Emergency water leak

Emergency water leak

I had a call from a landlord this week asking to fix a water leak in an out-building. Fortunately there was enough pipe accessible to cut off the section with the hole and cap it with a stop-end I happened to have with me. I returned the day after to put another...
New shed roof

New shed roof

This shed roof was leaking as the felt was completely dead, I stripped the old material off and all the nails, but it needed some new edges beneath to hold it all together, once these were screwed on I stapled a sheet of heavy duty polythene over it and then tacked on...
A Landing Floor

A Landing Floor

A friend from many years ago spotted my facebook page and asked me to help with a landing floor in his house. I removed, bit by bit, the old floor boards that had been attacked many times by various people over the years and were making many different noises, they...
Repair to gate and wall

Repair to gate and wall

Just finished the repair works to a client’s gate I started a few days ago, the catch post was bolted to the end of a very old wall and it had pulled away. I dismantled it all and dug out some deep footings to concrete a decent new post in completely independent...