Includes up to 90 minutes for a defined local repair or punch-list visit. Additional labor is $85 per hour, billed in 30-minute increments.
Local services • Owensville • Cuba • Sullivan
Handyman repairs, improvements, and connected systems for real properties.
Start with the work you need now—small repairs, electrical troubleshooting, plumbing fixes, drywall, paint, custom interiors, or planning. Add automation and connected systems when they make the property easier to use.
Owensville-area handyman service
One local contact for repairs, interiors, and useful automation.
Looking for a handyman in Owensville, Missouri? Starlight Lab starts with the practical repair list: drywall, paint, trim, small plumbing fixes, lighting troubleshooting, and finish work. When the project calls for it, the same visit can also map Home Assistant, smart lighting, WLED, cameras, Wi-Fi, or a small-business workflow so the property is easier to operate after the repair is finished.
Serving Owensville, Cuba, Sullivan, and nearby communities.
Send a few photos and the property city. Jamie will help separate a repair, a defined project, and a systems or automation question before scheduling.
Clear local pricing
Fair rates for skilled work, explained before the job starts.
Starlight Lab prices the result and the responsibility—not just the minutes on a clock. These are starting points for ordinary local work; a written scope confirms the actual price, materials, travel, and any required trade coordination.
For electrical and lighting troubleshooting, controls, networks, cameras, WLED, Home Assistant, and other work where diagnosis is part of the value.
For drywall, paint, interiors, epoxy, installations, and larger repair lists, the scope is priced as a project so the customer can approve the work before materials are purchased.
What keeps the estimate fair
Materials are listed separately. Travel outside the core Owensville–Sullivan–Cuba area is quoted before scheduling. Permits, licensed trade work, structural work, and other regulated scopes are identified during the estimate instead of being hidden in the final bill.
Send photos for a written scopeFrom the room to the operating system
The wall, finish, wire, camera, light, and dashboard all affect the final result.
We connect the real parts of the building: repaired drywall, clean paint lines, custom finishes, epoxy surfaces, microcontrollers, Raspberry Pi controllers, PoE switches, cameras, LED strips, tablets, locks, thermostats, cloud APIs, and Home Assistant dashboards. The goal is not a pile of disconnected trades. The goal is one finished, understandable space.
- Drywall, painting, trim, repair, epoxy, and custom interior upgrades.
- ESP32 and WLED lighting for signs, scenes, alerts, and ambience.
- Raspberry Pi and small-computer controls for kiosks, GPIO, dashboards, and specialty workflows.
- Camera, network, lock, climate, and power events brought into one owner view.
Starlight Lab
System map + dashboards + bridge logic
ESP32
WLED
PoE cams
Pi 5
Locks
HVAC
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Construction and interiors
Drywall repair, painting, custom interior work, epoxy surfaces, finish upgrades, punch lists, and photo-ready before/after improvements.
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Electrical, lighting, and controls
Fixture additions, lighting circuits, switch and motion-control logic, constant-power corrections, WLED lighting, troubleshooting, and clear documentation—with licensed trade coordination where required.
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Plumbing and property repairs
Small plumbing fixes, fixture and supply-line troubleshooting, utility-area improvements, and practical repair-list work.
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Design and planning drawings
Concept layouts, room planning, measurements, finish ideas, simple architectural-style drawings, and material planning.
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Home automation
Home Assistant dashboards, lighting, locks, HVAC, water sensors, signs, schedules, scenes, alerts, and owner-friendly controls.
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Security cameras
Camera planning, PoE switching, recorder support, coverage notes, remote access cleanup, motion alerts, and network segmentation.
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Business automation
Small-business workflows for power, air conditioning, locks, staff tasks, records, notifications, and daily operating checks.
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Starlight Bridge middleware
Cloudbeds-style webhooks, local Home Assistant events, lock-code workflows, API authorization, audit logs, and customer-specific rules.
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Hospitality systems
Room-by-room operations for small motels and independent properties: locks, HVAC, guest Wi-Fi, TVs, signage, staff dashboards, and owner reporting.
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Networks
Routers, Wi-Fi, guest networks, VLANs, device inventory, IP notes, and recovery documentation.
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Documentation
Readable handoff docs, diagrams, backups, account-boundary notes, and system maps that survive after installation day.
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Specialty controls and dashboards
Field-service dashboards, Raspberry Pi controllers, and specialty controls when the job needs a practical system instead of another vendor subscription.
View work lanesWhat each service means
Not just gadgets: complete operating systems for real buildings.
Construction and custom interiors
Repair and upgrade the physical space first: drywall, paint, trim details, custom features, epoxy surfaces, finish repairs, punch-list cleanup, and practical construction problem solving.
Electrical and lighting work
Lighting circuits, fixture-level additions, switching and motion-control corrections, permanent-power needs, problem isolation, and coordination with licensed trades where code, permits, or risk require it.
Plumbing and property repairs
Start with the practical problem: a leak, fixture, supply line, utility space, damaged finish, or repair-list item. Work is scoped safely and coordinated with licensed trades when local requirements call for it.
Design and planning drawings
Turn an idea into something easier to build: room layouts, measurements, finish direction, simple concept drawings, material lists, and planning visuals. These are planning documents, not stamped architectural or engineering plans.
Home automation
Make the house or building easier to live in and easier to manage: lights by schedule or scene, doors and locks visible in one place, thermostats that follow occupancy, leak alerts, power monitoring, garage/door status, vacation mode, and family-safe controls.
Camera automation
Cameras can do more than record. Motion or person events can turn on lights, notify an owner, mark a dashboard, trigger sirens or chimes, show camera tiles on a wall tablet, or help confirm a door, gate, package, lot, or business entrance event.
Business automation
Small businesses can automate boring operating checks: open/close status, power state, air conditioning setpoints, lock status, sign controls, staff task prompts, room or area readiness, maintenance notes, and records of what happened.
Starlight Bridge
Our middleware service connects cloud software to local systems. It receives approved API data, verifies it, applies business rules, sends safe events to Home Assistant or vendor APIs, and keeps audit logs without exposing private customer data.
Hospitality operations
Small lodging properties can tie booking status, room assignment, door access, HVAC state, no-vacancy signage, TV/IoT networks, camera alerts, and staff dashboards into one supportable operating layer.
Productized systems
When a repeatable need appears, Starlight Lab turns the field workflow into a product pattern: setup checklist, repo-backed docs, safe defaults, pilot path, support boundaries, and deployment notes.
Good first engagements
Start with a walk-through before buying more materials or equipment.
Most useful projects start with inventory: what needs repaired, what needs finished, what equipment exists, what accounts own it, what talks to what, what should be separated, and what needs an owner-friendly dashboard.
Typical deliverables
- Network and device inventory
- Repair and finish-work punch list
- Electrical and lighting scope map
- Before/during/after photo set
- Camera or Wi-Fi coverage plan
- Home Assistant dashboard outline
- Automation dry-run workflow
- Backup and recovery notes