For business owners
Nobody leaves a review about a loose towel dispenser. They leave one about the restroom.
Non-licensed punch-list maintenance for restaurants, offices, shops and salons — scheduled around your hours, not ours.
The situation
Why this is harder than it should be
A commercial space does not have to be falling apart to send the wrong message. A wall scuffed through to the substrate, a crooked sign, a wobbly shelf, a door that has to be shouldered — customers register all of it without consciously noticing any of it, and it accumulates into an impression that is hard to argue with.
These items sit because they fall between two stools. Too small for a general contractor to be interested, too numerous for you to keep chasing while running a business. So they build up until an inspection or a bad review forces the issue.
We work exactly that band and nothing outside it. Commercial licensing boundaries are real, and in restaurants they include hood suppression and gas — where an unqualified hand creates a fire and life-safety risk rather than a scope disagreement.
- Too small for a GC, too many for youTwenty items that each take fifteen minutes is not a job any general contractor wants, and it is not something you have time to project-manage.
- The work has to happen when you're closedWhich rules out most contractors, who work when you do.
- Commercial construction isn't residentialSteel studs, suspended ceilings, masonry and rated assemblies all behave differently. Someone anchoring loaded shelving into a steel stud with a residential approach will have it come down.
- Some of your list is genuinely dangerous to get wrongHood suppression, gas, rated doors, life-safety systems. A contractor who takes those on because they were asked is a liability, not a bargain.
What you get
How we work with you
- Scheduled around your operationBefore open, after close, or on a dark day. Getting in and out clean matters more here than it does in a house.
- Every item dispositionedIn scope, or out with the licensed trade named. In restaurants a portion of the list usually belongs to somebody else and you will hear that clearly.
- Batched walk-throughs instead of call-outsA quarterly walk catching twenty small items costs a fraction of twenty individual visits, and it stops the accumulation before customers notice it.
- Multi-location coordinationSame list run across sites in one scheduled block if you operate more than one location.
- Insurance certificates before bookingSend your requirements with the list and we will confirm we meet them up front, not after you have put us on the calendar.
Situations
What this looks like in practice
Not a feature list — the actual shapes these jobs take.
Restroom refresh before a health inspection
Dispensers, grab bars, partitions, hooks, mirrors, door hardware, wall patching and touch-up. Off-hours, finished before open.
Front-of-house wear
Corner damage from chairs and carts, scuffed walls, loose trim, crooked signage, wobbly shelving. The details guests read as care or as neglect.
Opening a new location
Furniture assembly, shelving, display fixtures, signage mounting and the hundred small setup items between a finished buildout and being able to open the door.
Lease is ending
Make-good work to return the space to condition. Send the restoration clause with the list — it defines the standard.
Office reconfiguration
Workstations, conference furniture, filing systems and storage moved, built and set, out of hours so Monday works normally.
Kitchen hood suppression, fire suppression and gas systems. These are fire and life-safety equipment, and working around them without the right qualification can disable them silently — meaning nobody finds out until there is a fire. If an item on your list touches them, it goes to the specific licensed contractor for that system, and no amount of scheduling pressure changes that answer.
Services
What small business send us most
Light Commercial
Non-licensed punch-list maintenance for restaurants, offices, shops and small business spaces — the details customers notice and nobody has time for.
Punch Lists
Inspection repair addendums, pre-listing punch lists, builder walkthrough items and turnover lists worked through and closed out as one project.
Drywall Repair
Drywall patching that disappears — nail pops, anchor holes, door dings, water-damaged sections and texture matching that actually matches.
Doors & Hardware
Doors that stick, latches that miss, hinges that sag, locks that bind — diagnosed properly and adjusted rather than replaced by default.
Hanging & Shelving
Gallery walls, heavy mirrors, floating shelves and storage systems hung level, spaced properly and anchored into something that will actually hold.
Furniture Assembly
Flat-pack assembly, closet and garage systems, and full move-in setup — including the anti-tip anchoring almost everybody skips.
Pressure Washing
Driveways, walks, patios, decks, fences and siding cleaned at pressures the surface can survive — soft wash where pressure would do damage.
Junk Removal
Garage, shed, attic and whole-property cleanouts — sorted for donation and recycling where possible, hauled out, and the space left swept.
Questions
Small Business & Light Commercial — common questions
Can you work on a restaurant?
Can you work after hours?
Do you carry commercial insurance?
Can you make our space ADA compliant?
We have four locations. Can you cover all of them?
Can we set up a regular maintenance visit?
Also for
Other people who send us lists
Homeowners
For the list that has been growing for two years. Eleven unrelated small things, batched into one visit instead of a year of good intentions.
Realtors & Sellers
Inspection addendums translated line by line, pre-listing punch lists finished before the photos, and an honest read on what's not worth fixing.
Landlords & PMs
Turnovers run as one scheduled block against a real move-in date, with condition documented before anything gets repaired.
STR Hosts
Turnover damage caught before a guest photographs it, seasonal deep make-readies, and work that fits between bookings.
Where we work
Next step
Working with small business? Send the list and we'll tell you what's realistic.
Photos, notes, an inspection report, a screenshot of your notes app — whatever you have. We read every one and reply with a straight answer, including the parts we're not the right fit for.