Another recent job for one of my regular customer. He purchased the house not so long ago and now he is slowly turning his garden around to his liking. This time it was a bit of fencing on the agenda. His neighbour has an old modular concrete garage. You know the type, the one withContinue reading “A very tall fence”
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Floodlight
At home we had an old motion sensor floodlight above the shed door, which was a great help any time I had to get some of my tools out very early in the morning or very late in the evening. But as it was an old halogen unit, it was expected that sooner or laterContinue reading “Floodlight”
Polycarbonate roof
It was a very recent job I finished in Acomb. The customer had two sheds which were joined together with another smaller shed which was set up as an outdoor bathroom. This bathroom shed is only half the width of the other two. The idea was that we build a wooden frame between the largerContinue reading “Polycarbonate roof”
Chimney flaunching
A job I carried out recently in a small village just outside of York. The customer is living in a small cottage and they had problems with water getting into the chimney stack and into the house as well. The chimney stack is shared with their neighbour who also had similar problems. Each chimney potContinue reading “Chimney flaunching”
How to: curtains and blinds
I do quite a lot of curtain and blind fitting, but so far I didn’t have a blog post about this kind of a job for some reason. So here we go and while I worked on this post, I decided that we can turn this into a “how to” post, so you can followContinue reading “How to: curtains and blinds”
Handrail, bannister and spindles. A lot of spindles
It was a straight forward two day job to refresh a staircase and landing by re-painting the handrail, bannister and the spindles. A lot of spindles. Courtesy of another decorating professional I had to start with some heavy duty degreasing as the previous painter used an outdoor paint on the bannister which started peeling off fromContinue reading “Handrail, bannister and spindles. A lot of spindles”
Small fencing project
I enjoyed this bit of work a lot, as I was working in late November but sheltered from the wind and rain so for a change I didn’t turn into an ice cube by the end of the job. When the customer bought their house, there was this small bit of fencing between their garageContinue reading “Small fencing project”
Bathroom grouting
This was just a quick grout repair in the Dringhouses area in York a couple of days ago. The existing grouting started to come out over the years and the client wanted to patch it up the best we could, to make sure water doesn’t get under the tiles causing more damage. So I startedContinue reading “Bathroom grouting”
Door frame repair & paint
This was a tricky job, but for not the reason I thought at first. This was an old wooden entrance door frame and on the bottom of it, the wood started to decay. The door threshold (or sill if you like) was in the worst shape, as the previous installer used pine wood which turnedContinue reading “Door frame repair & paint”
Bathroom beading
One of my regular customer had a new non-slip vinyl bathroom floor fitted earlier this year, but the edges were not finished, we had to find a solution. To start with I had to find the right trims for the floor which were the right colour (anthracite grey in this case) and the right width.Continue reading “Bathroom beading”
Screw it! 