12 January, 2019 | Garden, Roofing
Today I was called out to repair a garage roof, the felt was over 15 years old and had been repaired a few times but had finally been beaten by the weather – probably this summer’s extreme sun had caused more expansion and contraction than usual. The...
20 December, 2018 | General Handyman, Maintenance, Shelving
A couple of little jobs at one of my regular customers’. Fix the chain on one of the spin bikes and install a new cleaning station in the gym’s main studio.
20 December, 2018 | Plumbing
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...
20 December, 2018 | Refurbishment
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...
10 December, 2018 | Carpentry, General Handyman
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...
