Highwood, IL
Handyman in Highwood, IL — Monthly Subscription From $184
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No credit card · No contract · ZIP 60040 · locally owned
The cost
Stop paying a handyman $300–$500 every time something breaks in your Highwood home
Highwood homeowners spend $3,600–$6,000 a year on reactive repairs — each one its own search, its own wait, its own $300–$500 bill. A Home Harmony subscription is $184 per month.
But the cost comparison isn't really the point. What changes is that you stop scrambling. Same technician. A maintenance plan that actually carries over. When something breaks, you're not starting from zero.
Here's what that cycle costs across 12 months.
Home Harmony
One sump pump replacement runs $200–$400. Book two in a year and the subscription's covered itself.
Why us
Why Highwood homeowners trust FixHome+
Roman, FixHome+ founder & handyman
Meet your Highwood handyman
Roman handles Highwood jobs. 10+ years on NW Chicago suburbs homes. The older housing stock here means door frames shift, caulk cracks, and plumbing fittings age — Roman has seen every variation and knows how to fix it right the first time.
Serving all of Highwood
FixHome+ covers Highwood (60040) and nearby Highland Park (60035, 60043, 60083), Deerfield (60015, 60093), Lake Forest (60045, 60048, 60061, 60069), Lincolnshire (60069), and Riverwoods (60077).
Over a decade in the same neighborhoods
FixHome+ has worked on properties in the area and surrounding suburbs for more than ten years. Roman knows these houses: how they were built, what fails first, and what seasonal maintenance actually looks like here. This ZIP sits tight between Lake Michigan and the North Shore rail corridor. The houses here were built for permanence — brick, plaster walls, cast iron plumbing in the oldest blocks. Permanence does not mean maintenance-free. It means the work is more specific, the materials less forgiving, and the value of getting it right is higher.
Pricing
Highwood FixHome+ handyman services subscription pricing
Flat monthly plans from $184 — same price across all service areas.
Services
What we fix in Highwood homes
In Highwood, the most common calls are Caulking and grouting, Leak Assessment and Fixes, Gutter cleaning & repair, Plumbing Inspections, and Hanging mirrors, shelves, and artwork. Older homes also see regular Air filter replacement and Dryer vent cleaning as original systems reach end of life. Seasonal work — Exterior walk-around for water or pest signs and Outlet and Switch Replacement — rounds out the year across all ZIP codes in the area.
The local housing profile skews toward older single-family homes with original plumbing and aging exterior seals. That profile drives a predictable service pattern: caulk and grout work in bathrooms, plumbing leak checks around galvanized fittings, and gutter maintenance under mature tree cover. Home Harmony subscribers in this ZIP also take advantage of scheduled walk-arounds before winter and spring — two seasons that do the most damage to older homes in this ZIP code. Getting ahead of those transition points is what separates a well-maintained property from one that costs real money to fix each spring. Roman has completed these same seasonal sequences on Highwood properties for over a decade, which means he already knows what to look for before anything is reported.
See the complete list of 70+ services — from TV Mounting and Installation to Grab Bars Installation — on our full service list.
Process
How it works
What clients say
Testimonials
I live in a townhouse and was happy to find out that my home is serviced by FixHome+. It’s the first handyman service I’ve seen with an app. After downloading, I quickly learned how to manage a task ...
I usually prefer to handle stuff around the apartment on my own, but I still don’t have enough tools for the job yet. And, I’m still working from home too. When I saw an ad for FixHome+, I booked a ...
I used FixHome+ to complete a few tasks at home: repairing a wall, hanging a mirror, installing curtain hooks, replacing two door handles with locks, and replacing old outlets. The assigned worker ...
Comparison
FixHome+ vs. the other options in Highwood
Local handymen in Highwood can be skilled, but finding a good one takes two to three weeks, billing is $300–$500 per job, and there's no way to track what's been done or what's coming next. Most handyman referrals in the area start with a neighbor recommendation, move to a week of voicemail tag, and end with a job that gets rescheduled twice before anyone shows up. For a single repair that cannot wait, that process is frustrating. For ongoing home maintenance, it is unsustainable. No record of what was fixed, no plan for what comes next, no accountability when the same problem returns six months later.
Franchise brands are more consistent than a cold Craigslist search. You're still paying hourly, and what you get still depends on who shows up that day. A different technician each visit means every trip starts from scratch — no knowledge of the property, no familiarity with past repairs, no continuity. That inconsistency is especially costly for older homes where context matters: what was patched last spring, which fitting runs slow, where the exterior seal cracks first.
DIY works until it doesn't. The tools add up, the weekends disappear, and half the projects on the list haven't moved in months. A to-do list that has been sitting since fall is not a savings — it is deferred risk. Every month those items stay unfinished, the odds of a small problem becoming an expensive one go up. That is the opposite of maintenance.
FixHome+ is a different structure. One handyman, one monthly price, 12 visits per year, all booked through the app. No scheduling friction, no mystery invoices, no starting over every time something new breaks. Subscribers who switch from reactive repairs to a subscription stop dreading the to-do list. It gets shorter instead of longer.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
60040. We also cover nearby Highland Park (60035, 60043, 60083), Deerfield (60015, 60093), Lake Forest (60045, 60048, 60061, 60069), Lincolnshire (60069), and Riverwoods (60077).
Most new subscribers get their free visit scheduled within 48 hours. All services are booked through the app — subscribers get priority scheduling over one-time calls.
Subscriptions start at $184/month and include 12 visits per year. Non-subscribers pay $125/hour with no trip charges.
Yes. No contract. Cancel from the app whenever you want.
We walk the home, fix a few things on the spot, and put together a maintenance plan for your specific property. No credit card, no commitment.
Handyman rates in the Chicago suburbs run $75–$250/hour, depending on the scope. FixHome+ non-subscribers pay $125/hour. Home Harmony subscribers pay an effective $92/hour with no trip charges.
Look for full-time employees, fixed pricing, and booking that doesn't require a phone call. Contractor marketplaces match you to whoever is available — not necessarily whoever is good.
Standard rates run $100–$150/hour for one-off jobs. Home Harmony subscribers pay an effective $92/hour with no trip fees.
For minor repairs, installations, and regular maintenance, a handyman is faster and cheaper. For larger scopes — kitchen remodeling, major plumbing overhauls — FixHome+ coordinates with vetted local contractors through the app.
Roman, FixHome+ founder & handyman
Service area
Also serving Arlington Highwood neighboring communities
FixHome+ also serves neighboring Highland Park, Deerfield, Lake Forest, Lincolnshire, and Riverwoods — see all service areas.
ZIP 60040 sits at the center of a tight North Shore cluster. If your property is just outside this ZIP, the neighboring pages below cover the same quality of handyman services at the same subscription rate.
Our Mission
Why FixHome+ exists
I spent more than a decade doing handyman work across the NW Chicago suburbs before starting FixHome+. The problem was always the same: homeowners paying $300–$500 for repairs that got bad because they had no one to call before they did. A subscription with one technician and one monthly fee is what he built to change that.
— Roman, Founder and Lead Technician, FixHome+
Your Highwood home's to-do list isn't going anywhere on its own.
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