We started with one person and a simple idea: move fast, keep people in the loop, and only hire people you'd trust in your own home. Two years on, that idea is a 24-strong team handling whole jobs across Melbourne, start to finish, with one point of contact.
JT Handyman Solutions started with Jabez Tobgui, a pair of hands and a frustration plenty of Melbourne property owners share: trades that are slow to respond, slow to quote, and quiet once the work begins. At 22, Jabez built the answer himself. In under two years he grew JT from one person to a team of 24, and he did it on two things he refuses to compromise on: speed and clear communication. Your quote shouldn't take days, weeks or months. You shouldn't have to wonder what's happening on your own job. What he won't budge on most is who joins the team. JT hires on character first, skill second, because as Jabez puts it, "a calling without character is a liability." Get the character right and the rest can be taught, which is exactly why JT runs a real career pathway: tools, to estimator, to supervisor, to operations manager. People grow here, and your job is better for it.
Behind every job are two halves of one team. In the office, Esther coordinates jobs and keeps tenants and owners informed, Sue runs the day-to-day as assistant office manager, and Beatrice looks after accounts, so the paperwork, updates and scheduling are handled. In the field, our multi-trade crews cover carpentry, painting, plastering, repairs and general maintenance, all completed in-house. One team, every trade, working to the same standard across Melbourne.
Every trade lives in-house, so you're never chasing a painter, a plasterer and a carpenter on three separate threads. One organised team manages the whole job from first inspection to before-and-after photos, and you deal with one point of contact the entire way through.
Slow is not in our name. Renovations take time, but your quote shouldn't. Prompt inspections and quick turnaround mean you often have an answer in hours, not the weeks of silence you've come to expect from trades. 2026 moves fast, and so do we.
You're kept in the loop the whole way. Our office emails your tenants, liaises with owners-corporation chairpersons, and documents every job with before-and-after photos for your records. No silence, no guessing where things are at.
We hire people we'd trust in our own homes, then we keep them and grow them. That care shows up in the work: jobs done properly, on time, to a high standard, and a team that treats your property like it matters. Because to us, it does.
