Builder and handyman in Liverpool

Big projects, small jobs, and everything in between.

Showers and bathrooms, tiling, damp proofing, painting, roofing jobs, fences and garden work, for homes across Liverpool. Call 07849 857405 and talk your job through.

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5.0 from 13 Google reviews

Fitted kitchen with white gloss units, teal metro tile splashback and a gas hob

From a customer

“Honest, reasonable prices and excellent work.”

SB, Google review

  • Showers fitted
  • Baths resealed
  • Bathroom upgrades
  • Tiling
  • Damp proofing
  • Exterior painting
  • Chimney repointing
  • Roofing jobs
  • Fences
  • Outdoor feature builds
  • Locks fitted
  • Skirting boards
  • Boot rooms and cupboards
  • Hedge trimming
  • Patio power washing

What we take on

From a full bathroom upgrade to a new lock on the front door. If it's on your list, it's worth a phone call.

07849 857405

Bathrooms and showers

New showers fitted, bathrooms upgraded and ensuites put in. Baths resealed, and mould under a shower cleared out and sealed off properly, so it stays gone.

  • New showers
  • Bathroom upgrades
  • Ensuite bathrooms
  • Resealing
  • Mould removal

Inside the house

Tiling, skirting boards in the awkward spaces nobody else wants to touch, and new locks on the front door. Room creation too, from a boot room to a built-in cupboard, plus indoor feature builds.

  • Tiling
  • Skirting boards
  • Door locks
  • Boot rooms
  • Cupboards
  • Feature builds

Outside the house

Exterior painting, full external wall damp proofing, chimney repointing and roofing jobs, right up to renovation work on the roof. Fences built with concrete foundations, and outdoor feature builds.

  • Exterior painting
  • Damp proofing
  • Chimney repointing
  • Roofing
  • Fences
  • Outdoor builds

Garden tidy-ups

Shrubs taken out, hedges trimmed, old gravel cleared away and patios power washed, so the outside looks as looked-after as the inside.

  • Shrub removal
  • Hedge trimming
  • Gravel removal
  • Power washing

The little jobs

The ones that sit on the list for months because they feel too small to ring anyone about. Ring us anyway. No job is too small to be worth doing properly.

  • Odd jobs
  • Repairs
  • Finishing touches
Finished shower room with a walk-in shower, glass screen and timber-effect wall panels

Doing it properly

We fix the reason it went wrong, not just the bit you can see.

When there's a problem underneath, like mould behind a shower, we would rather find it and sort it than cover it over and leave you to call someone again next year.

“He stayed well into the evening because instead of just doing the bare minimum, he addressed the source of a problem and set himself up for a lot more work, because he cared about doing it properly.”

“There was an underlying mould issue under the shower, and he spend hours painstakingly getting rid of all the mould, and then sealing it off.”

Fiji ACD, Google review

Recent work

Photos from our own jobs, inside and out. Bathrooms, brickwork, walls, paving and gardens.

Living room with an exposed red-brick feature wall, black-framed doorway and grey laminate floor
Exposed brick wall and new flooring
Brick-built outdoor oven with a cobbled base next to a timber storage cupboard
A brick-built outdoor oven and timber cupboard
New timber pergola going up in a garden with gravel and planted borders
A pergola going up in the garden
Bathroom with navy metro tiles, white wall tiles, a white basin and a curved bath
Bathroom, navy and white tiling
Rear of a terraced house with the brickwork painted white and new black downpipes
Exterior painting
Front garden wall with black railings and new paving outside a red-brick house
Front wall, railings and paving
Back garden with a new lawn, planted borders and an old sandstone wall
Garden, new lawn and borders

About Handy Squid

One trade or a few. One number to call.

Handy Squid Building Services is a Liverpool building and maintenance business based in Dingle. A squid has a lot of arms, and so does the job list: plenty of our customers come back to us year after year, a shower one season, the chimney the next, a fence after that.

That means you don't need a different trade for every corner of the house. Tell us what's on the list, big or small, and we'll talk it through with you before anything starts.

  • “reliable and trust worthy”G. Ninowis, Google review

  • “always communicates well with an enjoyably positive attitude”patrick wastnage, Google review

  • “All work has been quoted and completed to a high standard.”susan duffy, Google review

A new stud partition wall with a glazed pine door, part way through the job
Mid-job: a new partition wall and door going in

What our customers say

5.0 from 13 reviews on Google

  • “Dickie has done lots of work for us over the past few years – no job is too big or too small! He’s installed a new shower, resealed a bath, painted the exterior of the house, repointed the chimney and some other roofing jobs, added a new lock to the front door, installed a skirting board in a really awkward space, and built a new fence complete with concrete foundations. We’ve always been really happy with his work and happy to recommend him to others. Honest, reasonable prices and excellent work.”

    SB · Google review, April 2025

  • “I've used the squid's services for years now, new indoors/outdoors feature builds (loving my outdoor fireplace!), tiling, full external walls damp proofing and painting, countless little jobs... Nothing seems too big or too small for the man. Nice chap as well, reliable and trust worthy. Highly recommend.”

    G. Ninowis · Google review, January 2023

  • “Would absolutely recommend! Dickie was skilled, hardworking, respectful of my home, and his pricing very honest. He stayed well into the evening because instead of just doing the bare minimum, he addressed the source of a problem and set himself up for a lot more work, because he cared about doing it properly. There was an underlying mould issue under the shower, and he spend hours painstakingly getting rid of all the mould, and then sealing it off. Top man! cheers Squid the shower looks great! :D”

    Fiji ACD · Google review, October 2024

  • “I have had the pleasure of dealing with Dickie of Handy Squid for several years now doing a wide variety of both internal and external projects and have always been very pleased with the quality of his work. He is versatile and creative,reliable and trustworthy and always communicates well with an enjoyably positive attitude.I thoroughly recommend him!”

    patrick wastnage · Google review, October 2024

  • “We have had a range of projects completed over the last few years including room creation for a boot room, cupboard, ensuite bathrooms plus renovation work on the roof and an upgrade of two bathrooms. We have also had outside work completed including shrub removal and trimming of hedges plus removal of gravel and power washing of patios. All work has been quoted and completed to a high standard. I am happy to recommend, no job seems to be a problem.”

    susan duffy · Google review, January 2023

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Where we are

Based in Dingle, south Liverpool

We work in homes across Liverpool. Not sure whether you're in our patch? Give us a ring and ask, it only takes a minute.

Got a job that needs doing?

The quickest way is a phone call. If you'd rather write it down, send us a message and we'll get back to you.

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Handy Squid Building Services, Dingle, Liverpool L17

Tell us about the job

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