16 April, 2024 | Bricklaying, Fireplace, Livingroom
My customer wanted to upgrade their fireplace with a new woodburner, this involved a new flue and many other features including the surround etc. I was tasked with lining the back and sides with brick-slips and installing the LED lighting, the rest was done by a HETAS...
21 March, 2024 | Carpentry, Door hanging, Doors, Livingroom, Special projects
For this project the customer wanted to partition off part of a long open living room so that they had an office too. We discussed various solutions and they settled on pocket doors so that they wouldn’t have to deal with the swing space around furniture. As you...
30 August, 2023 | Flooring, Painting, Summerhouse
I spent a couple of days in one of Eastbourne’s quietest gardens painting the interior of a summerhouse, then laying a vinyl floor, the walls needed a little prep as the builder used osb for the finish rather than plasterboard, which could cause damp issues as...
20 August, 2023 | Carpentry, Garden
This little chunky oak bench took around 3 hours to make, reducing a 9″ square beam into 2 halves for the main seat, then machining down the legs and bolting it all together. I can only just lift it! The oak beams were off-cuts from a timber frame building I was...
21 July, 2023 | Garage, Painting
A simple paint job on this garage door near Priory Heights, I sanded the old loose paint off, key up the surface for some quality primer then top coated with a white gloss, a couple of hours work has made it look like new.
