this making the handy man responsible of everything and not me, all I will do is find the job, get pay and pay my guys.

[sara3]

i DO HOPE YOU'RE NOT GOING TO ADVERTISE WHILE THE BOSS IS AROUND!

sorry, caps *blushes*

[Androcles]

I'm not sure you have a sound business model there. If you want to be a successful business not a bunch of Cowboys like on Rogue Traders, you will need to be able to demonstrate that you are qualified, reliable and insured. You will need to have the guys contracted to you or what is to stop them letting you find work for them and then walking off with your best customers? How will you guarantee the customer they will turn up and do a good job? How will you fund advertising, insurance etc and doing CRB checks for example as they may well end up doing jobs for elderly or vulnerable people? etc etc....

I think you had better think this through very thoroughly!

[hc4361]

If you are the point of contact with the client, you will ultimately be responsible for no shows, shoddy workmanship, negligence, theft and everything else a workman is capable doing to the householder. The list is endless.
There will be no direct contract between the client and the handy man, so the buck stops with you.

[wolf63]

There is a local company that offers this type of work - nothing technical just DIY type stuff. However all their staff is CRB checked and as a single female this is important to me.

I have dealt with them - taking stuff to dump and changing light bulbs and plumbing in washing machines etc

They have another plumbing/heating type business which is a long standing business and they added the handyman business on at a later date.

I once employed a guy to build flat-pack furniture and he did the job but was a tad creepy.

[joggerjayne]

I won't address the issue of "quality of work" ...

I'm sure you've got that all covered.

Your essential business model is an "agency"

You effect the introductions, but the contract for works is created between the client and the worker (but through you).

You could do well, if you can establish a name as a "one stop shop" for that sort of workman.

Have you seen trustatrader.com ? ... it's quite a good model for your kind of idea.

Just one thing ... your business model might effectively be an employment agency ... in which case you'd need to get a licence ... not difficult, but an administrative consideration.

Good luck, if you do it.

JJ x