Household
Maintenance
 When the roof leaks or the
water heater won't heat water or the paint is peeling, you
need reliable and reasonably priced workers. A
recommendation from a friend is usually a first choice.
If you call one of the agencies listed here, they may
also be able to help you. Call the Employment Services
listed in this book. Sometimes workers in the Home Health
Care section do household work, shopping and meal
preparation. Check with the Home Health Care listings.
The classified ads in the paper and the phone directory
give you numbers to call for prices. Sometimes Information
and Assistance at the Senior Center can help.
Your church might also be able to help locate a reliable
handyman to oil the hinges and dig the flower bed.
If you receive SSI, you may be eligible for in-home
supportive services through the welfare department.
Don't give up! Keep asking and looking till you find
someone.
California Employment
Development Department
1204 E Street
Marysville, CA 95901
530/ 741-4216
Services Provided:
Maintains a listing of people who do home maintenance -
handymen and housekeepers. Ask for references, if available.
Eligibility Requirements: none
Fees or Charges: Dependent upon work to be done.
Home Chore Program
Yuba Sutter Senior Services
530/ 674-2024
Contact Person: Karen Chabiel
Services Provided:
Provides home chores for senior citizens who are not
eligible for welfare based help.Purpose is to help Seniors
stay in own home as long as possible. Services include
housework, grocery shopping and limited meal preparation.
Eligibility Requirements: Based on physical and financial
need where denial of help could lead to out-of-home
placement., 60+ years, not receiving SSI.
Fees: Donations by the hour based on clients' ability to
pay.
In Home Supportive
Services
Social Services Department
Yuba County -- 530 / 741-6471
Sutter County -- 530 / 741-7151
Services Provided:
Wide range of services available to meet individual needs
to assure living safely at home. Services may include house
cleaning, shopping, cooking, laundry and personal care.
Eligibility Requirements:
Must be disabled, over 65 or blind. Unable to live safely
at home. Financially unable to purchase services.
Fees or Charges: Depending on financial need. Either no
charge or portion of costs.
A-Maid-4-U
530 H Street, Marysville, California 95901
530/ 742-4198
Contact Persons: Theresa Vargas
Services Provided:
Bonded janitorial service. This company trains and
supervises developmentally disabled adults, and also employs
non-disabled persons to perform household cleaning and
maintenance chores.
Fees or Charges:
Free estimates, based upon detailed cleaning schedules
determine the charge on each job. Fees are reasonable.
Workers are supervised.
It is not possible to list people who do housework or
household repairs, since these positions require personal
experience with the workers in order to give them a
recommendation. When seeking someone to come into your home,
try to locate a worker who is known to your own friends and
neighbors, or who works for an agency which bonds them or
vouches for them. One way to locate a handyman might be to
call a property management company and find out who does
minor and major repairs on rental properties they manage.
Sometimes these workers have extra time for small jobs.
 Real estate companies often
deal with people who do small repairs. Hardware stores like
Meeks or KimKel, or SBS, Union Lumber or Ray's General
Hardware will know of someone who will perform whatever
repairs need to be done.
FREED may be able to help with
building ramps and installing other safety features. If they
are unable to do the work they will be able to send you to
someone who can.
Fran Brown at the Senior
Center Information and Assistance desk may have additional
names of people who are seeking such employment..
Yard clean-up and hauling is
often found in the Appeal-Democrat want-ads.
There are many landscaping and
gardening resources in the area. Just stop by when the
fellow who does your neighbor's yard is working there and
ask him if he or anyone he can recommend has a little extra
time to do the job you need done. And don't forget that
age-old resource, neighbor children. Ask your paper boy if
he knows anyone who will work and do a good job. And don't
forget to look in the yellow pages under Landscaping.
Window washing is in the
yellow pages, and if you are looking for something and can't
find it in the yellow pages, be sure to check those blue
pages just in front of the yellow pages. They show items
listed by different names. You just might find what you are
looking for there!
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